This morning turned out to be another great day…. But it started in a very weird way!
First, I read the article my buddy Bob Peacock posted about a woman he knew who died in a head-on crash with a truck while on her motorcycle.
I have to tell you that things like that weigh heavy on a guy with his ‘reason-for-living’ and 80lbs of luggage behind him with over 6,00Kms still to travel…. Fatalistic thinking is a byproduct of the challenge of motorcycling… Controlling thoughts like that can sometimes be daunting… especially the longer you are on the road.
On another note….
One thing I didn’t tell you was that when I finally left Winnipeg, three weeks ago, there was a great big black crow on the hotel above my bike… just looking at me as I packed my bags…
It was a little eerie because the bird just stared at me… Was it an omen? I felt like I was in an Edgar Allen Poe story!... “Caw!... Never Again!”…Quothed the Raven.
This morning when the Wu and I started packing the bike, above us … looking down on me…. was the biggest black crow I’ve ever seen….
It was at least 2 feet in height and I’ll bet it weighed 15 lbs… It was huge!
It kept Cawwing at me from the roof…. Staring right at me!.. I took a couple pics and the it flew down beside my bike and looked up at me and kept cawing… Like it was trying to tell me something…
It was like a scene from a Lassie episode…
Bark… Bark!
What is it Lassie boy?
Bark… Bark!
Is Timming down the well again?
Bark…Friggin…Bark!!... Duh!
Well, the crow kept circling my bike and looking at me and cawing…. Loudly!
He wouldn’t let me pat him but he let me get about 4 inches from him…
When it was time to leave…. He physically got in front of my wheel and started pecking on it like he was warning me about something….
Good thing I’m not supersticious or I would have parked the bike then and there and taken the day off!
Soon we were of headed to Utah and the Salt flats…
Guess what…. We nearly ran out of gas again just beyond the flats… Rolled into a station on fumes… This time, didn’t have to steal/buy gas surreptitiously.
Relaxing at the Gas Station
Then we went by the Salt Flats where land speed records are set
The flats in the distance
There was a time when the Wu could climb up on a Dog... I mean Dino like this.
I have pics! *_*
We checked into a Quality Inn in Rock Springs ….Got a nice room with a King size bed.
Had trouble with the card keys getting in…. and that was just the start of our trouble…
I go to get on the internet to see that the hotel wifi is down… Phone the front desk and they say that it will be repaired in a timely manner… the following afternoon when the Wu and I will be 500 miles east of here….Nice!... This is why this post is late.
It was over 80 degrees in the room and I had trouble getting the little air conditioner in the wall working.
Then!.... The Wu is putting some wine into the fridge only to discover the last 2 visitors had left two vials of ‘Personal Lubricant’ behind…..Speaking of behind…. These were of the BEHIND variety! EEEEEWWWW!
Sitting on the bed, I looked at the Wu and said, You realize this time yesterday there was a couple Fun-Boys right here playing ‘Captain Rear-Spear!...[ As Jerry Seinfeld would say: Not that there’s anything wrong with that!...lol]… and she nearly gagged. (>_<)
Then I notice the TV clicker is not working… I open the back to see that somebody has crushed the 2 batteries…. Another Fun-Boy game? I wondered…. If so, 2 thoughts come to mind:
1) That ain’t right!.... and
2) EEEEEWWWW!
I get 2 new batteries from the front desk and return to my room to find that my key card is not working…. And neither is my TV clicker even with the new batteries!
So let’s recap: Bad keys, hotter than heck, no wifi, an inventory of recreational rectal juice, bent batteries and a broken TV clicker………. We changed rooms!
This one had a loud Beep…Beep… Beeping noise when I entered… It was the alarm clock going off. I fixed that… The room was cool enough… that was good….Better check the TV.
I go to push the on button…. But there is NO FRIGGIN ON BUTTON!... Just a hole!.... But if you are brave enough to stick your finger in the hole [Another Fun-Boy Game?]… providing you can manage not to touch any electricity…. The TV comes on… and the clicker works….. Which is when the air conditioner STOPS WORKING!
I see a hotel worker and say, Boss! My AC isn’t working. He takes the grill off and the whole thing is iced up frozen! You’ll have to wait for this to melt, he said, and then don’t put it back on high cool…
He left… no doubt thinking he had satisfied yet another valued customer!
I took the hair dryer and tied it to the unit and ran it for about an hour till the ice was melted….
AC came back on as we slumbered off to sleep…. And then the AC Freakin Froze Over AGAIN!... so we spent the night outside our covers dying from the heat!
It’s now Thursday morning and thankfully we will be saying goodbye to this rundown Quality Inn Dump!
Don’t worry… Life is still good!
Stay tuned.
MB11
Very "enter"taining post and nothing worse than trying to sleep when it's too hot. Well, after that ordeal, maybe you both deserve a higher end hotel for your next sleep....did I say "end" lol
ReplyDeleteDD thanks for the chuckles for both Kat and I!