Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

Made it to yelm on day one&1/2. Had a small equipment fail on the seatpost clamp, but the cool guys at   ghybikes.com/  hooked me up, well organized shop, as in it took a few seconds for Corey the guy helping me to find what I needed.  Seat saved, easy peasy. After a few struggles late last night, cool guy named Justin helped me out when I was having, you guessed it, more trailer failure, got it fixed for now, and with some luck one of the two surly dealers in portland have a replacement for the right hand thread bold to keep the wheel on. I managed to fix it in the home depot parking lot, after Justin dropped me off, and he wasn't kidding about some of the people up to no good north of JBLM,  If I had to tell the Base Commander a tip, I would make north of the base off limits from sundown to sunup. Managed to find a place to camp, it was so cold, got a couple of hours sleep though, but it was so cold. Cool things I saw were not just the usual Orion that you can see even w

Day Two on the road, only almost a month later, with a different trailer, more bins. So Sunday I'll rearange everything to be set up to travel.   This time with a Surly Bill trailer, and to spice it up, Flame stickers, a flag, three black and yellow bins, and I somehow don't have as much room as those trailers I killed.  I even thinned the pile a bit more. But it will be good to get back out on that road, especially since the weather is supposed to turn this next weekend, happy November. Back to the mindset of "what will I find", and "mysteries galore". Pics below, should be able to handle all of my 'glamping'.... And I leave tomorrow....again...lolz  Day two, let's see how far...this time.