bigjohnsd
'21 R1250 GS Adv
I hope to ride more and hunt a bit more in "22 but having just spent "Big Buck$" on a new motorcycle I plan to ride the heck out of it.
The first trip at the end of this month is a Combo - Red fishing and motorcycle ride with my buddy HPpants from Lafayette LA to the FJR Florida Winter Gathering in Crystal River FL for a few days and then back. Due to the potential exigencies of winter, I'll trailer to Lafayette, I've been caught trying to make the ride from Lafayette to Spearfish in March once before. Three days in a crappy motel waiting for the roads to clear......
My first hunt will be the last week in March when I take my new pup "Bo" over to a nearby preserve and let him mess with a few chukars and a few pheasants. He is coming along pretty good with his basic obedience, Sit, Come are known but not yet reliable, he's a puppy! When the gun goes off he is looking for something to fall from the sky. The birds and the dummies are still "His" but we will overcome that.
Early April - another motorcycle trip - Abercrombie FJR and I will trailer to Phoenix, stopping along the way to pick up Kip Walker, meet up with SkooterG, and head to Douglas AZ where we will meet up with FrankieD and Mark Bauer. Then the six of us are riding down into Mexico to the Copper Canyon - Google "Batopillas" and "Urique" to see some of the remote places we are headed. Five GS/GSA's and one S10 Yamaha.
After Copper Canyon, I'll head back to Phoenix, change my tires and then head West to Oxnard CA, then ride all the way up CA 1 until it joins US 101 way North, then North to Tacoma WA for a reunion of the Wardroom of the USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16), a ship I served in from 1980-1983. The officers of that "vintage" try to get together every five years or so. I've ridden CA-1 from North to South several times but I've not ridden it South to North.
From Tacoma, I'll ride home arriving around the first of May just in time to fish a little Walleye.
In mid-June, I'll "Saddle Up" again and ride west and north with AKBeemer and his "Spousal Unit" to Dawson City, YT for the "Dust to Dawson" gathering. We plan on riding up the Cassiar and returning via the ALCAN. We plan on stopping in Hyder AK along the way up and spending a night at the Liard Hot Springs on the way back. We will camp if the weather is good and motel or cabin it when wet.
If you want to learn a little about this event check out this link Dust to Dawson - the History is in the first post here- this will be the 28th year. They had to skip 2020 and 2021 due to COVID restrictions.
I plan on being home in July, my local Lions Club has several fundraisers that I want to work in.
August will see SWMBO and I flee the hordes of people attending the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. We usually head for the Bighorns where it is cool, quiet, and peaceful. I might try and catch a trout or two while we are there.
September brings a little more motorcycle riding - An eclectic group will gather in LaPine, OR over Labor Day weekend one last time for "Ray's Last Hurrah", a tribute to a larger-than-life motorcyclist and friend who recently passed.
I plan on being home by September 15th and hope to hunt some Sharp Tail and Prairie Chickens on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands and then a few Ruffed Grouse in the Black Hills before Duck season opens the last weekend in September.
Resident Only Pheasant season for certain is the second weekend in October and then hopefully several weeks of our "real" Pheasant season in October and November.
It looks like a full year for me!
What about you?
The first trip at the end of this month is a Combo - Red fishing and motorcycle ride with my buddy HPpants from Lafayette LA to the FJR Florida Winter Gathering in Crystal River FL for a few days and then back. Due to the potential exigencies of winter, I'll trailer to Lafayette, I've been caught trying to make the ride from Lafayette to Spearfish in March once before. Three days in a crappy motel waiting for the roads to clear......
My first hunt will be the last week in March when I take my new pup "Bo" over to a nearby preserve and let him mess with a few chukars and a few pheasants. He is coming along pretty good with his basic obedience, Sit, Come are known but not yet reliable, he's a puppy! When the gun goes off he is looking for something to fall from the sky. The birds and the dummies are still "His" but we will overcome that.
Early April - another motorcycle trip - Abercrombie FJR and I will trailer to Phoenix, stopping along the way to pick up Kip Walker, meet up with SkooterG, and head to Douglas AZ where we will meet up with FrankieD and Mark Bauer. Then the six of us are riding down into Mexico to the Copper Canyon - Google "Batopillas" and "Urique" to see some of the remote places we are headed. Five GS/GSA's and one S10 Yamaha.
After Copper Canyon, I'll head back to Phoenix, change my tires and then head West to Oxnard CA, then ride all the way up CA 1 until it joins US 101 way North, then North to Tacoma WA for a reunion of the Wardroom of the USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16), a ship I served in from 1980-1983. The officers of that "vintage" try to get together every five years or so. I've ridden CA-1 from North to South several times but I've not ridden it South to North.
From Tacoma, I'll ride home arriving around the first of May just in time to fish a little Walleye.
In mid-June, I'll "Saddle Up" again and ride west and north with AKBeemer and his "Spousal Unit" to Dawson City, YT for the "Dust to Dawson" gathering. We plan on riding up the Cassiar and returning via the ALCAN. We plan on stopping in Hyder AK along the way up and spending a night at the Liard Hot Springs on the way back. We will camp if the weather is good and motel or cabin it when wet.
If you want to learn a little about this event check out this link Dust to Dawson - the History is in the first post here- this will be the 28th year. They had to skip 2020 and 2021 due to COVID restrictions.
I plan on being home in July, my local Lions Club has several fundraisers that I want to work in.
August will see SWMBO and I flee the hordes of people attending the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. We usually head for the Bighorns where it is cool, quiet, and peaceful. I might try and catch a trout or two while we are there.
September brings a little more motorcycle riding - An eclectic group will gather in LaPine, OR over Labor Day weekend one last time for "Ray's Last Hurrah", a tribute to a larger-than-life motorcyclist and friend who recently passed.
I plan on being home by September 15th and hope to hunt some Sharp Tail and Prairie Chickens on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands and then a few Ruffed Grouse in the Black Hills before Duck season opens the last weekend in September.
Resident Only Pheasant season for certain is the second weekend in October and then hopefully several weeks of our "real" Pheasant season in October and November.
It looks like a full year for me!
What about you?