I spent this weekend with my good friends down in the Dunes by Delta.  60,000 acres of nothing but dunes. 

They call the place “Little Sahara” and it couldn’t be more appropriately named.  They’ve got all these campsites around the edge of the dunes with Running Water and fire pits, it’s a nice setup.  We were lucky enough to have a full toy hauler camping trailer with us, 5 4-wheelers, and a pit bike to play around with all weekend.  I haven’t had so much fun in quite a while.

Now, I’m serious when i say that when i pulled up the first dune, and caught a glimpse of the whole place, my breath got caught away.  I’m not sure exactly what i was expecting…but it wasn’t expecting what i saw.  Sadly i only have a few pictures of the place b/c we were riding so much and so rarely perched somwhere with a view of the place.  But i’ll toss those photo’s up when i can.

Another first of the trip:  You’ve seen all the cartoons when someone get’s wacked so hard they see stars?  Well lucky me, i enjoyed the experience. 

I was wearing a helmet and everything so no worries there.  my hideous visage will remain as it always has.  What happend was this.  It was getting dark, and the subtleties of the dunes are lost in the twilight.  I was riding along with another guy we were there with and we just didn’t see the 2 foot ridge.  I was leading and when i tanked he slamed on his brakes and he just tipped.  I gained my bearings and started riding again for about 3 seconds before i realized that i was seeing stars.   A pretty cool feeling actually.  I gave a cheer of acomplishment. 

It’s not often that you can experience something like that, even less often when you can experience it and no be hurt in any real way.  I thought the moment worth a little “Waaahooo!.”

Soooo….. a good weekend.

sooooo.

I’ll be picking up my bike and driving it home on Saturday.

It’s a low slung raked out chopper. The bike has a ton of potential but isn’t exactly the best thing to look at. I’m trying to get a paint job on this thing as soon as possible so if anyone knows of a place where i can get it painted PLEASE let me know.

Right now the thing looks like i slaughtered a bunch of smurfs.

I’ll attach a picture of the bike tonight.

If you’re checking this with any regularity…which no one, not even myself, does.   So, actually, now that i realize it this post is superfluous.  I was just gonna say that i’m looking for a new theme so i’ll be updating this pretty constantly.  let me know if you have any suggestions.

Once upon a time there was a little boy that was very adventurous and a little reckless of boundaries.

that boy grew up and surprise….he’s me. 

the news that makes me feel so boyish is that i’ve found the bike that i will purchase.  It’s a custom chopper, that i’m getting repainted out of necessity. 

Why am i getting it repainted you ask?  Didn’t i just say it was out of necessity?  To define what necessity means to me  i will simply tell you that it was covered, and i do mean COVERED, with skulls, rotting faces, and gore.  I’ve decided that i frankly haven’t killed enough people to be able to ride something that….what’s the word….shall we say goretastical?

Well right now I just got off the phone with the guy and the bike is mine!!  It’s been hanging around his shop for the past few months an no one would buy it b/c of it’s paint job.  Fortunantly for me the shop owner was too busy with bigger projects to repaint this one so I got a great deal on it.  I’m going to his shop this weekend to help get it all swanked out, dolled up, and ready to ride. 

I’m even toying with the idea of taking it for a few days with the killer skulls and death faces just for kicks before i get it painted.

let me know what you think.