First Adventure On New Four Wheeler

Yesterday Landon and I had the day off together, FINALLY! Our schedules have been opposite this whole month! So, since we only had yesterday to get out and enjoy some time together we thought no better way than to take out the new four wheeler on a ride. We packed up the Escape' (like Dorey says it on Finding Nemo lol) and the trailer and headed out. Since we weren't going to be able to stay over night somewhere we decided to keep it close. We went to a nonexistant town called Delle. I say nonexistant, but it might as well be. I think the only thing it consists of is one gas station. On our way out there we had a little accident. One of the wheel covers on the trailer snapped off and flew on the side of the highway. That was mishap number one. Once we got out there we had a great time. The weather was perfect. It was a little overcast so it wasn't so scorching hot and there were only about 6 other people there. I have never really rode four wheelers on open land like that. I have always grown up riding on 4x4's in the mountains. This was a nice change. There were some fun hills we played on and then we went out to some open ground and raced each other. We wanted to test the four wheeler to see how it matched up to Landon's dirt bike. I tell ya what, it is VERY quick! It stayed pretty close to him. After me winning nearly every race ;-) we headed back to the car to head out. We stopped at a gas station to clean off the bikes then went to visit Landon's dad and step mom since Delle is so close to them. As we were on our way to their house, after washing the bikes off, we had our second mishap. As we were just going into Landon's dad's neighborhood Landon's dirt bike flew off the trailer. We think it was a combination of the wetness from the wash down and some tie downs we had bought from Walmart. The bike was still hanging on by two of our good tie downs by the time we saw it dragging. It was dragging for a total of about 5-10 seconds, so not too long thank goodness. Luckily enough there wasn't anything broken on the dirt bike. It has a few scratches on the plastics, seat and handle bars, but there's no serious damage. Needless to say, we were frightened to make the journey home after that. Landon went and bought some more of the better tie downs we had gotten from Steadman's and triple strapped them both down. The dirt bike was tied down so tight it looked about 2 feet shorter than it normally was. Beside my extreme anxiety, we made it home okay. So, one fun first day of riding with some very interesting turns along the way. We hope that our next riding trip won't consist of any of those intersting turns. We got some fun pics, but I will have to put them up later.