Sunday, June 17th (Father's Day)
The sun comes up very early in Idaho...the light woke me up at 4:45 am, went to bed at midnight. We are really in for a challenge to cope with all the daylight and get enough sleep on this trip.
I owe some credit for this adventure to my father. He brought home a Honda 65 when I was in grade school or Jr. High. After endless trips up and down the street, I fell love with two wheels. Ever since I have enjoyed owning, working on, and riding motorcycles! Thanks Dad
What calls us to ride?
 I got this from the back of the Aerostich catalog:
"There is a reason to ride motorcycles.....Motorcycles and scooters are personal mobility truth- tools.Good for everything going on inside of us, and for the community and our planet."
This is Chuck Swindoll's take on it from his book, Laugh Again. "It's (motocycle riding) about forgetting all the nonsense that every single moment in life is serious.It's about breaking the thick and rigid mold of predictability. It's about enjoying a completely different slice of life
whereI don't have to concern myself with living up to anyone else's expectations or worry about who thinks what. It's about refusing to live my life playing one note on one instrument in one room and finding pleasure in a symphony of sounds and sights and smells. It's about widening the radius of a restrictive and demanding schedule where breathing fresh air is sometimes difficult and thinking creative thoughts is occasionally the next thing to impossible.Bottom line , it's about freedom. That's it plain and simple. It's about being free.It's about entering into a tension-free, worry free world where I don't have to say something profound or fix anyone or do anything other than feel the wind and smell the flowers and hug my wife and laugh till we're hoarse. That's it in a nutshell....it's about freeing ourselves up to laugh again."
It's Father's Day, so I think Chuck and I will take our wives for a leisurely ride to Lochsa Lodge in the Lolo National Forest!
"Ride There!"