
I started off Friday with installing a 2 inch lift kit on my Honda Foreman four wheeler. While installing the lift kit I also fired up the bar-b-que. I went to pick up some steaks at the local meat market and stumbled across some smoked rabbit sausage. Talk about good stuff. It would be even better in gravy. Rabbit is a pretty lean critter to cooking it on the grill.
The reason I installed a lift kit was in preparation for trail riding Saturday at
Willow Eddie Island ATV trail in Topsy. A few co-workers and one ex-coworker went riding for about six hours. Not a bad place. The water was unusually low and the trails were nice riding. But there were still an abundance of mud holes to loose your four wheeler in. Under normal conditions, I would not want to go due to the amount of water on the trails. I do not enjoy using my four wheeler as a submarine. I would much rather watch other fools tear up there rides.
Good friends and good beer…it is hard to ask for more. I especially liked the sand bars. There were three of them. I have not gone swimming in many, many years. It has been decades since I have been swimming in a river. I did go Saturday; twice. After getting muddy from the trails and covered in dust, a cool down from the 95 degree heat in the Calcasieu River was welcomed.
It is amazing to me how much some one will spend on a four wheeler. I put tires, a winch, a rack, and a lift kit on mine so far. But there are others that spend more on accessories than they spent on the ATV purchase price. I have a four wheeler for hunting and trail riding. Others have them to see just how much mud they can go through. To each his own I reckon. I have no desire to abuse mine like others do. And yes, that is my four wheeler in the picture. Later.