IGGY Update:
He was in Canada doing his 8 hour rest bonus last night. He'll get up at 4 a.m. PDT and have 2 days and 1 hour to cover 2800 miles. That's a stretch of miles...even for Iggy.
Yesterday was not very many miles, but between traffic, border crossings, more traffic, ferry rides, ferry waits, more ferry rides, and then a seriously distracting city of Vancouver (where every 23 year old woman is a hottie in that town...or has he just been rallying for 9 days?)
He feels pretty good for Day 9. MUCH better than the last two rallies. Weirdly, after he lost all that weight.. he finds his lower back is sore! 'Sup with that? He's resorted to trying to lean back with his feet forward like a Harley rider. It's either that or hunch over. Lots of little weird things are accumulating. His tire is squared off so it vibrates going down the road. He would be freaked out by it, but had it happen on his other two IBRs. His GPS bracket is loose and flops around when he hit bumps, but at least it hasn't broken off. His XM radio cuts out if he bumps the cord wrong. He's lost a glove at the airplane bonus in Colorado Springs..so he finds myself wearing the one he didn't lose, and one of his mesh backups. He's lost 2 sharpies and one dried out on the Pony Express blitzkrieg in the Sierra...now he only has a crappy Marriott pen left.
But his FJR is going to roll over 150,000 miles in the next tank of fuel and just runs like a Timex. He's never really bought into the vehicles having souls sort of thing, but he find himself patting it/her/him on the side of the tank occasionally, "Good FJR....good FJR." The Pony Express theme just struck a chord with him and his bike.
Bill and Susan Watt greeted him at the bonus in Vancouver...with a homemade brownie and bottle of water! Bill was the mastermind of the Canadian portion of this rally I believe.
He wonders how friends and competitors are doing? He's still glad he is not in the heat. But, he sees SPOT tracks and wonder about a couple of them...he's hoping Wendy is busting a move on him.
