Road Trip

Instead of the 17 hour ride to WV we decided to drive 2.5 hours to Northern NH.

After working trying to get the light on Joel's 3-wheeler to work for a couple hours 3 of us went for a Friday night-ride in Berlin for an hour or so. We tried to stay dry (we never succeed) and ended up meeting a Moose in the middle of the trail. We chased him off the trail and into the woods. My bother-in-law and Burnsy got a good look at him, but I couldn't pick him out from the shadows.

Saturday Morning we went for a ride in Stratford good for 40 miles or so.

We started out at Burn's Truckstop and had lunch at Stratford Pond. Lunch cost $7 and all proceeds went to Make-A-Wish (good deal). This time we had 5 riders 4 Quads and a 3-wheeler. Joel played in the water/mud a little to much and we needed to stop for a few minutes to dry things out. Good thing we did, we discovered that the bolts in his front fork we loosening up (disaster avoided). A few miles down the trail Joel nearly lost the rear wheel off of his machine. All that was holding it on a few threads on one lonely bolt. We thought we would just steal a nut from each of the other wheels just to find out that there where only two nuts on the front wheel. Anyway the other guys borrowed a couple nuts off the other rear wheel while I got rid of my $7 lunch in the woods (baked beans... man they are quick). After this every time we stoped Joel was sure to make sure that they were tight. After watching him ride that thing all morning it's no wonder why those things were outlawed in some areas. He was all over the trail, stuggling to keep control of that thing.

Anyway we make it back in one piece. Next time I'm thinking we do it in the snow.

Also, Caleb got to bring up his 4 wheeler and drive it around my sisters house. My sisters kids and Burnsy's oldest also took it for a ride. We turned the throttle setscrew all the way in and told the kids to leave it in 1'st gear. It found it's way into a bush and got rolled over in a ditch. Didn't hurt anything except for some little boy's pride a little. Caleb was proud to show off his toy and did a great job sharing with all of his friends.