15 April 2018 – I got up and looked out the window. Partly
cloudy with some sun. I carried down my first load to my motorcycle. I put out
my Spot to send a message to Mary and they removed the bungee cords holding my motorcycle
from being blown over. When I arrived at the otel it was windy enough to make me
think my motorcycle could be blown over. That’s a real unpleasant thought.
That’s why I had it bungee corded to the hotel water tank out of the way of
other hotel cars. Once the Spot message was sent I moved my motorcycle to the
front of hotel and finished loading it. I then ate breakfast, put on my riding
clothes and then departed.
It seemed like most of the land I drove thru was low land
and swampish. The beef cattle, white face and black angus looked like they had
wet feet most of the time. There also seemed like there were a lot of pools of
water about an acre in size and shallow, maybe 1 yard / 1 meter deep. I saw a
lot of beef cattle knee deep in these ponds. I wonder how many of these
critters got stuck in the mud, fell over and drowned. More and more horses have started showing up. It used to be
one or two horses ever so occasionally but now you see them in group of six to
ten. These horses have nice shiny coats, whereas the earlier horses had much
rougher coats of hair and didn’t look as well fed.
I took a couple of picture
of some of the combines they use down here. Massey-Ferguson and John Deere seem
to be the machine of choice if you can afford them. For the size of the fields
they have down here I would have thought you’d see wider headers. They kind of
looked 15 feet wide. Maybe they were harvesting soy beans instead of wheat, I
don’t know.
I was pulled over by the police in check point and asked to
check papers on my motorcycle. I had to take the tires off the top box to get
to my documents. This is not a pleasant task and time consuming. The police
officer was standing there looking in my box like he expected to see gold or
money. He was disappointed. I gave him my title and border paper work. He
looked at it like he didn’t know what he was looking at and then gave them back
to me. I loaded up my tires and got out of there.
Blanche once again tried to drag me in a direction other
than the way I was going. I had to bully her back on my route. When I arrived
at the hotel I got checked in OK but their internet wasn’t working. I wanted to
do research on upcoming hotels and border crossings. I was not happy about
this. So I went to bed mad.
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