66 Motor Palace

Hobo Life We planned to be in Winslow September 28th-October 6th but events unknown until recently prevented me from being gone. Lori scheduled the time off last December and is unable to to change her schedule on late notice so she drove out alone and spent a few days with her parents. There's a Metrolink station walking distance from the shop and the Motor Palace on the other end so I decided to give the train a shot. The ride goes overnight and I figured I'd sleep my way to Winslow. I was seated next to a nice lady from a few hours outside Kansas City Missouri. She was born in an insane asylum and raised in an orphanage, the widow of a railroad man she has a nice pension. Her sons live in California and she came out last year to live with them. After her oldest son slashed her youngest son's throat (he's ok and they still share a trailer) she told them she was going to take a vacation. When they dropped her off at the station she got a refund on the return t...

Lazy Travelers Last night was the first time we slept in the building except the time we slept on the floor and checked in to a motel early the next day. The time we learned about the cockroaches. This time we have cots, blankets, sink, toilet, air conditioning, and a bath tub. No clothes dryer...yet We slept in then drank coffee 'til noon when we started a quest for food. BoJo's won again. We shared a Patty Melt then walked around town visiting the neighbors and watching people stop to stand on a corner. The left panel with the "girl my lord in a flatbed Ford" is being touched up by the John Pugh (the artist who did the mural. People from Florida A hardcore older Cowboy and Cowgirl from Texas leaving the corner after standing. Australians standing and watching a red Corvette minutes after my old friend Doug Fletcher of Boy Scout Troop 120 in Texas offered the lyrics, "a girl you bet in a red Corvette" on a picture Lori posted on Face book. Our buddy Aden tr...

Captain Jack's having another party in Denver and we're riding the Sportsters again. This year we'll be spending a little time in the Motor Palace instead of wondering if it really exists! The deal No computer, no iPad...just an iPhone and Leica X2. The blogs will be on the iPhone so pictures may be out of order and without captions. There might be more pictures of food too. Good Morning Still Life with Roach...this is what I'm doing now. How it Started First I overloaded the Sportster. I knew it looked stupid but gave it a try. We got to the gas station around the corner and knew it was a "fail." Once I removed the top bag and rigid bottom liner all was fine. I just won't have any room for souvenirs. The weather was perfect, even Needles was only 109, the rest of the desert was around 100 which really isn't bad when you're moving. We followed rain storms from Kingman to Seligman and didn't catch any 'til we were at Snow-Cap waiting for tac...