Jonesin for a Ride!

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Big Sis is coming for a motorcycle trip…Better make sure I have my ducks in a row…. Little brother can’t be slacking now. Pressure is on!

Accommodations made?
Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Zion National Park, Grand Canyon National Park.
Check, check, check and check.
Tickets for concert?
Check.
Dinner reservations at the parks?
Check, check, and check.
Dinner in Las Vegas?
Oops, it will be Cingo de Mayo when we are in Vegas, better find and make a reservation at a Mexican restaurant so we can make the show.
Check. Boom-done!

Motorcycle gear sorted out? Will do this weekend.
Bike in working order?
Check.
Bike clean? Will do this weekend.
Electronics gathered for trip (gps, SPOT, chargers, IPad, GoPro, ect)?
Again, this weekend.

Garage clean?
It is the usual-a disaster.
House clean?
It is a disaster, need to clean it. The usual…
Laundry done?
Nope.
Car clean to pick her up at the airport?
Again, another disaster…..

Some things never change.

So she will get one! Two weeks and counting…..

My sister Joyce mentioned to me that she wanted to do a motorcycle trip, so we have one planned for the first week in May. I mentioned to her how to pack and that one of the items that was crucial was a jacket worthy for a motorcycle ride, as you dont want to be cold. I suggested for her to try Craigs list and 2 days later and $50 dollars poorer she sent me this:

So the prelim game plan is to head to Furnace Creek Inn located in Death Valley National Park via Trona Wildrose Road for day one, then off to Las Vegas for Elton Johns concert The Million Dollar Piano at Ceasers Palace the following day. After that, it will be off to Zion National Park to stay a night inside the park by the lodge. Then if weather permitting, we will head to the Grand Canyon south rim for two nights. After that, who knows……

Two weeks and counting till we depart….