The wife and I just returned back home to L.A. on the last flight last night from Philadelphia after attending her family reunion in the southern New Jersey town of Cinnamonson.
Arriving into PHL at noon on friday(yeah...I sure do "like" those red-eye flights, alright!!!) we rented a car and drove to Atlantic City and spent the night there. Found that city going through a renaissance of sorts. Played about 4 hours of Texas Hold'em friday night at the Trump's Taj Mahal.
Saturday before driving to her cousin Kathy and her husband's home, we drove down the beautiful Jersey shore and stopped for lunch in Ocean City. The weather couldn't have been nicer as we marveled at some of these multi-million dollar homes right on the water there.(though I'd hate to have to pay for their yearly storm insurance, I'm guessin')
Sunday morning, Mike, her cousin's husband, loaned me his newly purchased Star 1100 cruiser, and so I put about 100 miles on it riding around the Garden State's roads.
I gotta tell ya(how's THAT for Joisey Speak?!) what a beautiful ride I had. I rode mostly two-lane country roads past green farmlands and homes that aren't on postage stamp-sized lots.(kind'a the norm out here in California, ya know)
What a day. The temps were in the 70s with little humidity, and I found that Yama...err...STAR motorcycle isn't a bad bike at all, though the vibration in the handlebars was a little more than I am accustomed to after owning the BA these past almost 6 years. I grounded those floorboards a "few" times, I must admit, and the power output for a bike with a 300cc larger motor isn't much more than my BA's either, with probably less power available up high in the rev range.
Bottom line: I'll keep the Triumph, but thank you Mike for the loaner.
(of course the ongoing joke was that Judie and I had brought the nice low-humidity California weather with us back there)
Last edited by Dwight; 06/26/2007 3:01 PM.
