Not a bad haul, 5 hours from Lansing, Newberry MI. USA. The Upper Peninsula has been pretty dry, so the forcast of rain Friday sounds good to me and Rick. It's off and on rain for our caravan of RickS' truck with rxpo and his 600 Pirauna, wgfawb0 with a pickup and his AR51 on a trailer, and my Traverse and single place trailer with the 600 Pilot.
WE get unloaded,and do a few things to the buggies, and head out from our cabins about 3 or 4 pm Friday. It's pretty wet, but looks real good for Saturday, once the sandy soil soaked most of it up. Out we head to a gas station, and I'm low on fuel, maybe 3/4 of a gallon left. I dump in the 2 1/2 gallons I had strapped on, bought 2 1/2 gallons, mixed that up, then topped off the Pilot's tank, then topped off the strapped on fuel jug. Back we head, retracing our path out. It started raining pretty good, enough to really slick up the trails. Back at camp, we decide no evening ride on Friday. It would put me out of dry clothes on the first day!
After seeing the nighttime lows, I throw an old pair of Carrhardts in the load. They were very handy Friday night around the fire. The video is from the ride out Saturday after parking our buggies in the restaurant's lot and having breakfast in comfort. Nice. There was some jumping of the buggies in a ditch as we geared up after eating, but I thought it was out of place.
As the leader Rick has to keep an eye back, as well as forward. He'll only go as fast as he is pushed, to keep from getting too far out front. So we were just getting up to full speed when my belt blew. Here's some video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXay3CY_hCA