A couple of interesting developments this week. Son Donald's company was bought by a much larger outfit. At last report, he knew neither what that meant for his own position with the company, nor what effect it could have on his summer schedule with regard to the Chaco trip. Perhaps he'll know more soon. We started planning this one before he got involved, but he and Lacey have surely become a part of my continuing daydreams about our trail across the Southwest.
A couple of items arrived by mail, but have "birthday" written all over them, I can't write anything until April 15th. It looks like it will be tire time before we leave. Being a Softail Heritage, I've always thought it should have whitewalls. Looks like by buying them online and having someone here install them I can save $100 or so. Not everyone knows that motorcycles take a different tire on the front than on the rear. I'm looking at a Metzeler MT90B - 16 ($154) for the front and a 150/80 HB16 ($190) for the rear. The Harley folks want $140 to mount them. Other folks will undoubtedly be less.
One last item worth mentioning is that a major piece of my summer work came together this week. I've contracted to do several thousand dollars worth of display work. I'll have full time after commencement on May 12 through the 29th when I begin a class that will meet from 8:00 am. until 10:00 am. MTWand Th. For fivc weeks, it will be 10:30am. or so before I get out to the unairconditioned warehouse. It's usually pushing 100F by then but, in these times, we are most grateful for the work. These are displays I designed and fabricated some years back. In some cases, 30 years.
We've been using the Air Hawk seat cushions whenever we leave town. We agree that they will ease the ride this summer. On the last trip up into Canada, we went with a couple of pieces of sheep fleece which worked quite well.
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