Back in Black!

Western South Dakota greeted ABM w/some great weather.. Sunny, 80's & 90's, and no rain, expected to hold for at least the next ten days, and the world's largest two wheeled party is on! Ya know, every year it's like area hotels ratchet up their prices another ten bucks a night. We were lucky to find the only remaining room at the Sturgis Super-8 for $83 bucks for the next two nights. After that, we'll be buried among a sea of canvas & chrome. Hope the "triples" (100 degrees plus to outsiders) stay away during the rally, which gets underway next weekend, officially beginning a week from this Monday. This year, the choice was made to avoid Atlanta, Nashville, & St Louis in favor of reaching SD from FLA via Dallas. Who could have known that every aviailable motel room north of Dallas, in the "Ardmore" area of Oklahoma would have been sucked up by their event of the year... The "Ardmore National Horseshoe-Throwing Championship Series"? Rooms in this area were scarcer than Paris Hilton panties, but, I digress. Grabbed a nice room in Chadron, NE. A renovated Motel 6 for a little over sixty bucks, but tonight, we sleep on satin sheets...The Motel 8 in Sturgis..wow.. after that, we share the ground with prarie dogs & bunnies. Ain't life great? Keep checking in as we continue to report from the two wheeled Mecca of the universe, (at least for the next couple of weeks)... Sturgis, SD.