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November 15, 2019
Thanksgiving is when?
And I find myself on the phone with Jennifer and I'm trying to sort out our plans for Thanksgiving. Who's house will she be at and when, etc. All of this. And I'm telling her my plans for a 3 day ride across North America to get back to Colorado and what the forecast is and then she's like...You do realize that Thanksgiving is not this coming Thursday, right? And I'm like...uh...no? Thanksgiving is on Thursday November 28th, not the 21st. And I'm like...DOH! So stupid there aren't words. So, I have another week to kill, it seems.
But then, as I check the forecast, I think that i probably need to get rolling. I look at the forecast for Dallas, Amarillo, Raton (NM), and Denver. It looks like Raton gets nasty on Wednesday. So that means I need to I need to make it to Denver by Tuesday. So, that means Saturday will be riding to Dallas (442 miles). Sunday will be riding to Amarillo (365 miles). Monday will be riding to Denver (431 miles). This gets me home about a day or two before the snow sets in on Wednesday in Raton.
My concern is that, if the weather is nice, I need to be riding, I think, as it's Fall, and the weather can turn pretty bad, pretty quickly, and I don't want to be riding on the interstate on a motorcycle in the middle of a blizzard. Like...no one with any sense would be riding a motorcycle across country in November to begin with. I think I have a small window of opportunity to make it home without dying in a blizzard, so I need to get rolling.
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 15, 2019 at 9:04 AM
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