monday night oct ?

so i'm in dumas texas watching the jets vs vikings (not started yet because of thunderstorms or something)  geeeez come on let's see em play, only the people that deserve to be electrocuted will get electrocuted, right??!!  this will keep things rolling right along...

yesterday was horrible and great all at once.  i finally got to leave seminole, o.k. for o.k. city and snag some new rubber for laru yesterday.  i left the comfortable grasp of the oxford inn and its lounge after 6 days of home-sickness, boredom, booziness and too much mazzio's...i met some great people...my kind of people (i don't know if i'm exactly their type of people, but it worked out with no jail or black eyes)   thanks for the machete mike, and thanks to whomever played for playing round of drinks tag...nice mix of cowboys, bikers, vets, and all around blue-collar folks.

steve, at atomic brown scooters in o.k. city, hooked up a duro tire and a russian c-97 spare rubber (super big knobbies) for $75.  i switched out the tires while steve checked and corrected the alignment on the sidecar.  the bike's still pulling a little, but i have a new rear and sidecar tire....should get me to california.  Also, steve actually didn't have ant spare tires...he called a client that had requested steve put on some new tires among other things for his 2006? gear-up...he told me on the phone sat., while i was in seminole, that he wouldn't even know when he could get tires until mon.  i was damn dissapointed after waiting around all week for them to open again...i assumed they would have plenty of tires, but, like most listed ural dealers, they're just getting into it and don't have much stock of anything ural related.  i don't know if i mentioned this already but they were closed due to the death of a close family member....sorry for your loss guys...back to super steve---he didn't want to leave me stranded so he called the customer with the 2006 gear-up and asked for his brand new spare tire rubber...the person graciously agreed (thanks!! whoever you are)...

so after an hour or so i took laru for a test drive, and she did fine...on a SUNDAY (you're the man steve) laru was up and running
...so i paid him and went to grab the camera to take the pics and some video before i left...no camera

no fucking canon t1i that has been the work horse throughout the trip...my yaschica 120 mm and 4x5 were where they needed to be, but no digi!!!!!!!  right when i got into o.k. city i got gas and had to use the restroom...the camera was under my sidecar cover and hidden from view...i never like to leave tyhe bike and since chris has left it's sorta been a worry...but nothing has occurred so far...i was in a somewhat "bad" neighborhood...bars on business windows, sketchy looking dudes that had been up all night most likely...but it wasn't like the southside of atlanta or chicago for that matter...nothing against those places, but i know not to be there at the wrong time...this was a sunday morning with the sun beaming down and there non-cracked out people milling around the outskirts of the city...

this is a massive hit to the trip...i can make a police report...but the memory card is the most valuable....photos from wilmington, n.c. saying bye to josh and family thru atlanta (joe and his family..my sister and receiving my dad's ashes)...every state line up until oklahoma that i shot with a picture of my dad and me since chris left our ritual....videos of scenery throughout the south...shot-gunning beer videos solo in those states....

so after reacting to the news with disbelief and later anger that came out with a nice and stupid punch to my extremely hard and large camera case, i've finally just let it be another part of the trip...

i'm taking photos and some video with my iphone and using the yashica more...also my photo project got a lucky a couple of times now...and the wonderful jen has just overnighted another digi

i'll be in dumas, tx until i pick up my fedex p[ackage tomorrow at 11:00 am or so...then it's off to taos, n.m. tomorrow