Pedro

I wouldn't buy it just because the add is all in caps.

That is done just to mess with him.

They searched the whole country and couldn’t find a posher location, very nice!

Looks very smart.

There’s a trip I’d like to make. Set off from home on the GS and go see real wild elephants.

I had to read that a few times

Today I shall wash my bike in the afternoon when there is shade outside of the garage, and then take it for a short drying spin around the neighborhood.

No, I would have for a winter dinner though. It was enough for two two people over lunch, Northern Portugal servings Indeed, hardly any traffic on the small roads

Left the house past 11:30 in the morning, after waking up not too early and doing some work. It looked like a quiet work day ahead so headed out to take advantage of the warm weather before the hot season arrives and before the weekend. This weekend the final match decides the winner of the Portuguese league on saturday, and on sunday we have national elections. I can't tell if the roads will be empty, or full with people that think they'll be empty... As a destination I headed to Serra de Montemuro, a delightful area near the Douro river, it feels like a hidden paradise away from the most well known roads that get full of traffic after so much publicity on magazines and youtube. After an hour or so riding along the Douro I get onto the hills and an hour and a half after leaving home I take a detour to explore some service roads for wind farms. Suddenly it's way higher and temperatures drop by almost 10º compared to the Douro valley. The N321, it's one of those roads you can tell are nice just by looking on the map. I usually don't have proper lunch on rides, much prefer a sandwich or something like that, but today I wanted to check out a small rustic countryside restaurant where a big group is going to stop in a few days, on one of @Sofia's club rideouts. It's run by two very characterful ladies, and they serve old school dishes, this region is terribly cold in the winter and very driven to subsistence farming and cattle, so their food reflects that. It's a very local typical dish, I can't explain what the meat is except it's a smoked salted pork. It's more of a winter thing, though. After lunch, started heading back via the long way but quickly stopped for a few pictures by a very old chapel with a great view. At 1140 meters altitude, it has great views over the Serra de Montemuro with a wink of the Douro river in the distance. Felgueiras, a small village. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of life and activity around these villages today. Pretty skies when heading back. This next one I just took to save the location on the map and know which road it is, it's a nice way to cross this area. Old abandoned water mill being reclaimed by nature. That lovely road from before turned into a bumpy mess with a few kms of cobblestones, I better remember if I ever take Sofia through here because it's not very Speed Triple friendly. Pretty villages, though. less than two hours later and I was home, it was a nice 5 or 6 hours out.

Seems like spring / summer weather is arriving today. I'm going out for a little ride.

They come from sadness and tears?

Where do those bikes come from? Good deals?

Genetic moustache styling?

Montana is very cool. Kevin Costner owns a big ranch there, and drives around in a huge Dodge Ram, his foreman Rip is a badass and longs for a simpler time when cowboys could be cowboys and just live their lives in great scenery.

MT, Montana?

Congratulations, very happy for you!

Belongs to an american who bought it 25 years ago in New York, then last year moved to Portugal after a woman. Just had the speedometer restored. Very cool!

Just had dinner with my brother and my mum. After dinner me and little brother got to talking about trips, and I now feel like riding to and through Croatia and Greece and onto eastern places. God damn wine and drinking!

What will you be riding over there? Shipping the Glide?

I´ll be doing a few rides around Portugal, but nothing really planned. The only real goal for this year is a trip to Morocco, which has no fixed duration or set date yet. Probably from the end of September onwards according to the weather, if it's still too hot I'll delay it until mid October. Will be by myself for some of it, and maybe try a little bit more off-road than previous times, but also meeting up with @Sofia to spend a few days showing her around a few of the nicer places, so it´ll probably feel like two different trips in one.

That’s great, happy for you!

Seriously? Congratulations!

I was hustling curious, because they look so similar. Are you keeping both?