STORIES
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48 State Adventure - Summer 2015

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ID - MT - WY- SD - ND - MN - NE - IA - WI - IL - IN - MI - OH - PA - NY - VT - NH - ME - MA - RI - CT - NJ - DE - MD

HALF WAY!

WV - KY - VA - TN - NC - SC - GA - AL - FL - MS - LA - AR - MO - KS - OK - TX - NM - AZ - CO - UT - NV - CA - OR - WA

(48 STATES WAHOO!)

TOTAL MILES 8, 997

#1(435) - #2(490) - #3(455) - #4(540) - #5(375) - #6(298) - #7(210) - #8(420) - #9(390) - #10(498) - #11(305) - #12(59) - #13(403) - #14(530) - #15(556) - #16(496)

#17(486) - #18(572) - #19(607) - #20(382) - #21(490)


Saturday, August 8, 2015

NAME THAT MOVIE

Day #16
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2015
Departure: Winfield, Kansas
Destination: Raton, New Mexico
Miles: 496

NAME THAT MOVIE
(Answers at the bottom of the today's blog)

A. "Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma"
B. "I couldn't be happier if I was twins"
C. "Don't move! If ya do he turns on the windshield wipers."
D. "I don't need a map....I have a GPS".
E. "Where's a map"!

AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO 
WITH TODAY'S BLOG?


OOOOOKLAHOMA....where the wind comes rushing through the plaines



ROUTE CHANGE



Ashland, Kansas
Highway 160
65 mph
No traffic
 Almost to Oklahoma and Texas thanks to our trusty GPS



BRUTAL
KNARL-EE
OUCH!
SQUISH!
SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!


"WHERE YOU FROM?....OH....HE'S DEAD"



MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS
of GRASSHOPPERS


GRANDPA COULDN'T BE HAPPIER IF HE WAS TWINS
He didn't have to travel through West Texas
Only in Texas for 5 minutes to get our receipt!
Texline, Texas





WE SAW THE RAIN COMING
BETWEEN CLAYTON AND RATON, NEW MEXICO
 BUT DECIDED NOT TO STOP AND PUT OUR RAIN GEAR ON
BECAUSE WE WERE 45 MILES FROM OUR MOTEL


BUT WE HAD NO IDEA THAT IT WOULD LAST 20 MINUTES AND IT WOULD FEEL LIKE MARBLES HITTING US



AND THAT WE WOULD GET DRENCHED AND COULDN'T SEE THE ROAD
AND THAT THE TEMPERATURE WOULD DROP FORM 
93 degree dry heat to 63 degrees cold heat in 2 seconds
AND THAT WE WOULD BE FREEZING!


BUT ONE GOOD THING HAPPENED......

ALL OF THOSE GRASSHOPPERS GOT WASHED OFF THE BIKE AND OFF BEN'S LEGS
INTENSE!
SUPER DOOPER CAR WASH!
.....JUST HAD OUR WINDOWS DOWN WAS ALL!


GRANDPA'S JOURNAL
Winfield, Kansas
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
Hugoton, Kansas
Elkhart, Kansas
Boise City, Oklahoma
(Boise made us think of that one movie - Item E.)
Backroads of Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico
Textline, Texas
Clayton, New Mexico
Raton, New Mexico
(Prounounced "Rat-On")

JACK & JON ROUTINE
1.  We pull up to the motel to check in.
2. Jack and Jon are off the bikes with suitcases in hand.
3. Once the key is issued that are off to the room like a shot!
4. They claim their corner of the room and change into swim trunks.
5. They are in the pool before we can leave the lobby, get back on our bikes and park them by our room.  



ANSWERS

A. 

B.

C.

 D.


 E.
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