Dear east coast...

[SpyderAnn01]

Yikes! I was seriously thinking of buying a home in Nevada, near Las Vegas, but not any more. How the heck do you have a sand storm and a flash flood at the same time? (I actually know the answer to that. I have been in one of those flash floods). While California has a number of problems, weather is generally the least of them.

I did the B.U.M.P.S tour in Nevada a couple of years ago and about froze. What I did not know is that Nevada is one of the most mountainous places this side of Afghanistan. Who knew? I believe that Las Vegas may be the lowest spot in the state and that is what everyone relates to. Yet there is a ski resort outside of town. Who knew that? Nevada is an interesting state.

Stay cool. It's 104 here and I am parked. There are just too many good days to ride.

No flash floods - yet. It does get cool here in the winter but not too cold to ride. I understand that Mt. Charleston Ski Resort has the longest ski season of any place in the US

And who forced you to move to that particular place?

Patrick

Nobody forced me I moved here by choice and I love it.

Tough start to a weekend there...

When the going gets tough the tough ride their Spyders.

Before I went to bed last night it smelled like smoke from a big fire somewhere was blowing into the valley. Maybe that's what the "sandstorm" I saw coming was... Smoke..

Btw. I didn't move here. I was born here. Everyone else moved here. "we didn't land on Sherwood forest... Sherwood forest landed on us!"

I smelled the smoke also.

[Arr MiHardies]

Rain last night and this morning. Now the sun is out and the humidity and heat is growing.