Chromo's wild ride, or Return of Chromo!

Well, last year I bought my 95 in CA, and I liked it herre so well I have returned again this year buying up a parts or project bike. Swapping engine to my 95 to fix the 4th gear issue soon.

Well, I left home awhile ago, some of you may have noticed I've not been online posting. When the posting stopped I was hittinng the road, and not been online since really other than to che3ck for Pm's.

Got here in Oceanside, CA Monday safe and sound. Was a nice trip, stopped a couple days to visit great friends in NM.

Pulling small trailer on my first long trip it's been fun. Only 4'X8' with short sides.
Starting out I had testing the trailer to local runs at home for a total of around 500 miles and all was great.
I hit the road early morning but not as early as I had wanted due to heavy fog and my dog decided to chase a deer that morning also. LOL
When the dog came back about an hour later I put her on the chain and headed on out. Normally I let the dog run being I live in woods but lately she has been trying to chase vehicles on the dirt road passing by, so on the chain for awhile till she breaks that habit.

I got rolling and things were fine for awhile, then started getting lot's of odd feelings in bike. Slowed me down a bit stopping to check things at times, never really figured what it was then, maybe just nasty roads?
At one point I even dropped my trailer and ran back over some road I just ran to see if the bike handle the same without the trailer or if it was the trailer causing it. Bike handled same so was not the trailer.

So I was running later than I wanted already.
Seem to be Spring cutting time for the sides of AR. 2 lane HY! WATCH the Turns and junk in road! Mowers were tossing large piles of grass/hay into the the road about half the lane wide. As I passed one mower carfully it tossed a large rock up out into the road which bounced a time or two and clunked hard unber my wing. Well, sitting about 30 minutes at the nearest place to stop checking to be sure no cracks or leaks! That rock hit hard under the engine but no damage so on I rode.

Heading into OK, OK looked like storms ahead, but they all blew to the N.E. of me and I was heading S.W. soon.
Lot's of Lighting off to my right in those dark clouds, weather fine and nice a but windy for me though. It seems my rightside is where the dark clouds and lighting like to ride with me. Almost always to my right, seldom to my left? LOL

So about 20 miles before getting to Lawton OK I pull up to an intersection in the dark of night, not real late, just after dark. As I pull out into the road making the left turn in middle of nowhere some-one tossed about 300 gallons of water onto me! Well it seemed that way anyway! :shock:
I felt 1 or 2 drops as I pulled up to that stop sign, but it dumped on me big time before I even got the left turn made! coming down so hard I could barely see the road for about 5 miles maybe and it was gone.
Course I was not wearing my Frogs at the time so I got totally soaked!
Also I've rode hard storms many times and was wondering why in the heck I was getting pound right in the chest with all that rain, that never happened before! CLOSE THE VENT DUMMY! :ROFL::ROFL:
Not used to a vent really, had it open last year, closed all winter, was open that day. Never thought of the vent till I was stopped and putting on the toggs at the nearest station. LOL
Of course once I got the frog Togs on I never got any more rain, but it got a bit cold and the Togs did help keep me warm even though I was soaked.

I picked up my new Austone tire in Lawton, had a great visit for a few hours, and hit the road for the night.
YES, you know me, I still ride the nights! Was a great ride throughout the night on good HY mostly all to myself.
I rode on into NM.

I have to run now, I will try to return soon to post more for the trip.
Don't have internet where I am so have to pop into WIFI spot and not much time to sit around and do that right now. Busy having fun, visiting, and playing with the bikes working on things etc..

Sorry, NO PICS for now. It did happen though, and I have a picture or two just to show it happened, but camera batteries are dead so I can't post them right now.