Bob and Lynn's Blog: August 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wednesday - August 15, 2012

We're home!!!

We are hoping to complete our blog by Sunday night. We'll be fixing spelling errors :0); adding additional photo's and additional comments. We are happy to be back and getting ready for our next adventure in about 2 months; we're leaving for Key West around the 3rd week of October and will be there until mid-April? when we will start heading back here for the summer!

Stay tuned!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Yamaha place where I got my tires changed

Tuesday - August 14, 2012

We couldn't of found a better place to get our maintenance done! We called the day before and they said they had the size tire we needed and would be able to put it on if we were in town by 4 p.m. We didn't make it in town by 4 p.m. but they said they would get to it first thing in the morning. Now we needed to find a place to stay and figure out how we were going to get me on the bike with everything else on there. David (the manager) said he would drive either me or the luggage on the back of Bob's bike to a hotel near him if we wanted to wait until 6 p.m. and if we didn't mind riding in an older white car. That is me next to the car. We of course had no problem with that and within a half hour we were at the Comfort Inn Suites. We check into the motel and the girl said since it was a Monday and it wasn't busy she was giving us a discount on the room; so instead of paying $130.00 we paid $79.00 for a suite and boy was it sweet! The hospitality was just wonderful there! The following morning I went to get my bike and it was suggested I get a new front tire. I asked if it could be done now and they said yes. While waiting for the tire David told me he was giving me a discount on both tires. He said they ran a special last month and he was giving us that special...he said they hadn't sent out anything for this month as of yet so why not continue the sale! He ended up saving us about $100.00 on the tires! Luckily, we asked for a oil change. My bike had less than a 1/2 quart of oil in it and it was thick and black. We didn't realize we had to stand the bike up to get an accurate reading, we just thought we had to look at the oil gauge! Bob and I will be writing a

"Letter of Appreciation" to the dealership and thanking them for the wonderful service we received thanks to David!

We left around noon hours and drove until 6 p.m. We are about 50 miles from the

West Va. border. We would have gone a little further but a big storm was following

us so we decided to pull over. Hopefully we will be home TOMORROW!!

Monday, August 13, 2012

Bob playing with Little

Sharon and I

Sharon, Me and Mike

Rio, IL

Main St in Rio

Other side of Main St

Flowers at a rest stop along I74

Me in a MC garage waiting for a ride to the motel.

I was hoping to make it home but it just

couldn't happen!

August 13, 2012

We were up and on the road around 9 this morning. We are Indianapolis, IN now. I had to drop my bike off at a garage to get a new tire put on it, it was pretty bald! We are spending the night at a

Comfort Inn Suite and I feel like we're at the Taj Mahal AND it was only $79.00!

Me getting every second of sleep I can before we leave!

Meet Dino! Bob just loved him. He was very

disappointed when he couldn't sit on him!

Don, Paula and me in Davenport, IA

Going over the Mississippi River near Le Claire IA

Sunday - August 12, 2012

Today we left Des Moines, IA and headed for Rio, IL. On the way through we met up with
Don and Paula whom I hadn't seen in 12 years! We had a lot of rain off and on throughout

the day and finally got to Mike and Sharon's around 6 p.m.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Iowa

Fields of dead corn...devastating...

Saturday - August 11, 2012

We left the center of S.D. this morning and drove 447 miles!!! We were on the road

for 9 hours and I am beat up! We're headed to Mike and Sharon's in Rio, IL. and

will be there tomorrow late afternoon.

Friday, August 10, 2012

The campsite is headed into Sturgis

Har-V with Nolan and Chris behind him

Jim and Mike

Wild Bill

Interesting?!?!!

That speck on Bob's windshield is me

riding ahead of him :0)

Friday - August 10, 2012

We were up at 0730 and started breaking down our tent site. We said our goodbye's and then

packed up the bikes and headed West...West??? Yes! We went to Spearfish to drop off

lots of camping stuff at Ross and Randy's. That was so kind of them! Now Bob's bike (and mine) won't be so heavy. After leaving there we started east and I can honestly say I'm ready

to start heading towards home! There will be NO drinking tonight. Hallelujah!!