Lois and Tor’s Bikelog

Haven’t posted in a loong time here,,,,still alive though, both of us. I promise we’ll do better

Coming up the 21.st of October. Try to do some camping if it don’t get too cold. The plan is to ride up along Blue Ridge Parkway, Skyline Drive into Shennandoah National Park to Front Royal, VA. From Front Royal, we will cut across north-west into West Virginia, the ride South-West down WV. Along the way we’ll be taking some sidetrips here and there. (Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, Charlottesville etc.)

We’ll post some pictures here

Finally, finally, is it starting to cool down just a little. Enough to where you don’t need a soaked t-shirt to survive the commute home in the afternoon. Looking forward to October VA/WV vacation.

Still commuting with my ST every day. Rain or shine. It’s getting pretty hot in the afternoon, and in order to stay ATGATT, a wet t-shirt is mandatory every afternoon.

Don’t even remember last time I drove the truck to work. Currently saving up vacation time for Lois and myself to spent a few days up in the mountains of Virginia this fall. Heard it’s real nice up there, so we decided to spend a few days.

I wished we could retire tomorrow. So many places, so little time. The trip to the mountains went good. No incidents. Very nice roads, very nice condo. Details here:

http://www.torlo.com/vac06.html

Preparing for the trip. Don’t bring too much, don’t bring too little. Bikes are ready,,,,oil and filter changed, I’ve got new shoes on the bike, everything is set (we think) . We’re just waiting for Friday morning to arrive. Have to kennel the babies up Friday morning before we leave.

The weather forcast for the trip over from Sumter, SC to Ellijay, GA looks good, at least so far. A little too hot for my liking, but ok. Hopefully it gets better as soon as we hit the mountains.

Well I decided to get new tires on the bike before vacation. Went ahead and ordered a set of Michelin Pilot Road’s. Never tried them before, but suppose to be real good tires. The old Battlax tires held up for nearly 12K, which I consider very good for biketires.

Uploaded and configured the blog software tonight. We shall see how it works.