Wish we were closer, we could ride together
I think we are only about 1000 miles apart. How are things with the new riding buddy, or should I not ask?
I did do my ride today, helping a friend deliver Christmas gifts to his family. An uneventful day except for one thing. I hit a deer, a fully grown doe, to be exact. Traveling on a country road at 70MPH, and one second she was no where in my line of sight, the next she was running right in front of me. She jumped a barbed wire fence, I guess to get to the other side.
Had I been going 1 MPH faster, or she had been 1 step slower, I would have T-Boned her at 70. As it was, I struck the right hindquarter at speed, and all it did was shake the bars a little. I know I hit her hard though, from the feel I got. Stopped to check, NO damage to the bike at all, but bet something was broken on the deer. Had only been riding for 20 minutes when it happened, and since it happened so fast, I didn't even get an adrenalin rush, so I rode another 250 miles, event free.
Guess I was prayed up, and being watched over, as I could have been just another motorcycle statistic, had things been just a hair different. Wishing all a Merry Christmas a little soon, since I can. . . tomp