Highlights of my latest motorcycle trip. St. George to Yellowstone and back. 1867 miles.
This trip was especially great because Michelle rode her own
motorcycle, a 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan 900.
After spending more than 100,000 miles looking at the back of my helmet,
she decided to branch out and drive her own.
(Just a little side note here….she is a more critical passenger now that
she has driven her own motorcycle. She
now knows how I am supposed to drive….and lets me know when I don’t. Which is quite often.. J
) We had been on a road trip before,
but this was her longest. We were going
to take Parker with us, but he was involved in baseball. Parker made the all-star team and they had
several games, and also the tournament during the week we were gone. We will pick him up again on another
trip. We hated to waste an opportunity
to take a grandchild with us, so Jackson was more than willing to step in and
go along for the ride.
Highlights include:
Kim Wilson and Gail Miller wedding Breakfast in SLC; Driving all the way from SLC to Rexburg,
after leaving about 4:00. Shelle just
kept driving and driving. Jack spent 4
days with his cousins as we toured Yellowstone; taking part in the ordination
of Jason as a new Bishop; taking Jaelynn
and Ben with us again just like old times, and enjoying time with Jason;
Staying one night in Gardiner, Mt…… neat town.
Watching Shelle negotiate the sharp curves of Yellowstone with cliffs on
one side and cars on the other. (She did a great job, and got better and better
as we went along); Driving in the rain from Alpine Junction to Afton, Wy. Shelle did not want to do that, but when she
realized there was really no choice, she did what she has always done….rolled
up her sleeves and went to work. She
drove in the lead so she could go her own speed, and I could turn on my flasher
to protect us from behind. She did a
super job and we made it to Afton with no problem. However, we had a dirt road
to our cabin, which she drove with gritted teeth and white knuckles, but the
cabin we stayed in made it all worthwhile;
driving 371 miles on our last
day….not bad for a Grandpa and Grandma on motorcycles; having Jackson along the
whole way…..he never complained, was supper funny, and applauded Mom on every
hard maneuver, and he loves Jackson, Wy; however, the greatest highlight was
spending time with Shelle, watching her enjoy driving her own motorcycle,
joking back and forth on the C.B, and watching how she loves every little thing
about the whole trip.…..every time I spend time with her, I remember why I fell
in love with her in the first place. How
great it is to share what I have enjoyed doing my whole life……touring on a
motorcycle.
P.S. While in
Jackson, I went to the bathroom and he went into an art gallery. There was a long line, and when I finally
paired up with him again, he started telling me all about how the artist did
all of the paintings and sculptures. I
said “how do you know all of this”, and he took me to the back room, and there
was the artist in his work shop. Jack
said “I ask him”. The artist said” he
sure did…he was very interested in everything….I don’t see that often in one so
young”. Jack and the artist acted like
they were the best of friends.
