Open Barn Doors

After a day in Nashville I went over to Taylorsville, KY and spent the evening with my sister Betty and her husband Carl. They certainly have built themselves a nice nest there with a partially underground home and a huge shop. Betty continues here genealogy projects and Carl is way into his CJ-3 Jeep project. They had just returned from a Jeep outing in Utah.




I unloaded the Sportster and road up to Ohio for Gary Mac's annual Open Barn Doors party. I arrived on a Wednesday and it had started raining 30 miles from his place and I arrived wet around the edges. It continued to rain off and on until Friday evening and the ground was very saturated. But Saturday, the day of the party, the sun came out and the wind with it and started to dry things out. It was still an inside party though. Gary and I built a wine glass holder over the bar and I helped with the clean up and decorating. The boy needs a barn keeper!


Then the long trip home. I returned to Betty and Carl's, loaded up the bike and spent the night. The next day I went over to Charleston and spent the evening with daddy and Ron and left out after coffee at Boomland with daddy's clutch. A long driving day on Tuesday and Wednesday and I arrived mid afternoon at Pueblo, CO to pick up a 2010 Triumph Bonneville that I had bought on ebay. Then I made it down to Raton, NM that evening and finished up on Thursday evening back home.

This was my first extended trip with the Vixen and it performed well. There are still a lot of little things that need attention, but I have plenty of time to see to them.