Photos from July

I had an interesting month of driving mostly in the mid-west with a few
trips back west. I spent a little more than a week as a contract driver for Walmart making local deliveries to Walmart stores centered around north central Illinois - Sterling to be exact. Just across the street from the Walmart center was a horse stable which included this very friendly and confident spotted horse, among others.

I went as far north as Lake Geneva, WI.

Surely you've seen these before.
But have you ever looked closely at the instructions?

Down to Bloomington, IL a couple of times where this grainary has been converted into an indoor climbing gym. What a great idea.

Up and west to Davenport, IA.

And had almost 20 hours of time off-duty in the actual town of Sterling and ended up walking about a half mile through the thigh-deep rock river to see what a couple fisherman were catching.

In the last couple weeks I finally got back west and had a full 34 hours off, my first in six weeks, in Cheyenne which had some crazy weather.

I met this kid at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration. He said the bike will do 60mph but you have drag your feet to stop.

After making it back to Kansas City for a very hot night (I really like that city), I headed back west through CO and UT.

Spent a night in Las Vegas and had so much fun riding my little bike up and down the strip, maneuvering between all the stopped traffic to the head of the line and then sprinting off at the green light to the next red. So hot out that my eyes were burning - at ten oclock at night.

Finally the long-awaited photo of my bike (taken by a couple of German students spending a month over here perfecting their English).

I finished July in Fresno CA to a fabulous sunset and a relatively cool night in a truckstop parking lot that doesn't smell like urine!