Love on a pair of two wheels.

I ride he rides what could be better but it started long before we had bikes. Riders who meet us assume we met through riding or that I learned to ride after years of riding on the back of my husband’s bike. Neither is true.

I have been married for under 3 years and riding for 4 but I have known I wanted to marry my husband since I was 16 not long after I met him.

My 19th birthday at Cedar Point

The really short version of the story is that we dated for a number of years often long distance. During that time we would both talk about riding when we grew up. We where going to get Harleys some day. Even when I was a teenage girl I wanted my own bike. When I was 20 he asked me to marry him and I said yes. When I was 21 I freaked out and ran off to save the world. I loved him very much but was young. I thought I had to choose between him and what I was feeling called to do with my life. It never occurred to me I could have both. Did I mention I was young? The saying youth is wasted on the young comes to mind. For a few years we tried to figure it out but at some point he decided that being my back up plan wasn’t very fun and he stopped talking to me. Who can blame  him ?

Rick and me with our first bikes

We went on with our lives and didn’t talk for 14 years. But once did talk again we knew we had never gotten over each other. Honestly, it took one phone call and it all came back to both of us. It took awhile for us to get back together but we knew right away. When we did get back together we both had motorcycles. I had a Harley Sporster 883 Custom named the red mistress and he had a Vulcan 1500 Classic. We now have different bikes since now I ride a 2011 Harley Deluxe and my husband rides a 2002 Harley Roadking Classic. 

Right after we eloped

On December 28, 2010, a month after we got back together, we secretly rode our two motorcycles to the courthouse and we eloped.  

Our beach ceremony at Lovers Key State park in FL

 A few months later  we had a ceremony on a beach for our close friends and family. I loved my beach ceremony but I wouldn’t give up the day it was just the two of us eloping on our motorcycles.

Since then we have riding our bikes all over the place.

We have taken 12 multi-day and multi-state trips. Many of them involved camping off of the bikes.

Sturgis 2011

Me on the Tail of the Dragon

The most epic of these trips was our honeymoon that was a 4700 mile, 14 state, 21 day trip that included 9 days camping at the sturgis rally and also riding the tail of the dragon on the way home to Maryland.

Rick on the Tail of the Dragon 

 

I am going to try to tell some of our crazy riding stories on this blog. Needless to say we have a number of lost years to make up for. and have the joy of living our lives out on a pair of two wheels.