Here's to Mike!

Some of us out here on the road are a little hardier than others. A guy pulled into the Roswell campground a few nights ago, just before the snow warning I posted a few entries back, riding a motorcycle and packing a tent. The temperatures have been dipping down around minus 3 Celcius, not including the wind chill. We noted that last night he was hanging out in the wash house until late into the night, which is nicely heated and has a table and chairs and magazines, plus pop and snack machines, to amuse oneself while doing the laundry.

Above: Mike's tent, which he moved into the adobe pavilion last night to try to keep out of the wind and cold a little better :)

We got to chatting with him this morning as he was breaking camp, and turns out he's from West Virginia. He sold his house and is on the road (sound familiar?), only he's traveling alone and hopes to be doing this for an entire year, making his way south, then eastwards, then north through BC to Alaska. He's been doing this for two months so far, and has had some wild shit happen, like being robbed at gunpoint outside a New Orleans blues joint, and having his bike almost stolen outside a Mississippi motel. He was headed west through Ruidoso to Alamagordo, NM, today, just before another huge snowstorm is supposed to hit here tomorrow. Via con dios, Mike! We are thinking about you and wish you happy trails. Maybe you'll be passing through our area of BC this fall, and we'll get the chance to meet up again!

Above: Mike heading out to Alamagordo White Sands this morning