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May 11, 2005
Leaving the Bay Area
One of the ongoing features you'll no doubt notice about this blog is its tendency to get a few days behind. I am, after all, on vacation. Or so I remind myself in between bickering with family and anxiety about the bike.
To keep suspense from boiling over, I'm putting this placeholder in as I fill out the chronicles of my downtime here in Palm Harbor.
Diana is sitting in a garage up in Hudson sporting a brand spanking new set of tires. Earlier in the day, she got a brand spanking new chain at an entirely different establishment on an entirely different end of the Pinellas peninsula. Said place was out of tires in her size, hence the venue change.
The paranoia I had about the shifting seems for the moment placated by a fresh oil change and the mechanics' assurance that the broken down oil and strain of back-to-back high mileage no doubt induced the sensation of rattly shifting. As to the mysterious 50 miles to a tank rather than 100, hopefully that was a brief function of high throttling and miscalculating the mileage on my trip odometers. We shall see.
Tomorrow I head for the Palm Beach area on the other coast of this state. Miami is off the agenda for now, in attempt to tighten up the courses a bit and reduce stress on the bike. Besides, I'd rather my first trip to South Beach in years not be weighed down with full touring gear and the stress of parking a cantakerous old bike.
More to come from the road soon...
T&D
Posted by Todd at May 11, 2005 11:22 PM