Sunday June 7, Woke up groggy from a late night of cards and bourbon for an early start to a treacherous day. I knew better, Thompson wrote about the hazards of being in bat country and I was looking down the barrel of 500+ miles of pure bat country, driving a truck and a trailer that wants to kill me. So I guess if you are going to do something stupid you might as well be hungover. 12 hours of wasteland called Oklahoma and Texas. Yeah 12 hours later and we are still in Texas. The skies are getting dark, probably from the bats blocking out the skies. So we are hunkering down and pulling the blinds until they pass. Tomorrow ALBQ to meet up with Steph's brother and kiddos, if we survive the onslaught of bats tonight.
Thursday June 4 CRAP! Best way of describing our first day, a long day. We did a shake down ride a week or so prior to this trip and knew things weren't perfect with the truck/trailer combo. We had problems with the handling of the trailer at speeds over 60 mph but thought it was manageable at a lower speed. Well on our shake down ride we had loaded the motorcycles and the generator, but once fully loaded things got worse. Stopped at a Lowes and bought 6 bags of gravel to help distribute the weight better, it was an improvement, but not great. After 8 hours we bought 4 more bags and that was a major improvement. Stayed at Bootheel camp ground in Missouri, the reviews said peaceful and quite. Not sure where that reviewer lives but we are a couple hundred yards from an interstate hwy, maybe the constant sounds of semis through the night was their idea of peaceful white noise. Diamond bound in the morning! Stephanie plans on finding one bigger than the Hope Diamond.
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