Surprised Me

Surfing the internet from time to time provides you with a surprise or two. I own a motorcycle. I have for many years. There is something about riding that to me is closely associated with dogs. You take a drive in your car and roll down the window a bit and the first thing that happens is your dog sticks his head out the window. I would drive that way in the summer but I'm just not that flexible. Never have been. There may or may not be legal issues involved in driving with your head out the car window. Probably not an area of law I wish to explore.

 There is a happy man and a happy dog.

Just a great film and a great American adventure.

The article I ran across on the internet had to do with the 50 states being ranked for highest level of motorcycle ownership. This is not number of motorcycles but number of persons per motorcycle. As you would expect California and Florida would rank one and two as far as the number of motorcycles. When you look at how many people there are per mototcycle in California it is 47 and in Florida it is 33. In this method their respective ranks were 43 and 24. The states in the top three surprised me. Number 3 was Iowa with one motorcyle for each 18 residents. Coming in at number 2 was New Hampshire with one motorcycle for each 17 residents. The winner was South Dakota with one per each 12 residents. The national average is one motorcycle per 36 residents. While technically not a state the District of Columbia ranked dead last with one motorcyle for each 172 residents. It should tell us a little something. Perhaps we should look at who we are sending to Congress and the White House. Forget things like race and gender maybe it is time for a few bikers in D.C.