Bow Tie Tour

What a full day…
Shortly before 8AM we woke up to the sounds of another motorcyclist walking into the house, suited up in almost full gear, it turned out that we shared riding styles and safety concerns… Cool guy!

By 8:30AM we were all ready to roll out, 2 – Yamaha FZ1’s, 2 – Ninja 250’s (Our students for the day our new buddy Josh on his Honda 600RR, and one amazingly smokey Dodge Diesel pickup truck.

After a bite to eat at Panera Bread company (Cinnamon Crunch Bagels ROCK!) we set out to find some good curvy roads… Did we ever! After a couple of runs, dragging knee and showing the guys how to properly get off their bikes to keep them from continuing to drag their pegs, we headed back to the house so that Ethan and I could rush North to Des Moines.

We stopped once for food, twice for fuel and once to take a picture of a giant 8 ball. All day, it was around 106 degrees… HOT! I drank over 4 liters of water in those short hours, probably could have downed even more.

Me, with a HUGE 8 Ball! (Everyone should paint their water tower at least as cool as this).

The “Mighty Melt” which had excellent food (Somewhereville, MO)

Shortly before we arrived in Des Moines, I started experiencing some really weird riding characteristics, at first I thought it was just the wind, coupled with the added weight on the rear shock, but I quickly realized that I was REALLY low on air pressure. I topped it off about 40 miles South of Des Moines and by the time I’d helped us get thoroughly turned around in the city, it was back down to where it was dangerously low (Scary feeling!).

Another top of and a couple of dozen more wrong turns and we’d found our way to our long time friends, the Sorenson’s home… A delicious lasagna dinner and we were out the door to downtown Des Moines for a show at the Muse.

“Envy Corps”

From the Muse we took a quick ride over to Emily’s favorite “Spot”… The steps of the Capitol building. She said she’d only been harassed by the Police once, and that was at around 3AM, so we figured we were safe

Gave me the chance to get this cool shot though:

Still working to catch ya’ll up… Riding through to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or Montana tomorrow, weather permitting.