Isn't that a lot of fun? After I got the OL's bike hauled to Yuma after her mishap, checked into the room we had reserved and unloaded the bags, I made a quick trip back to El Centro to fetch her out of the ER. Trying to get her to the room so she could relax as quickly but safely as possible, I was following maybe 4 seconds behind a cage that was running at a decent speed. I was using the car as a curve and road condition guage. He went around a bend and, as I was leaning into it, I saw something square looking in the road. I didn't want to do any drastic manouvering because of having an injured passenger, so I was just able to miss it enough that it hit my footpeg. It turned out to be a bit of truck tire that had been set on edge by the cage I was following.
Scariest thing I've had to dodge was a trailer in Oklahoma. Seems some good ol' boys had bought (or found) a big flatbed and were dragging it home. The knob to tighten the trailer hitch was missing, so they tied a bit of rope around the thing to keep it on the ball. Unfortunately the rope slipped and they were speeding so, when they hit a bump, the trailer lifted off the hitch ball and headed off across the divider. I saw a dust cloud ahead and started braking and downshifting just in time to watch the trailer dart across the side of the highway I was on and peel the siding off the motorhome that I had been about to pass.
