Naturally the weather was not so great for the start of the Lone Star Rally. Chilly rain on Thursday. Chilly but without rain Friday, so off we went to Galveston on the bikes. Huge crowd. They close down several blocks so it is a huge party with food and booze vendors in the streets. The other great thing about this rally is it is all free. Entrance, concerts, everything but the food and drinks of course. Amazing bikes, crazy fun stuff to see, but without the nu...

The journey officially began a little over 1 week ago. We rolled out of the Dallas area a couple of hours late, and a couple hundred dollars poorer, due to air pressure issues that required yet another trip to Lowes. We headed for Lake Livingston - Rainbow's End RV Park. No bucket of gold here, but they do have something we needed...a weigh station. Tuesday we took a nice long motorcycle ride around the lake, it took about 4 hours to get around. Wednesday morni...

The last 2 months have almost flown by. We still seem to have so much to do to get ready, its hard to believe we start our travels in 36 hours. Thursday/Friday were tough days saying good bye to everyone at work but the excitement is also building as we approach Monday (launch day). This last weekend is non-stop sorting, packing and prepping. We've done a trial run of loading the bikes into the trailer and other than a slight mishap with some gravel resulting ...