Our Little Guy Goes Where He's Towed To
Just passed into my home state. Tomorrow I will show Rick where I grew up and maybe introduce him to my younger brother in Cleveland. Should be an interesting day!
A friend and I tried to ride our bikes from Colorado Springs to Connecticut in 1979 or 80 (memory fails). We followed this same route. Lots more to the story, but I thought it was so cool today to do about 20 miles just for the fun of it. Glad I brought my bike. Here’s a pic while I was riding. Oh, had a awesome tail wind! The wind blew strong all day. Good thing it’s was blowing our way.
We left Salida around 11:30 Denver bound to attend Karens birthday party. Our goal was to find Hwy 86 east for Limon and I-70. After two tries and a few choice comments, we found our way to the Limon truck stop and our little guy parked along with the big guys for the night. There was an eerie string of red lights blinking rhythmically along the horizon that made us think of “ET phone home”. We realized in the morning that it was windmills!
Off we went eastbound by 8:30. Simon is a good traveler and pays attention to what’s going on (when he’s not sleeping.) Rick wanted to get a bit of exercise and suited up for a short ride. Simon and I reorganized the gear and then watched the race cars at the local fairground. We headed east to find Rick along Hwy 36 sharing some of our “scenic” ride with farm equipment that slowed us down to 20 mph for a while!
We saw the sign for an historic marker and here I am just about in the geographic center of the US. Wow.
Tonight we are in marysville, ks in the SuperWalmart parking lot. The wind has finally died down and it should be quieter than last night. We plan to get up early and keep heading east.
We stopped for lunch at a park near Blue Mesa Reservoir. Just a quick stop but Simon wasn’t ready to leave when we were. We had to trick him into finally moving.
Made it home from picking up our Little Guy. We were on the road for three full days. Camped three nights, twice in the Shadow once in tent. We were out of Internet range a lot of the time. Now need to write about events and post pics. Just have to say, we are very pleased with our new Silver Shadow Little Guy. I’m calling him Shadow. Making lots of plans and imagining all the places to go and stuff to do.
On our way this morning to see a Little Guy Silver Shadow in Bayfield, Colorado. We’re probably going to camp out tonight somewhere near there. Tomorrow, if we decide to actually get this Little Guy, we’ll have a hitch installed on our 2009 Subaru Outback.
Here’s the route we’ll be taking. I realize this particular map is not very interesting, but I’m just practicing putting maps into our posts. I’m thinking it’ll be interesting when our trips really start going places. Oh, then there is the whole new “places” technology happening on Social. It’d be cool to take advantage of it.
Once we decided to pursue Little Guy rather than other similar types of teardrop trailers and after watching all the online videos, we had questions that needed answers from Headquarters in Ohio. Of course, it was a Friday afternoon and they are 2 hours ahead of us, but as Chris says in the videos on their golittleguy.com website, “Text me anytime!” So we did – at 6:30 Mountain Time. We really did not expect to hear back that evening, but sure enough, he did! We went back and forth with him on a couple of issues and he answered them to our satisfaction so we could sleep easy that night. It’s reassuring to know that he did what he said he would, even after 9 pm on a Friday. We feel very good about this company and are hoping all works out when we meet our Little Guy Silver Shadow in two days. We are even thinking of making a trip east and taking a side trip to World HQ in Canton, Ohio on the way.
On the local level, we have been dealing with Dena at Rich’s Performance Marine in Bayfield, Colorado and have been similarly impressed with her followup and assistance. Really looking forward to meeting her on Wednesday!
We’ve been communicating with a dealer in Bayfield, Colorado about a Little Guy Silver Shadow they have on their lot. It basically looks like our current header image on this website. We’re pretty excited to drive over there on Wednesday to take a look at it. If it works outs to be the one, then we’ll have a hitch installed on the Subaru and drive ‘er home! We may make a small camping trip out of it. Bayfield is 165 miles away from Salida. It’s almost to Durango. I think we’re planning on camping out on Wednesday night in our tent.
This is something new! Looks like we can post via voice message. So now with posting via email and via voice mail there should be no excuse, except maybe just being too far off the grid. Well if that ever happens we might just hang out there and have a little grid-less time. 😉
This is a test post to see what it looks like. I’m stealing this image off of the official Little Guy website (www.golittleguy.com) for now. I should probably get permission from them. Who knows maybe after we massage this site a little to make it look really great and we start posting our trips they might feature us on their site. That’d be really cool. Then we’d be famous!
I’m playing around with the look and feel of this site. I’m trying different themes. Almost decided on the Twenty Thirteen theme and may go back to it. Rather than take the time to learn the new theme, I’m using the same theme we used on GeeGeerides.com. That blogged the trips we took on our ’06 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic motorcycle. Since it worked so well for us on that blog, I’ve decided to just simply host this new blog as well on WordPress.com.
I could self host it, but I’m going for simplicity here. The main point is to create our journal of travels in our Little Guy, if or when we get it. But that’s another post. Hmmm, if we get to the point of asking for donations via PayPal, I’d have to self host to get the plugins I’d need.
Our Little Guy Travels 