Getting Ready To Go Again

Getting ready to ride again! I'll be pulling out from Spring, Tx Saturday, July 14th.

This trek is the result of the visit to the Hole in the Head Gang in Lovell, WY on the Alaska trip last year. For the unfamiliar, or not-bored-to-death yet set, the blog for that trip is at http://bigmotoride.blogspot.com. (See the July 4th entry for data on the Hole in the Head Gang.)

We're going to get together again and ride the Beartooth to Red Lodge spending a few days in the area checking out the merits of beer, barbeque, bikes, and guitar pickin'.

For the uninitiated, the Beartooth is the highest elevation highway in the Northern Rockies, Hwy296 (west) off Hwy120 and joining to Hwy212 going into Red Lodge, Mt. It's about 69 miles of left and right, and up and up, and beautiful scenery. Further information can be found at: http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2281/stories/47549. Note - the route was discovered by General Sheridan in 1882. Of course, he wasn't sight-seeing; he was looking for Kevin Costner and Mary McDonnell.

I'm currently in the panic stages of planning. Got to get some more bling (can't have enough, you know?), get the bike ready, the head ready (okay...it's ready now!), and determine which way I'm not going to go. The latter refers to the fact that I pick general directions and roads then remain fluid on actual routes. I can't promise when I get up in the morning if I'm going to do what I thought I was going to do last night....can you? Why would you want to? Right now my "head" is thinking Leadville, CO then west and north. We'll see!

So...here we go again.