Today's stats
Temperature - low -2 High 18
Weather - Sunny
Miles traveled - 185
So today started off in typical Fukawi fashion, meaning it didn’t start off at all, or at least not for a while. After having seven great breakfasts (the waitress kept ignoring me but I did manage to get a coffee). We packed our bikes and started up seven out of eight engines. As you might appreciate, it was a bit disconcerting to the eight rider (me) that I could not get my bike unlocked and started.
No worries though, we have eight riders, and everyone pitched in to help to the point of actually disconnecting the locking mechanism from the bike. After a few phone calls to both the Eaglerider Rental place and a Harley Davidson store some 200 miles away we managed to get the locking mechanism back on the bike in the locked position. A few more jiggles, a little swearing and some not very helpful “you should have done this” we got to the point where we had to call in some local help. To the rescue was a fellow named Chris from the local motorcycle repair shop. He was working alone in the shop and had to phone his boss first to get permission to close up and head over to help us. The better part of an hour and a half later and after several head scratches, he managed to Jerry-rig the bike to start. He left us with this piece of advice, “be very careful not to screw this up”. With that we determined the best course of action was to drive straight to the Eaglerider store in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Yep, looks broke to me
Chris doing his magic
This meant driving on interstate 40, which interesting enough was actually most of what Route 66 was (as the freeway was built over it). We did manage to stop in Winslow, Arizona which was made famous by the song written by the Eagles
Fast forward another hour and a half and we made it to the Eaglerider store in Flagstaff. A little paperwork later and I got a new bike
Goodbye old bike
With our late start we decided to stay in Flagstaff and we settled into our rooms at the Hampton Inn (thanks to my travel agent, Lana and my wife Sheryl). By settle in I mean we opened the liquor and preceded to do our best to forget about this day. Two hours later we realized we had the munchies so headed to a local American Greek restaurant (in addition to greek food they also served hamburgers) We had the greek food but probably should have had the hamburgers.
That's someone's cheese on fire
Even Paul left his vegetables (and left the table)
Closeup of the vegetables
A few more drinks back a the hotel and to sleep we went.
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