Adventure Motorcycle Blog

It’s 9:23 pm and I’m sitting in a tent writing all this up. Going to be one big paragraph with pics at the end.

Will add all pics later. Horrible signal.

We took our time leaving the Pie Town RV Park probably because we were so tired from being up the bulk of the night. Not a ton to write about today, but some of the highlights included me nose diving into a flooded trail. I thought I could take it, but my front wheel caught a hidden under water rut and splat I went. Tried to save it, but I just ate mud instead. Ego was bruised a hair, but I was fine and after we picked the bike up it started just fine. These Yamahas are tough. I have it all on my GoPro and the first thing I said after smacking the ground was something to do with how extremely proud I was that I caught it on the GoPro 😁.

Another highlight was a trip to Walmart for supplies and having Indian food for lunch. We needed gas and a car wash to get all the mud off but no luck on a car wash. The bikes are filthy. Today’s trails were a mix of gravel, sand, single/double track desert, prairie, big rock roads, pavement and field after field of lava rock formations. The day ended up by Grant, NM. We found a small little picnic area in the foothills and thought it would make a perfect camp site. We setup camp, changed clothes and a guy walked up and said that was a day time us park only. Well that sucked because we just finished setting everything up and out of our riding gear. We heard there’s was another site 2-3 miles down the road so we broke it down and rode to it.

We pulled into Coal Mine CampGround, Cibola National Forest, found a spot and set everything back up again. First overnight without cell or data so we have Garmin in reach to send texts out. Tonight we setup our first bear bag so that was fun trying to get the rope to the branch we wanted. Matt ended up climbing the tree to do it.

In the next day or two we need to find a bike shop. I have a small oil leak coming from the oil filter access panel and Matt has a stripped screw that needs to come out. Tomorrow we are headed to Cuba and it appears to be full of trails between here and there.