Veteran's Day Thank You

Thank you to all who have served and sacrificed...as well as those that continue to do so. To my grandfathers, grandmother, father, mother, father-in-law, 3 uncles, son, daughter, stepson, sons-in-law and extended family members...you hold a special place in my heart for your service to our country. Thank you isn't enough....

Donna

One more time...

Yup, our plans have changed one more time. Last May we announced that we were moving the trip to the fall of 2012 because of Stu's twin granddaughters high school graduation. That date change became even more important when we learned that Stu would be getting both knees replaced in early April 2012.

Fast forward to now....Stu's youngest daughter will be getting married in late October 2012. Soooooo, once again we delay our Route 66 trip. Current plans are for fall of 2013...and I'll be 66 so it will be fun to ride Rt 66 then. LOL! Gotta have something to look forward to.

By then Stu may have upgraded to a 2012 Tri-Glide, I'll probably still be on my SuperLow. We continue to fine tune what we will need for the trip. We recently joined a travel club that might make it more cost effective to hotel more than camp. That said, we will do some camping and we still plan to take Sadie along.

We also still plan to take our time, wander as desired, sticking to the route but with detours to see interesting sights. We have run across two different tour groups for riding the route but don't think that really suits us.

So hope you will continue to monitor our progress and we will try to blog more than twice a year as we prepare. LOL!

Ride safe,
Stu and Donna

Update - Fall 2011

We've been back in TN for three weeks but have been "vacationing" elsewhere for two of those. We did stop one late afternoon to check out the property. Everything was in good shape. The main driveway had some leaves and pine needles but was in good shape.



The rough cut driveway to the eventual pole barn only had one layer of gravel and needless to say, the weeds were a popping! LOL!

We won't be doing any work on the property this fall but plan to be back sometime in June next year. We'll get the power and water put in so we can get on property. The septic will be next, even if we have to get a portable macerator. We plan to spend June, July and August on the property. If we can manage, we will get the shed built so we can use it for both storage (and close out our storage unit) and the bikes (while on property).

Our thoughts are to possibly target 2014-2015 for the pole barn build. My hope is that our cabin will follow a year after that. So hope you hang around for a bit....

Still rolling,
Stu and Donna