I take these cross country trips all of the time. I'd like to say I pack light, but being a woman, you just can't have too many things!!

I like riding through small little towns to meet different types of people, and to see the country.

I also take the main interstates depending on how much time I have to get back. Going there I take my time, coming back it's usually at the last minute.

I take a sleeping bag, and a smith/wesson. Never leave home without either one. And am not afraid to use the latter  if I have to.

I have met up with lots of savory people along the way, mostly crooked cops. I try to stay within the speed limit. But there have been times, when following a semi, I overdid the limit. In New Orleans & in Bainbrige, GA, in both places I have been stopped for doing like 5mph over the limit, and was told by both cops, if I give them blow jobs they will not ticket me. So I asked for the ticket, got their badge numbers, and never paid either ticket. I refuse to do anything sexual for any cop to throw anything away. 

I like the little mom & pop restaurants along the way, the ones where you pay little for food, and get lots to eat.

And then there's always people who have never seen a motorcycle or a woman on one.

I rode out west on I-40 and stayed in a small town in OK. When I woke I think all of the towns folk were outside glaring at my goldwing. The owner of the motel, called all of his friends to come down. NO one in that town ever saw a motorcycle before, and they were thrilled with the artwork on a moving vehicle, and everyone wanted to buy me breakfast just to take pics of me on my bike.

But then you can ride through towns, and be accused of being one of those bad assed bikers you hear about on tv all of the time. I just pretend to not know what they are talking about. The smaller the town, the smaller the mind. Lots of small towns are afraid of anyone on a bike, because of media hype. We are bad people, we kill, steal, and rape. And we are uneducated. When lots of people hear I am a nurse practitioner, they freak out.

I have taken my daughter on cross country trips. She is more endowed than I am, and most people do not know that goldwings have CB radios on them. We hear what the truckers are saying. Two of them one time made comments about the 2 dykes on bikes. Then about the bimbo on back with the big tits. We let them talk for awhile, then I came on the radio, and said we were a mother and daughter team on the bike, not dykes and the 16 year old is not a bimbo. They shut up after that & had us ride between the two trucks and kept an eye on us the whole trip, after that.

We stopped at a small town in GA one time during a lightening storm. Hara, my kid was afraid of the lightening so we stopped at a local convenience store. While there we were invited to a local klan meeting, my kid never jumped so fast back on the bike, and said we had to get back.

I love my little trips, and wish I could take more of them. I wish more of my friends would get off the couch and take a ride sometime with me, and see the sites the way I do. I'm not much into the tourist thing. I prefer to do my own site seeing.

And this kind of riding is the best for the kids too. I liked showing mine the real parts of the country where most people are afraid to go.

I am not much into bike weeks anymore, because of the new yuppy prices. I used to love to go, get a hotel for $19/nite, or campout on my bikes for a few hours then go to next party. But now they are all commercialized, and the good times no longer exist. I am more into if it's free it's for me routine, but the newbie biker has changed that.

I have been to Daytona bike week at least 30 times and each time used to feel like the first time, until about 1997 or so, then it all changed. Hotel prices went up, prices of everything went up, the free concerts became paid ones. And guys no longer wanted women who acted real, they now want women who are more discreet in public, who "bow down", something I won't do for anyone.

I enjoy being one of the guys on a ride with the guys. I don't mind paying for others as I can afford it too. I don't expect some guy to always pay for me when we go out. Lots of guys aren't used to that yet. It makes me more independent.

So if you ever want to go on a real ride where the normal biker doesn't ride to, I'm not normal, let me know.

I don't plan on where I'm going, I don't look at the map, I let my bike lead the way.

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