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Some friends and I are starting to plan our annual bike trip. We will be heading out from central MN, and riding in SD, WY and MT over the course of ten days. Those of you that travel on motorcycle like this, what are you using for a travel humidor to carry and protect your cigars?
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You go to the dollar store. You score a batch of these Pirouette cookies. You eat them (not bad duty). You stick six or eight gars in each can. You roll some electrical tape around the seam just to make sure the cap doesn't slide off. You're good. Works perfect. If you want overkill you can drop a small boveda in there. I am more likely to use scrap leaf. But I can tell you that the leaf never dries in there, so it stays hermetically sealed. Don't really need to worry about humidibiddity. I have gone camping two and a half weeks, across country a month, up and down the parkway any number of times, etc.... no prob.
Be sure to take several extra cans of gars just for give-aways. I like to tote bomblets of assorted mild, each with a bic, a boveda, and a cheap cutter. Works great for the camper by the bonfire who says "That smells good.". You hand him a can and say "Here. Deal with it.".
Enjoy.
What are you riding?
Remember to consider how hot it will be wherever you pack it.
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Im in Northern Colorado and not far from the Wyoming border. Depending on when you will be in Wyoming and where we might be able to meet up on the bikes for a cigar.
Brett
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Any little canister which can keep wafer cookies dry as toast will keep your gars at the same humidibiddity you stuffed them in with. Specially since you only open a new can each day or two. I like simple cheap solutions. Most guys assume that elaborate and costly solutions are better because they are elaborate and costly. I'd rather spend the money stuffing more cans with which to bomb passersby. I have a little project which I have carried forward each year since I began smoking gars. I call it Johnny Sotweedseed. I ride the Appalachians planting the joy of the sotweed gar the same way Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees. Try it. Sow a can or three. It's great fun when you're touring meeting new friends round the bonfire, and such.
Just make sure the garbombs you give away are mild enough for a newb.
Didnt think spring was going to arrive this year, but it’s looking up. Getting new rear skin swapped out on Saturday. Get her thrown back together, and maybe take a quick spin this weekend. Lots of sand down yet though!
Posting crap like that, when a person is so broke down, they can't ride anymore.
That's just mean, I tell ya, mean.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Just last weekend I ran into my old riding buddy Dave. In his yoot he was a flat track racer, broke so many bones even his wife can't count em. Pins and schidt every long bone in his body. Finally, he settled down when the price of tires put him out of racing, to a life as a prototype machinist at the U of D, humping steel around the shop. The U made him quit. Both knees replaced, Several shoulder surgeries. Back fused a half dozen times. Hobbles round looking at his shoes like the ghost of professor Irwin Corey. I met him at our local BMW motorcycle club's spring wrenching fest. He rode up from halfway down the state on his BMW R90 he won last year on a lottery.
He's riding, you can ride.
Dust it off and go get some air in your armpits.
If he lived in an area where it's 50 degrees and raining all the time, it would affect him.....a lot.
Once I get out of this craphole place, I may see how my body takes it and may look into a different bike.
For now, the years have take their toll on this body and it's a daily ritual just to work on heavy equipment. When I go to work, I usually smell like a pharmacy on a mint farm. LOL!
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Funny you talk about rain... I call Dave RainMan, cause it always rains when he goes. He and his wife rode 34 days across country on their Wing. It rained, sleeted, snowed, or a combo of all three, 31 days out of the 34. The three days it didn't were when they were staying at their son's house in Washington. Wife and I rode with them to visit Falling Waters, the Frank Lloyd Wright house built over a stream in SW PA. Figured with a destination like Falling Waters it only made sense to talk RainMan into coming along. Boy, what a frog strangler that was! And on the way back... snow!
Rather live on the Oregon coast, tho, cause it's pretty as can be there.
Wife just had the battery replaced in the nerve stimulator implanted in her butt. You ever tried anything like that?
Zero? What's the verdict? Inquiring minds want to know!
OK, show of hands. Who thinks Zero should get his butt stimulated?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Meanwhile, after a total rebuild of the right shoulder, total replacement of the left knee, back injury that still hurts 40 years later, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, baldness, flatulence, and living in TN where the humidity rarely falls below 90% summer or winter, I do still get out and ride. I don't think I can compete with @webmost or his superhuman friend, but not-riding will happen soon enough, when I'm not-breathing.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
She says it works. Certainly missed it when the battery got old.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
See me lit up like a christmas tree.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
94
years
old.
Still riding.
My Hero!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain