With the bike all back together and running smoothly it was time to head off to try another go at some deep sea fishing!
I had ended up needing to replace the stator and pickup coil for the second time and while all the guts were ripped out I went ahead and put in my HID headlight kit that had been sitting on my shelf for over a year and installed another HID aux light on my fork with a new and improved mount. Look for writeups on the lighting to show up here at some point.
As we’ve been this way many times before and theres not exactly a lot to see in eastern New Mexico and west Texas we weren’t planning on stopping and taking any pictures along the way. When we saw this green alien chainsawed out of a cottonwood tree in Roswell, however, we couldn’t resist the opportunity for a cool photo op and whipped a U turn. I guess Roswell is trying to get in on some of the chainsaw art action like Ruidoso up the mountain with all of it’s chainsaw bears.
Almost ran out of gas in Texas again… We saw a sign that listed the next town at 30 or so miles and decided to keep going and that next town did not have a gas station and wasn’t a town at all, it was the ruins of an old court house and a plaque on the side of the road. Next real town was another 45 miles further, uh oh! We cruised at 50mph to conserve fuel and just made it on fumes.
We were getting pretty low in altitude and the bike was running rough and backfiring through the carbs again so we took this stop to relax in the AC while letting the bike cool down and switch out carb jets. While laying on my back trying to screw float bowl screws back in without burning my knuckles the 10th person walked over to see if I needed any help and then started asking about the bike and where we were headed. He liked the bike and when I saw what he was driving I offered a trade, my color and everything.
Family reunion! I hadn’t seen my cousins Christy and Cindy in years, while passing through the area the next day we had to meet up and introduce Cece to everyone. Good to meet up and catch up some but we had a long ways to go and couldn’t stay long and I forgot to get a picture of everyone. Thanks for the breakfast!
Oh yeah, we did see this huge texas sage bush in full bloom at a gas station, we’ve never seen anything like it before. There were thick hedges of the stuff along peoples fences and driveways very pretty. Cece’s Mom has a small puny bush of it but it never has many flowers and never as full as this.
