Thursday, May 30, 2019: Day 20, Fort Payne, AL to Hammond, LA
I decided to visit the Birmingham AL H-D dealership for a comfort stop and to browse their poker chip collection to add to my own:
There I had the pleasure of making a new friend, Carlton Brown from (wait for it)…San Antonio, TX, which is also where our new friends Emilio and Leslie Marty-Soto also live…
Carlton is an electrical engineer who designs and builds electronic control systems for highly detailed and complex model train systems and displays which cost up to half a million dollars…
After sharing opinions about trailer vs riding to destinations I departed and made my next fuel stop in Fosters, AL. A young man walking from the convenience store to his mother’s car at the next fuel pump complemented Raven as I was fueling her. I thanked him and gave him my H-D key chain saying, “For your first motorcycle…be careful!” He was delighted, but perhaps his mother not so much…
I finished fueling Raven and decided to fuel myself with a ‘gourmet’ lunch…
The Bosco stuffed breadstick was just the right size when a personal-sized pizza would have been too much.
Another quick stop in Hattiesburg, MS and I made my final run to a king-sized Holiday Inn Express bed in Hammond, LA. I wipe Raven down, shower the winged termites out of my hair, wash down a Marie Calendar’s chicken pot pie with an ice cold root beer, and I am good for the night!
Tomorrow I hope to be somewhere in TX…and I continue to live my motorcycle touring dream as I wonder whose else’s dream I am also living…
Raven Tales 