Yesterday was the first day of winter. Fierce winter storms and unusually cold temperatures smothered the northwest these past few days. Portland, OR recorded the most snow fall on record since 1968!
Sure it’s not like the -40 degrees which northern Maine is experiencing, but none the less it’s cold with gusting winds, power outages, more than a foot of snow with ½ inch of freezing rain crust across the entire metro area.
I fired up the 4×4 and drove through the wintery mix to Paradise Harley-Davidson and took the above photo. A memorable photo as it’s not something we see unless you’re in Montana or Northern Idaho!
Clearly this does not help the motorcycle sales situation…but does make for a great snow filled Christmas.
No matter where the snow, it still seems to stop us from riding …. dang shame.
After the third day of shoveling snow out of our driveway, the wife and I were seriously considering getting the hell out of Dodge and heading to Arizona. She said something that would be worthy of Forrest Gump; “You don’t have to shovel sun!”