Legends by Lynn: July 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

All We Want To Do Is RIDE!

Day #8
Date: Friday, July 31, 2015
Departure: Troy, New York (good riddance!)
Destination: Uncasville, Connecticut
Miles: 420

HOW OUR DAY STARTED

Interactive Activity For the Day

Notice the Duck Dynansty guy in the back?

BEAUTIFUL!

But a little disappointed because.....

Not One Moose Spotted

Not one covered bridge discovered

But

Check out all of the places we have been today!

BUT ALAS!

MORE PROBLEMS

We checked and replaced all of the relay wires.

We wiggled and jiggled all of the harness wires.

Our efforts took one and one half hours but...

It worked!

It started!

We don't know what we did?

But it worked!

We hope.........!

At any rate, the GPS started working

and

The trailer tail-lights started working.

So that was a good thing.

However, we did have a little hiccup in Concord, New Hampshire:

We had stopped for a little break.....

But when Lynn tried to start his bike....

It didn't work.....

Again!

So disappointing!

But.....

He looked down and his

kill-switch was on!

So embarrassing!

But so happy!

JUST FOR FUN LET'S LOOK AT THE PAST

Our Boy Jack - Grandpa's Co-Pilot

When Jack's mother was the co-pilot on their trip to Chicago.

Grandpa said she was the best co-pilot because she would

read the maps and know every exit and be familiar with every route.

No GPS in those days!

Jack says,

"Yea...but my mom has a GPS in her head!"

Our Little Jon - Not So Little Now

Jason's Co-Pilot

Our Boy Ben - Now an Accomplished and Excellent Motorcyclist!

Big Sur 2007 with Ben and JaeLynn

LYNN'S JOURNAL

Highway 7

Bennington, Vermont

Brattleboro, Vermont

Keene, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire (State Capital)

Highway 4

Kittery, Maine

Highway 95 South

Massachusetts

Highway 495

Around Boston, Massachusetts

Highway 295

Providence, Rhode Island

Uncasville, Connecticut

Tonight's Motel

Uncasville, Connecticut

Tomorrow we must tackle

The Bronx

New York City!

Thursday, July 30, 2015

THE PICTURES TELL IT ALL....

Day #7

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015

Departure: Farmington, New York

Destination: Ahhh.....Troy, New York

Miles: 210 (Arggg!)

RAIN!

See rain gear

Interactive viewing - find photo bomb
Interactive viewing - find Jason smiling

NOW THE REST OF THE STORY

Jason has struggled, since the beginning, to maintain his throttle control. He has had to squeeze the handle grips really hard to maintain speed. So when they spotted the Honda service center in Troy, New York they took a quick exit to purchase new hand grips.

The purchase of new hand grips was successful.

When they returned to their motorcycles to continue on to Vermont......

Grandpa's big yellow Goldwing wouldn't start.....

They tried everything.....

Dead - Zilch - Nothing!

However.......

They were parked 25 feet from a Honda Service Center.

Now how lucky was that?

The mechanic was
Out To Lunch

However.....

He was standing behind the counter

But......Out To Lunch

And.....

He wasn't going to help them until his lunch was over at 1:00 pm

It was 11:30 am

At precisely 1:00 pm the mechanic wheeled the bike back into his shop.

After and hour or two of waiting he sent out the first bid of $3,000 to repair the starter motor.

Jason became very "Presidential" and said, "It is not the starter motor".

30 minutes later.....

It was a $178 bid to clean the dirty connections.

Possibly a result from the torrential downpour of the morning.

Too late to travel any more today!

Grandpa booked everyone into the Hilton Garden Inn!

All the boys were happy!

Especially Ben.......

He had a computer with great band-width!

VIDEOS FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE

Really Bad Rain

Monday's Rainy Drive

This is How Wet is Was

Us and the Semi Trucks

Beautiful Roads

A Back-roads Town

Mighty Mississippi

Mighty Mississippi Again

Freeway (Okay divided highway)

Corn Fields

Palmyra Temple

Sacred Grove

Joseph Smith's Log Cabin

VIDEOS BY REQUEST

Ben Diving

Jack Diving

Jon Diving

Jon Diving Again

Fun Photo of the Day

A car just Jack's size

Go Pro Photos

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF OUR TEENAGE BOYS

Day #6
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Departure: Cleveland, Ohio
Destination: Farmington, New York
Miles: 298 measly Harley-rider miles...not so becoming for Honda-rider miles

One pounder (see the quarter for scale?)

SERIOUSLY?

Biscuits and Gravy potato chips?

PLUS.....

Ben ate

One foot-long Subway for lunch

A giant pretzel and

and a good portion of two cinnamon rolls

Jase's Journal

Grandpa and I have hit our hamburger quota!

Neither one of us can even say the word, "hamburger"!

Perhaps Ben has reached his quota as well?

Jon orders salads and vegetables
Jack orders steak

Jase's Journal

It was hard to get up this morning;

Our motel beds were doubles and we have learned that big guys in a double bed do not work.

Ben and I have a wrestling match every night trying not to touch each other

but to keep possession of the blanket.

The 14-year olds can sleep anywhere they can find because they don't have to get up and stay alert and drive all day. They just sleep their life away on the back of the motorcycles anyway.