Motorcycle Week!

Till Thursday, anyway.

Today marked day 5 in a row of having my butt on the seat of my motorcycle. VROOM. Saturday, I sat on the passenger seat, while kurlon drove us to the shop to pick up his new bike. Giovanni's passenger seat is more comfortable than the one on alexsaintpierre's IGOR. We then headed off on a ride to Cornish, had a wonderful dinner at Krista's, and rode back home.

Sunday was a quick trip to Max & Mickel's and back, lovely breakfast of waffles.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, rode to and from work! Wheee! Monday I even got a strawberry soft serve at my Favorite Ice Cream Shop (was hoping for coffee-strawberry swirl, but that machine is only half working... sigh...).

Tuesday got my new inspection sticker, so we are legal for another year. kurlon swung by the shop too, to show off the new toy. The look on G's face was *priceless*. Going from an ST3 to the weeee little 250 is quite a jump, and nobody really gets it... We rode to and home from fencing practice (which was fantastic. Last week outside, till next summer... boooo).

Wednesday night I had some time to kill before singing practice, and so, gassed up Giovanni after work, and headed northwest, to take the loop around Sebago Lake. State Park Road has been recently repaved, and it was a dream. Once I got off that road, and on the way to Gorham, not so much... those roads need re-paving. (I really, really need to get an inexpensive little camera that will fit in my pocket, too... One I don't care too much about losing, but will still take decent photos, because I find such pretty places riding around.)

An hour and a half (halfway through which I should have put the liner back in my jacket; I was a little chilled) is about my limit in the seat, I find... Might have been able to go longer if I was warmer, and if the roads hadn't been so bumpy. I was definitely tense by the time I got back on more familiar roads.

But an hour and a half will seem like nothing in a few weeks, I'm sure... J has convinced me to come with him to LRRSNHMS, and do a track day. We've got a special rate, I've got the day off. Hoping I don't do anything stupid while I'm out there. Am quite nervous, despite his reassurances that I can run my own pace, get as much instruction as my brain can handle, etc... Right now, I'm just hoping to not break anything unfixable (on me or Giovanni), and for not having a total meltdown halfway through the day when I'm exhausted. We'll see!!