I'm a proud Papa!

Not of a kid or anything... but of this little sweetie! Her name is Charlotte. I got her in Charlotte. She's a 1997 Kawasaki Concours.

I guess I should back up some. About 3 months ago, 4 of us at the office were talking about how cool it would be to take a cross country trip on a motorcycle. We were inspired by Ewan McGregor's Long Way Around documentary.

We talked about it, waffled back and forth on the idea, and much to all of our suprise, we all bought bikes last week. It just kind of happened really. We had no hard plans to buy bikes that week. We went to look at one nearby and within 24 hours, 3 of them had bikes. I didn't get mine until about 72 hours later. The strange thing is that my dad called me out of the blue and told me he was going to Charlotte to pick up a motorcycle that saturday. I had just gotten off the phone with a guy in Charlotte about one I was interested in (as my 3 co-workers had just scarfed up all the used Concours in the Atlanta area). I didn't even know dad was in the market, let alone looking in Charlotte. Well, he and I ended up going to Charlotte and picking up our bikes together (with a good buddy of mine named Mark - the same one who went to Origins with me - to whom I will forever be in debt).

No. I don't have a license. No. I don't even have a learners permit yet. But, I DO have a cool yellow helmet and a matching jacket :)

We are all planning to take a basic motorcycle riders course next month and after that, we'll have our licenses. Should be a good time. When's the trip cross country trip you ask? After the class... sometime after the class....