1590 miles so far on the Iron 883

Hooray, I rode my motorcycle over 1,500 miles so far. Got it in August, then had a supposed broken toe and was off the bike... went on vacation for a week in September.... But generally, if it's nice out, and I've got no meetings or work to do in a day, and it's not going to rain, I ride, ride, ride! (Funny how when you have one whole day off a week, it rains on that day, whether it's Sunday or Tuesday, dammit.)

One day off I rode 180 miles nowhere in particular, just wanted to enjoy the October scenery down here in southern Maryland. (Well, that day I decided to try my first bridge crossing, so I went over the Harry Nice Bridge into Virginia and poked around in those parts a little.) The most challenging part of it was paying the toll right before the bridge... very old-fashioned feeling on a motorcycle.

Probably one of the coolest things that happened so far when I was on my bike was that I found myself chatting with a stranger in bumper-to-bumper traffic the other night. There I was in stop-and-go traffic on the GW Parkway (due to construction constriction), and a fella on a Harley Sportster 1200 pulled up alongside me to chat. Fun to meet another Sportster rider along the way. When traffic cleared, he was off like a shot without a goodbye. I wonder how many other riders I'll meet in my future years on the bike?