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Check out the icy beer foam at the top - heaven! Mexican food tends to look like slop on a plate - all running together with a lot going on. Just the way it is. But it does taste pretty good.

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The Negra Modelo tap was dry, so had a couple of liter mugs of Tecate ....

Wife had some weird assed combination consisting of a halved pineapple stuffed with grilled chicken, beef and pork along with some peppers. Side of beans and totillas. Another night out at the local Mexican joint.

A few pics from last night's chow for @Pedro .... First is a platter of "enchiladas suizas" - basically a tortilla wrapped around shredded chicken and covered with a green chili sauce and cheese. Side of refried beans and rice. Almost heaven....

Sitting around talking to my buddy Dave in Indiana today. We settled on some dates and a rough time frame for a ride to California this summer. Dates are May 28th through June 6th; 8 nights 9 days to the coast and back. A little less mileage this time around - about 300 miles per day. Our vague route will include Lake Tahoe, Redwood Forests, Pacific Ocean, Crater Lake, Bonneville Salt Flats. See attached pic. As usual, if any of you casual riders would like to come along with us, you're more than welcome. So far, it's just myself, Dave and his wife Debbie going. Room for more!

You haven't missed anything. Snow is asshole deep on a 9 foot Indian, it's well be low freezing every day and riding bikes is but a dream that is 6 months away for me. But it is sunny today!

I only eat ribs in a few parts of the USA as they usually suck outside of those regions. Tennessee and Texas are the best areas to get ribs..... at least I think so.

I was looking at some old pics from last year's trip to Tennessee and saw some pics that @Pedro would like. My bud Dave and I had a couple of small racks of ribs, replete with cinnamon apples, mashed taters and a few liters of beer. Proper meal after a day's ride....

But that's pretty good for CT, isn't it? Premium is around $2.55 here.

I hate you all. Driveway is still snow covered as are the streets - need 4 WD just to get out of here. Plus it's still colder than shit, Should be out riding around May 20th or so............

Ours has slowly been dropping; about 20% less than recent months. And Colorado's taxes are fairly average on fuel, so it must be a lot cheaper elsewhere in the USA.

Wow - about $5.45 per US gallon then.

Gas is down to about $1,73 per US gallon here. About $0.45 per liter, 0.37 Euro per liter, 0.33 Pounds per liter What is it where you live?

It's a manly looking purple. You need to adjust your monitor settings.

Nah, we went 4 months this past summer with no rain. And when it does rain, it's the Virga rain that doesn't even get your jacket wet. It's weird to ride in the rain and never get wet. The higher portions of Colorado can get some thunderstorms, but the are usually only 1-2 big clouds that move by pretty quickly. Sit down, take a break and watch it pass. Waiting on a traffic accident to be cleared before the road opens - in rain as hard as it gets in the desert. Jacket isn't even wet....

It's purple not blue ya blind bastage!

We should spend 2-3 days riding around northern Colorado in my truck; 4WD so we could drive up the dirt roads to mountain passes. Then hit some restaurants in Denver so you could experience some city life in the USA rather than just being out in the boonies the whole time. Time off bikes would be good for a first time visitor.

I kinda like the looks of a lot of his food. I'd take him to some Mexican joints that truly serve a platter of slop. It looks like crap, but taste's really good. I'm sure his pig swill is the same. One thing you guys have that we don't; seafood. No oceans within 1,200 miles of here so no fresh seafood at all. Lots of beef, bison and elk meat but not much else. I love it when we travel to the coasts so I can eat fresh seafood the entire time. This makes Pedro's food look good! (below)

Not to toot my own horn, but I promise not to take anyone on crap, boring roads, etc. We'll avoid all of that on longer trips or on short weekend rides. There's too many good ones to mess around with shit roads.

Truer words have never been written! I ride a lot of dirt roads as connectors to paved ones. The county I live in has like 3 paved roads in it. People that haven't been here have no idea how rural it is; nearest shops are 30 miles away, no cell service anywhere - not even at my house. Despite that, it is a cool area.

You're only looking at the longer trip - DesmoDog and I are doing another ride that probably won't leave Colorado and will be much less mileage. We plan on staying at my house most nights and then at my wife's hotels across Colorado for free or largely discounted as we're both cheap fuckers. That would be the ride for you - still good riding but loads of time just checking stuff / towns out as well. Cool part about that ride is that you could decide to go a week before and it wouldn't really affect our plans at all. Plenty of room at our house for more; have 3 extra bedrooms that are all en suite, so you'd be good there. Keep it in mind.

Again, no interstates on these rides. We'll go through the deserts rather than around them. Pic below is from Idaho, but the Nevada desert looks similar with fewer plants growing. It's 400+ miles of flat and straight but is still kinda cool to ride across.

All good points. We ride only on 2 lane roads - no interstates except in middle of big cities to get to the hotels. Less than 100 miles out of 4,000 will be on interstates. Across the deserts there's really not all that much to see. We'd only pass through 2-3 towns crossing Nevada and they're small, one stop light places. The rest of the state is pretty featureless. The rest of the days aren't high mileage - just crossing barren sections. Plenty of time to see the sights, eat the food, drink the drinks, etc.