Off topic

Uncamonkey, we know that you are at least a bit off. However, I do not think that driving long distances at night is a silly thing. I always try to drive at night when I travel a long ways. When it is just me & the truckers, we all play nice & my stress level is way down.

The only drawback to driving at night is that I do not get to see some of the gorgeous scenery that we have "out west" here. 

While I no linger own a CB, I used to have one in all of my long distance rigs. I loved just listening to the drivers talk back & forth. One can gain some good information about road conditions that way. Other information can be had as well.

Mark, I have been known to straddle the lanes in that situation as well, but only if I am driving a full sized pickup or a bigger rig. Never on my motorcycle. It does help the traffic flow.

Here in the Atlanta area we are the southeast distributor for driving morons, especially the "divebombers" that cut in at the last second only to cause the everyone else to brake hard to gain back our safety space.

Whenever I rode my motorcycle a long distance, I always liked to ride through small towns late at night.  I don't know why, I just liked it. 

I drove my YJ back to Ohio for Thanksgiving in 1999; I left Colorado Springs about 8 PM in a snowstorm and went over to Limon to pick up I-70.  When I got on the Interstate, I was driving the only vehicle heading east.  I saw plenty of cars going west, but nobody else going east for at least four hours.  I wondered if everyone going west knew something I didn't...   

CBs I guess they are very differently looked upon in my world. As a construction Dump truck and pup driver. In a normal work day I might be on the CB as much as 15min an hour. Be it with a gravel pit loader operator or scale master (typically a pretty young woman) or with Asphalt plant operators or maybe just bullsh*tting with other drivers. Perhaps the most important thing we use them for is talking to our pilot cars and flaggers. Which can actually be life and death. Working where we have to cross lanes or in areas with very limited sight line distance we have to know what's coming. The CB works so well for this as instant communication with everyone on the channel.

Going to be a souped up Cobra 29 either the older side mic I have or a new 29 LTD depending on how the side mic fits in my proposed radio console. In CHUG as well as a 10 meter or GMRS radio and the little Pioneer digital stereo receiver.

For three years my only transportation was a 1971 Triumph Tiger or a Bonneville. I rode those things through all kinds of weather. Snow in the Sierra Nevada & Cascade mountains are a given in the winter & often was present in spring & autumn.

I often rode at night. Sometimes, I would just go for a ride & not return to my bed for a few nights. I loved it.

Like Ol' Unreliable, " Whenever I rode my motorcycle a long distance, I always liked to ride through small towns late at night.  I don't know why, I just liked it."

That time of night was also my favorite time to travel long distances, especially in the desert. I always got a longing feeling & wondered what the folks living in those houses felt about themselves & their lifestyles. I always hoped that all was well with them.

Hell, you-all have me wanting to get out one of my bikes & go for a ride. It is half past midnight now & snowing lightly right now. However, I know that we had freezing rain this afternoon. I will just sit here & reminisce. No sense in trying to cheat death tonight.