SPOT Tracker

[Bengt_Phorqs]

Holy heck, that's a deal!  And I even have a $50 gift card from Cabelas to spend.  Dee, if I ever get up your way, and that is on my bucket list of places to ride, I'll try not to crash and burn so you don't have to dispatch any SAR for me.  Thanks for the notice.

[DeeG]

I love living up here!  Native to SoCal, 15 years ago you couldn't have gotten me out of Cali for anything.  Now I wonder what took me so danged long to get out.

Lemme know when you decide to come up, we have a spare room.  Well, unless we get taken out by one of the yearly wildfires........  hehehe

My daughter lived near Arlington for about a year, went to visit her once.  It was very pretty down there. And people were SO polite.  It was a shock to the system.  :-)

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Of course they are polite in Texas, most of them are packin' heat!  

[Bengt_Phorqs]

In some very small way that might contribute to a polite society, however most of us that were born and raised in Texas like to think of it as an extension of Southern Hospitality.  Mama used to always tell us young 'uns that you can catch more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar.  And it really doesn't take much effort to treat people with courtesy.

[nhmaf]

I've always found that once I get south of Virginia, people are much friendlier and generous than north of Virginia.   Things also seem to happen alot slower down south- one cannot be in a hurry like one may be up north.   I attribute some of this to the weather, as well as the culture of the area.

[Bengt_Phorqs]

I've been following this story ever day or two since I first heard about it.  http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72221  
The rider, Donald Masters, was found dead on Hwy 93 in Idaho.  No doubt had he had some sort of tracking device he would have been found much sooner.  Something to think about when we head out on a solo trip.

[DeeG]

So very sad, but I'm glad that the family can have closure on this.  That piece of road is very unsettling sometimes.  It wasn't 'engineered' right and it can bite you if your not careful. For me, it was never a comfortable set of curves to go through.  

I am heading down through that area in two weeks, I'm going to leave some flowers for him.

damn.
 
RIP Mr Masters


And yes, the SPOT would have come in handy, considering he wasn't 'supposed' to be that far south.