All is well just got back from Portales/Lubbock visiting family and having dinner with some friends. I rode to Portales to be with family Friday night and took off the next day to meet up in Lubbock, TX for dinner. I ended up leaving late from Portales and ended up being 30 minutes late. It actually worked out because we were supposed to meet at Joe's Crab Shack but they were so busy (2 hr wait) we moved to Johnny Carinos down the road. By the time I arrived, they had just seated us. Had a great dinner then found out only one of the riders was running all the way home so we hooked up and headed for the barn. We left Lubbock at 21:30 and arrived in Albuquerque at 02:30. It took us 5 hours to travel 330 miles with a 30 minute stop for fuel in the middle (I wanted a cup of coffee). We averaged 66 mph not bad considering we were not in a hurry. My buddy that rode back with me did a saddle sore 1000 he traveled 1033 miles in 20 hours, not bad considering he made a 1 hour stop in Turkey, TX and 2.5 hour stop in Lubbock.
My goals this year is to do the Smoke Chasing Tour again but this time hitting BBQ location in my home state and just kicking back riding in New Mexico. Family wanted me to stay close to home this year so that's the goal. I'll probably go for a ride every other week, just enough to keep the juices flowing.
Well someone gave me a shout and off we went riding the high road to Taos New Mexico. We stop for lunch at a nice restaurant in Chimiyo. Afterwards we looped around through the Jemez mountain range stopping at my favorite watering hole Los Ojo's in Jemez Springs. It was a nice ride running about 200 miles and the weather was perfect. When we started it as about 46 degrees and around 65 when we stopped for lunch. The V-Strom acted up a little at high altitude 7700 feet, it was struggling to start like it was starving for fuel. Need to figure out what happened because we I made it home I didn't have an issue starting it.
I still have not picked up my Smoke chasing information so I'm a little behind.
Well until next time ride safe.
