After one of the hottest/longest summers on record, Autumn (Fall) has come in with a bang over the last few days and with the clocks now having gone back one hour, that winter feeling starts to take over. What better time then, to do a little bit of blogging about the Wild Hogs summer tour.
To be fair, there is little to talk about. I've been keeping my eye open for some of the first choice hotels I couldn't book, to see if any have begun to publish dates/prices for 2019 and a couple have. I have, therefore, booked them up and have cancelled the backup options I'd already booked. One, despite now having dates published, claims to be sold out for the one night we want to stay, though every day around it is available. Not a problem, I've booked another hotel in the same town. That wasn't an option previously. I'm still waiting on a couple and hopefully as we progress towards the end of the year, they too will become available for me to book.
For those interested in where we are staying, I've created a list, Homes from Home, which you'll find on the right hand side of the blog, if you page down a bit. I'm really looking forward to staying in some, as the locations are just fantastic, looking at the photos.
Grizzly, a.k.a. Sanch O'Panza, is scheduled for a hip replacement in December. Hopefully everything will go OK and he'll be like a new man by the time we depart for Iberia in June. Riding and getting on/off the bike can be quite painful for him at the moment and sometimes, amusing for me. I'll gladly give up the odd chuckle to see the wee fella fit again though.
Besides the hotel booking, I'm looking at the route again and breaking it down in to more manageable Tomtom sized chunks. Given the way Tomtom identifies stops and way-marks or more accurately, the way it doesn't, it is easier to break each day up into tiny routes to each of the stops during the day. I'm hitting the usual problem though, as we head into winter, that being that some of the mountain roads are already closed, so the route displayed, is not the actual roue we'll be taking. Still, there's plenty of time to get them sorted, once the thaw comes next spring.
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