Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the road again.

I ain't seen or talked directly to this woman since about 15 years when they left San Antonio, tho I've been in regular contact with her husband. With some people, you just resume the conversation where you left off like it was yesterday. Better yet, her and my buddy raised two sons, so she's used to being around guys but yeah, I gotta watch my p's and q's.

Anyways more photos to close out yesterday. I found a heavy 100% cotton 3X sports shirt at the Mennonite WalWart in Seminole on sale for $5. It works, an outerlayer of cotton really does block the sun, hold sweat and provide evaporative cooling. Makes me look like..... something or other...... but it works, and still beats the crap out of spandex.... besides who's gonna mess with a guy dressed like this? And who would guess that guy was packing a container of 9mm bear spray if'n they did?



Scenic view north out of Seminole.... I believe this is approaching Seagraves, when ya see a watertower on the horizon in only about 45 minutes to an hour you'll be at their convenience store IF they got one. Quite a few names with no towns out here, but I ain't yet come across a watertower with no town attached.



This place has seen better days. Ruins on the Plains always seem like they must have sad stories attached.



I was forty miles away in Brownfield when I realized my buddy's wife was still at Tech, good thing too, I was gonna end the day at Wolffield which is now the outer band of Lubbock, and not the good side from what I seen. I did come across this tho.....



The last twenty miles out of the eighty I was racing a storm cell in, seems to happen a lot up on the Panhandle, keeps you motivated at least, anyways on this occasion I won. Tremendous sunset under it getting into Lubbock.



The last five miles took me 90 minutes, Hwy 62 in turns into a de-facto interstate through town, with no access road to ride in so me and google was on our own. Didn't help any them inner-city prairie dogs in those urban prairie dog ghettos was calling me names. The herds of jack rabbits were quite graceful tho.

On this whole thing so far I am a tad bummed out I never got into Hobbs, NM, just about three miles from the State Line where I was. The first time I was through Hobbs was more'n thirty years ago, I was on a motorcycle, the sign out front of the Dairy Queen said "WE HAVE BANANAS TODAY"

lol

Frisby kitty

Re-constitute with water and add ramen noodles.

If ya got water....if not you can bear grylls it with your own urine

IMHO, if ya ain't squeezing you're water out of elephant dung, why bother?

Sounds like a porno I watched once..

Hey tks,

Biggest problem I'm gonna have is keeping momentum and getting the heck out of Dodge, fer example my buddy and his sons are at a place called Sealy Lake catching fish right now

Obviously there's some serious hill climbs out there, and obviously I'm on a heavy bike which will cut down on my average miles/day. At this point a Great Falls, Old Faithful, Cody, Great Falls triangle circuit looks to be about 750 miles, which means I'd only have to average 25 miles/day.

I once rode a bicycle from central Georgia to Steamboat Springs Colorado. Great way to see the great continent.

Have fun and be safe!

Sir, it comes out over the years that there ain't a whole lot you haven't done, congrats


I will say that riding a bicycle across somewhere makes the world seem a whole lot smaller, not larger.

Glad to see you decided to take my advice after all.

Birdie you got that Registered sex offender look down with that new Walmart outfit😂😂👍. Might want to change outfits when you meet your friends wife

At least vehicles see you better when riding
And “Cotton ain’t rotten” in desert climate

We give you a lot of schit but you’re getting it done. Not many on here, me included, would do what you’re doing on your bike. I did the Seattle to Portland ride years ago but on a much lighter bike in one day.


Safe travels

I forgot to mention the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, right up your alley. You could do the Ulm Pishkun and L&C center in a day, the Russell Museum would take another half day. I think given your interests that the Ulm Pishkun and L&C center would hold more interest for you.

drover

Birdwatcher this is a great thread. Tell Pal to FOAD. If ya dont want to I will Pal FOAD. The man has done more on this thread than you could ever do or done. If ya have done more or know 1/2 of what your talking about lets see it. Safe travels Birdwatcher.

I know whenever my wife needs help I fish Seeley and ask my single, creepy bicycling friend to escort my wife 1,000 miles so I can keep fishing.

Water tower = town.

Don’t show the missus my photo, I hate it when that happens, it’s just awkward.

l-2 GFY

birdie, in the spirit of good humor, you're really rockin' the male version of this:



Really enjoyed the pics of the day.

Carry on.

Geno

Hey tks, pretty sure those Humbolt Honeys would do me, 'long as I didn't talk politics. Bird watching was always the charm, I'd get laid even when I wasn't looking to get laid.

But bear in mind what I wear ain't merely affectation, or just affectation, it works.

Down time today, just hanging around the Texas Tech campus which is mostly quiet for the summer. Go out by 6:30am and went looking for the University Strip, all the funky college restaurants, clothing stores and coffee shops. Didn't find one yet, just a Starbucks on a highly commercialized high-dollar setting, which is unfortunately how colleges seem to be going nowadays (ex. Guadalupe adjacent to UT in Austin and the Northgate Strip adjacent to A&M). So for a bit now I'm in the Starbucks and tho an old labrador too old to retrieve, my coed detectors are still going off big time "beep....beep....beep....beep".

I mean sure their conversations seem as inane as they've ever been, but we don't care because they're hot.

Anyways I'm gonna keep this thread going into Montana so I don't get up there and lose a week just hanging out with friends.

Ruminations on getting run over..... the biggest threat on these things.

It would suck to end the thread that way (for some here at least) and I'm happy to say a lot of friends and relatives would prob'ly be devastated, 'specially the grandkid.

This is the way it works in Texas: If I'm on the roadway at all its either because there ain't a shoulder or if there is the chipseal is too rough to ride efficiently.

I will bail off the asphalt in a heartbeat, doesn't matter if I have the legal right-of-way (which I often do).


Straight road, I hear 'em coming maybe a quarter to a half mile back. If its a four lane highway and two vehicles side by side approaching from the rear I will bail off of the roadway because I know the guy in the right hand lane maybe has nowhere to go. Same thing if its just a two lane highway and there's traffic going in both directions.

But here's a scenario which happens four or five times a day....

Flat open road, I'm on the white line or close to it for a reason, vehicle approaches from behind, right lane. As he closes in I'm watching in my mirror, fugger doesn't give an inch, if anything moves right, passes so close like I could reach out and touch them.

Pi$$es ya off no end. I wrenched my left rotator cuff in the days before the trip else I'd raise my left arm and flip 'em the bird as they pass, then as they move away I'm flipping them the bird high and proud, fugg you AND the horse you rode in on. Once I was ON the shoulder and a guy in a tanker truck crosses the white line and hits the rumble strip right next to me as he passes.

I gotta quit getting PO'd. First off, if they're texting, they might not have seem me at all. Otherwise, even if they were screwing with the bicycle idiot on purpose, what purpose does it serve to flip 'em the bird? Like I really wanna escalate out there on the side of the road.

Gotta revert to my public school mindset; dont get PO'd, never escalate.

Rolling north in an SUV.

Man, after you’ve done bicycles, motorized vehicles sure re a lame way to cross the Continent, bicycles make places seem closer, motor vehicles just disconnect you.

Reverse ho.

You'll be back in the saddle before ya know it, Mike!


Speaking of which... Is she good lookin'?

We won't tell....