Photo by Howard Koontz
“Everywhere you go, you always take the weather, take the weather with you.”
-Neil Finn
There’s always the assumption that if you don’t have perfect weather on a motorcycle trip, something’s wrong. But I would have to say that an adventure is what happens when everything isn’t perfect.
For most of our trip so far (and we are now at the finish of day three), we have had wind, rain, cold and damp in various measures each of the days. While we could have done without some of the wind, the rest have all been just part of the adventure. We’ve always managed to get stopped in time to close up the vents and get the rain gear on. Of course, not all our gear is glamorous. We rough, tough bikers use giant bus boy rubber gloves over our regular gloves to keep the rain at bay.
Sometimes the the clouds and cold bring something more than sun and blue skies with puffy clouds could. The gloom of the clouds seems to fit the harsh lines of the Rockies.
We have, of course, had plenty of warm, sunny times as well. And those times are wonderful. But just because it’s raining doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong.