Well i guess i would finally tell the story of my first Ride on The VTX back in April...
Leave started kinda slow... i arrived at the Airport a few hours earlier than originally expected so i had to wait about an hour for my dad to show up and take me back... well when i finally got back my dad did not pull in Fully into the Drive way a good sign... getting out of the Car i looked up and there she was... the first time i was able to see the piece of beauty...(which my dad had taken the time to Clean and make it shine all perdy and stuff for me) i was sitting on it before my dad could even get out of the car... still in uniform i was already askin my dad what he was going to ride... Doggin on him trying to find out if he was goin to ride his 82 wing or my 96 Shadow... well at that point he chuckled at me "No... i am going to ride this" with that he pulled the Cover off of his 07 Honda VTX 1800N Spec Three Black Cherry with the Red pinstripe decals... (Two years newer and an spec higher than mine... he doesnt like being out done by his boy
lol )
at that point i nearly shat myself... as he explained how and why he bought the bike...
a bit of some back ground on my dad...
He has more than once saved me... he has always placed his family first and done everything in his power (and sometimes things outside his power) to make sure everything was right... well 4 days proir to my coming home Al Lambs was having a sell my mom wanted to go look... my dad taking half a day off and not feeling good didnt want to...
Mom " I wanna go look"
Dad "I dont feel good and i dont want to tease myself"
Mom "well i wanna go look"
Dad "Not today"
Mom "I Want To Go... We are Going"
Dad " Yes Ma'am"
and so they went and started looking well when the Dealer rep guy came to ask if they needed help my dad said no they where just looking... where as my mom had other plans... "We are buying you can run his credit"...
and thats how he got his bike...
oh yea back to the original story
well after taking time to change out of my Uniform and letting my dad have a chance to eat lunch it was time to ride...
we went out riding for hours putting around stopping here and there... talking... enjoying the time being spent with my dad... it was a Beautiful Day too... just perfect. we got home from riding and went right back out on the bikes for dinner...
the next day consisted of the same thing... just riding around enjoying the company of my Mom and Dad
you know there are tons of beautiful roads out within 20 miles of ceder creek lake...
well after that it was time for me to go into dallas... i spent the next few days riding daily... most of the time with no particular place to go... just riding...
then i went to Vegas for a week... (almost rented a bike i wanted to ride that bad)
a few days after returning from Vegas my mom, dad and i took the what took like 5 hour ride to my grandmothers house in east texas...it was a beautiful ride taking 80 almost all way there... we ran into a patch of rain and shortly after decided to stop and get lunch at a wendys... which almost caused my dad to loose more hair...all in all it was was another lovely ride... nothing could have been better... not funner for that matter... after spending three days at my Grand mothers we made the trip back looking around and just taking our time...
That night heading back into dallas i ended up running over a dog.. on the X... scared the AppleSauce out of me but there was little i could have done for or to avoid it... i feel bad about it but i didnt have any options open to me accept hold on and pray it didnt wreck me...
the day before i had to go back to afghanistan i had the worse ride of my life... After a few days of rain the bugs come out to play in at 9 O'clock.... i had forgotten about this as i took a back road back to my dads house... yea... due to the fact that i dont ride with any type of shield... i just ended up becomeing a grave yard of bugs... enough dead bugs that you could hardly see the Leather of my jacket ( yea thats a bit of an exageration but all the same... )
but in the end i wouldnt trade it for anything...
D
Oh i have pics of us riding... but Photobucket is blocked on Military networks so i can post them
