HyderSeek Ride Report
I was on the road by 7 AM local time, but there was lots of fog. I found Nichols Honda in Wichita and arrived around 9 AM as planned. They were very gracious and agreed to service my bike on short notice. I picked up some perforated gloves on an impulse that were quite welcome later on during the hot desert afternoons. I had a nice pork chop breakfast nearby and was back on the road headed for Oklahoma by early afternoon. A guy at the shop had said that Route 54 southwest had a lot of trucks and was his least favorite road. I found it OK.
Passing through a small town with a lot of sand on the road, I saw a young motorcyclist down next to his twisted machine. No helmet or jacket was evident. He was prone and motionless on the pavement. There were a half dozen people near him and a woman was cradling his face in her lap. I slowed but did not dismount. I could think of no way to contribute and at that moment those folks did not look real fond of motorcycles.
At Dalhart, Texas I stopped for gas and a McDonald’s break. I had an interesting conversation with a young woman and her daughter. She was a wholesale tree farmer and did some riding with her husband on dirt bikes. They also flew small planes. I never would have thought of Texas as tree farm country. In any event, this was a very different life style than my high-pressure suburban scramble back home. At this point, I decided to cut across the northern portion of New Mexico instead of taking the interstate highway to Gallup. I glanced at a map and entertained the wishful notion that this would save some miles and time.
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