Happy New Year 2013

If you've read this blog in the past, then you know that it is a New Year's tradition to take a motorcycle ride. It is done because we can. I mean that if we lived where it snowed, or was regularly below zero in temperatures, then we could not ride the motorcycle on New Year's Day. Well...I suppose we could, but it would be dumb. However, here in the desert, despite the unusually chilly week we've had, it was not so cold as to prevent our traditional ride.

 

We commemorate that long ago January 1st when we were just married, living in San Diego, CA, and we rode the 1937 Knucklehead to the beach and gazed around us at the ocean and the seagulls, and we were not bundled up in parkas and gloves and mufflers. We had both spent the first 20 years of our lives in a climate where January 1st was always cold and snow-covered. So we just looked at one another, smiled, and said, "YES!!" We knew that this was a definite plus to be able to stand on the shore of the ocean and admire the view and be warm and comfortable and then ride off on the motorcycle.

 

 

Our grandson, whose family visited us for New Year's, took this photo as we were ready to roll. You'll note the chaps, gloves, snugly snapped leather coats. I'm also wearing a headband-earmuff unit under my helmet. We're pushing the limits this year. It hasn't been above 50 degrees all week.

 

 

We rode over the mountain to the east, into the desert, toward Lake Mead. The air was bright and clear, and I could see the shimmering blue surface along the hilly shore. At first the wind bit my face, but as we got into the desert, either I grew too numb to notice, or it wasn't quite as chilly.

 

Notice behind CoolGuy there---green leaves on the few plants that thrive out here. Also, no snow, no ice. That's the way I like it!

 

Again, we had a great time on the Annual-We-Can-So-We-Do Motorcycle Ride. It's really fun the whole year. But it is especially delightful to ride on these special occasions and renew my resolve to never again live year round in a climate where I might have to drive in the snow. Bring on the hot, but leave me out of the cold, thank you very much.

 

Sincerely, EarthSignMama, Weather Sissy