Wow. Here we are. 2020. A new decade, a new adventure. I haven’t used my Surface Pro since the last day of this trip LAST year. Took me 20 minutes of updates and 5 text messages to my Tech Support (Thank you Mrs. Mitchell) to get live again. And here we go…
The DarkSide Adventures group gathered at our Launch location around 8am eastern time in Fenton MI. Most of the group gathered for a Pre-Departure celebration at the Fenton Hotel last night to “warm up the trail” so to speak.
You may have noticed, our you may not have, that our trip is a bit later than prior years. This was “by design”, so the idea is we may have more snow, more sunlight, and warmer temps during the excursion this year. We shall see.
We were on the road by 8:40am, with a scheduled first stop of Grace Performance Motor Sports outside Port Huron, MI. Action Dan and his new Superior Bombardier Product (wink wink Ole) needed to return a couple add on parts, Craig and Hedgehog (Phil) bought some new MotorFist gloves, while the rest of us worked with Kevin while he still comes to terms with purchasing a new Ski Doo 900 turbo (he is still riding his Yamaha Sidewinder, but we’re making progress).
We were soon back on the road… time to get to our layover stop of Kingston. We trucked along pretty well, after our obligatory stop at the Duty Store to stock up on provisionals. The weather was mostly cloudy, mostly dry roads, and not much issues (shocking for this group), and arrived around 4:30pm.
We have 3 trucks and trailers, 13 riders, and all the excitement that our group of monkeys can handle. I stand corrected, we currently have 9 monkeys, as 4 of our chimps have been in Quebec since Saturday (Connecticut Jim, Bond… Dylan Bond, Rob, and ChipDip are getting some pre ride fun in already). This group arrived in our usual layover of Kingston ON, around 4:30pm today. We are currently gathered at the Boston Pizza across the parking lot from our room at the Courtyard by Marriott. A new decade, same scenery.
We have 3 new members in the group this year, and we will introduce you to them when I have more time and less technical issues than I have had tonight. But so far the group is excited and anticipating a good ride.
(To bring you up to date, I have had to depart the Boston Pizza and revert back to the hotel lobby bar for better wifi service. If these technical issues do not improve soon, you may all be left behind, just saying… facts ain’t funny)
We are expecting 3-6 inches of snow overnight. Hopefully we have decent travel conditions on our way to Pont Rouge, a familiar place to us, and a great place for a home cooked meal.
Tune in tomorrow to see how things go…
in the mean time…
Double Double, and Cheers,
Stick
A nomad is a wanderer...an individual (our a group,) who have no particular home but wander around the country season to season, place to place, just winging it.
