Well, observant readers will notice there is a missing year in this on and off chronicle.  Yes, we have now skipped over 2013 in its entirety and landed smack dab in the middle of 2014.  What happened!? Well PROJECTS piled up and I needed to take a year off from fooling around and pay attention to doing stuff.  So, while all stuff is not done, progress has been made......soooooo! Here we go again.

Around and about June 3 I'm hopping aboard the FLTRU Road Glide Ultra and aiming its two headlights at Scituate Massachusetts, where I have  scheduled an evening to sit and listen to Mr. Greg Brown.  Like you, I too had never heard of Scituate Mass, although a friend from Boston says its quite famous (she didn't say for what).  However, my general plan called for me to be in the area of the East Coast of the USA on or about June 15, and that is when Mr. Greg Brown is appearing at the River Club Music Hall in said Scituate, Mass. So, that's where I'm going to be too.

This is all by way of my eventually arriving at the nominal objective of this trip, which will be attending the 11th annual Road King Riders Rendezvous, to be held this year in Matamoras PA.  Like you, I too had never heard of Matamoras PA, but between June 16 and 21 that is where approximately 67 Road King Riders will be on approximately 53 motorcycles.  It once was the case that each of these motorcycles would be Harley-Davidson Road Kings, and the riders mostly participants in the Road King Riders Internet Forum.  To satisfy mutual curiosities about who their internet correspondents were and how they could possibly hold the ridiculous opinions expressed in the quasi-anonymous ether of the net, these folks decided that an annual face-to-face showdown would be a good idea.  Despite all evidence to the contrary, that has remained the collective view.  However, as the group has evolved fewer and fewer Road Kings show up, having been displaced in greater and greater numbers over the years by 'geezer glides'--such as the FLTRU Road Glide Ultra upon which this geezer will ride in.  This year the event takes place in Matamoras, PA, I believe, for the simple reason that that is the point where three states --NY, NJ and PA--collide.  Whether Matamoras is the product of negotiated border war settlements, or something more exciting, will be reported on by yrs. truly later.

To get there, I am planning pretty much of a beeline route through the heart of America so as to reconnect with old friends in the land of Oz and neighboring flat places.  From there, I divert slightly to accomplish two objectives: 1) visiting my fondest cousin in Canton NY and 2) to mix some Pacific Ocean salt water with some Atlantic Ocean water as a souvenir.  I am looking for a suitable vessel for this stuff, something more meaningful than a urine sample bottle, yet easily packed and transported.
Suggestions are welcome.

More tomorrow on the problem inherent to this trip:  How does one pack a motorcycle for a one month camping trip across the country and also leave room to take a guitar and camera/lens system, thus enabling me to enjoy three avocations in one trip.  That is the puzzle.  Check in again to see if it has been solved!