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Things you learn in the first month of travel

Dumb moves and comments by us and many others

Normally I wouldn't recommend putting Coffee on pancakes, but in a pinch it works. – Dusty Calfee, CO

If you can't get your bike off of the center stand because of the load of crap you have on it, it's too much. –Bill Besher, CO

Less than 10 psi in you front tire of a heavily loaded bike is not a good idea at 90+ mph for 1200 miles. "It's supposed to be at 28, you're running at less than 10. One pothole or perhaps a bump and you would have been a gonner!" - triumph technician, SF,CA
- But it can be done!! – Bill

"You two like the same postcards? You're like, soul mates!" - Desk Clerk in Wyoming hotel speaking of her co-worker and me. - Bill

Don't smoke a cigarette while standing over the loading port of the diesel fuel tank at the gas station. Even in WY they don't like that. - Bill

12 hours and 700+ miles in one day my cause permanent nerve damage to your ass! - Dusty

SF does have men in a thong and chaps at the late nightclubs.

Drinking more than 12 Red Bulls in an evening my cause violent illness. Right Sino!!

Salt Lake City’s Great Salt Lake’s salty banks taste like salt. – Dusty

When your cooling fan shits the bed, you'll cover tollbooth workers in a cloud of acrid burning coolant. They still want your money.

Australians will believe that if you are from CO and have a scar, it is from a bear attack. – Dusty, Beachcomber Island Fiji

Drinking more than 20 bowls of Kava in one my cause sudden flashes of numbness throughout your mouth for weeks. – Bill, Beachcomber Island, Fiji

Starring at a setting sun through a sophisticated lens, no mater how beautiful will still cause blindness. – Bill, Manta Ray Island, Fiji

Mosquitoes in Fiji, although small, and nearly invisible to the naked eye (even John's) still bite.

They bite Bill more.

Shark's teeth appear larger at depth.

Pohms (Prisoner of Her Majesty's Service) are easily identified by a sunburn painful to the eye.

Apparently not all Dutch people wear wooden shoes.

A cell phone in the states is dirt-cheap.

Women find a dirty, smelly man unattractive.

A dirty, smelly man with a motorcycle is rugged and appealing.

"Kava makes a man strong - all night." – Mr. Cool

“You’re going for a hike in the rainforest? Why don’t you find a feral horse, it would be much easier than walking.” – girl behind desk at Hot Rock Hostel, Rotorua, NZ

“What does DC stand for?” – Crackhead
“District of Colombia.” – Bill
“What does BC stand for?” – Crackhead
“British Colombia.” - Bill
“Oh, I thought it was for before Christ. That is what they taught us in school.” - Crackhead

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