Interesting People

It is Monday, July 19, 2010 and we are at Jonathan & Lynne’s house in Chandler, AZ. Jonathan is Jim’s brother. I’m watching “Touch by an Angel” and thinking about some of the people that we met while at rest stops. There was the one biker that we met on Tuesday, July 13th and I already quoted him earlier. He said
“Keep it in the wind and on two wheels” Then we met a guy name Pete in Deming, New Mexico. People usually just walk right up to us and start a conversation by asking where we are from or where we are going. Well, Pete appeared to be about late 60ish and told us that he did a trip of 13,000 miles on a smaller bike. He went to the tip of Argentina. Jim estimated our total trip to be about 8,000 miles. Then there was another guy that was telling us about a trip that his friend was in. He said that they rode from Florida to Alaska and the first person there received ½ million dollars. It cost $1,000.00 to enter and it took them 7 days. His friend was number 37 out of 1500 riders. Today, Jim went to an area Harley Davidson dealer to have the Harley serviced and to purchase a long sleeve shirt for me. (Sun poison on my arms) While at the shop, he met other people who also rode from Florida to Alaska. Jim took a picture of the Banner that read.

HOKA HEY

. . .but not today

Key West, Florida to Homer, Alaska

13 days, 9,100 miles. Finished 115 & 116 out of 683

E.B. Chester & Travis Metcalfe. June 20 to July 3, 2010

There was also a guy name David that I ran into coming out of the rest room. He wanted to ask a few questions and I answered. He informed me that he would only try riding coast to coast on a Gold Wing Honda.

A Honda, yea right.

These were only a few of the many interesting people that we met and I am sure that we will meet many more.