From 100F to 42F!

Saturday April 9, 2011

We knew a storm was blowing in and we’d get some rain and cooler temperatures but this is ridiculous!  Once again we have the heater on.  One week ago when we came it was unbearably hot and now…..too cold.  You just can’t win.  It wasn’t a terrible day yesterday just windy and really,really windy by the end of the day.  Eric has been on the computer and phone trying to untangle the web of information about buying a bike new or used in Arizona or any other state.  We can’t buy a new bike in the U.S. and export it to Canada without first registering it in any state and paying the sales tax and this is a Harley requirement.   We can buy a used one here in Arizona and not pay the tax if we have it shipped to California for pick-up.  That may happen once we look at a few used bikes from dealers, crunch the numbers and see how it all shakes out.  Eric is half blind from looking at the lap top and I have just been doing what ever.  We looked at moving farther north to Idaho or Oregon to look at bikes but it is just too cold.  We really can’t leave here until it warms up a little and if we are going to bike shop it may as well be somewhere warm.  Okay, so it’s actually really cold right now and it poured rain all night but it is going to warm up over the next couple of days! 

We stopped over and said good-bye to Betty and Boomer at Tower Point late yesterday as they were supposed to leave for home today.  I don’t know if they did but it would have been snowing in Flagstaff and they were considering holding off for a day or two.  Up in Ely,Nevada (7000ft) where we go north it is down to 20F at night.  Too cold for the rig.  We will wait. 

Tomorrow we’ll go out with our buddy Ken and look at a few used bikes and try to figure this whole thing out.  I think we are going to need a spread sheet to figure out the costs. 

Stay tuned, we may buy a bike yet.  Even if we don’t we could write a brochure on the whole stupid process.