Riding the world

Forgot to add these two photos of the quality of the air from the fires as you can see in the background mountains are almost invisible And reminiscent of the south from the last century These two female firefighters are soliciting donations from everybody who goes through the toll which I’m perfectly OK with because you don’t have to stop and you don’t have to pay and they haven’t asked me all three times that I’ve seen this, however the first two times it was an actual roadblock.  They blocked  the road, stopped all the cars and went up to your window basically extorting money from you which I’m definitely not OK with but as I said they didn’t ask me and I didn’t see them ask any motorcyclists so I guess they figured it was too much hassle for a motorcyclist to get to his money and hold up all the traffic The dog who ate all the rest of my fries after I was done at a roadside stand View from my restaurant for dinner Literally, the crappiest rock I’ve ever seen and I mean tha...

 Passed a guy on a bicycle today going the other way. He was pulling a trailer and when I looked in it, he had his dog in there looking pretty pleased with himself getting towed around.   The indigenous woman’s name was Josefa Raplauken.   Passed through a little town where I saw some guy who looked like he was homeless, down and out because he was hanging his head so I asked the lady inside the grocery store and she said yeah he’s homeless so I bought two waters one for me, and one for him, went over to him and got the odor from him peeing his pants.  It was a little much but I offered him the water anyway and he actually turned it down. He was too drunk,probably wanted another drink.   Have decided there must be three kinds of farmers here - the first kind that is mostly like American ones in that when they cut hay they have a bailer that wraps it in either white pink or green plastic to keep it dry and from molding, and the average one of which we still ...

Stopped where cops were checking papers to ask about next gas station Told them I’d never seen cops on small BMWs before Next thing I know they’re letting me take a picture of them and sitting on their bikes. All the cops here are very nice as well as helpful, in fact, that goes for everyone, people are super nice, friendly, and like to talk and ask questions,  pretty much no problems over all except for two minor disputes over Booking.com reserved prices.  Haven’t felt any safety concerns at all. BnB family I stayed with  , Didn’t ask them what the second one was but……. First multiple animal sign I’ve ever seen Looks like a mountain lion, some kind of badger, a  “I don’t know what” and a snake sign. Sign says wildlife crossing Great restaurant service and another first When the waiter asked me if I wanted lemon for my fish, I said yes and he brought fresh squeezed lemon juice  Another instance of the bike is better, because these half a dozen old Volkswagens, i...