Looks like more miles in 2015 than in 2014

Here’s a photo Maria shot with her iPhone at 6:14 a.m. July 20 when I left for Billings, Mont.

This has been a rather modest motorcycling year, compared with a decade ago, but it promises to be better than last year.

I tallied my 2015 mileage to date yesterday – 4,767 miles – and found it’s only 308 miles short of the 5,075 miles I rode (on both BMWs) in all of 2014.

There are two more rallies on my calendar – the BMW RA rally in Harrison, Ark., and the Falling Leaf Rally in Potosi, Mo. – which will add at least 718 miles to my total.

Far short of enough to earn me a 10,000-mile award from the Indianapolis BMW Club, but somewhat less embarrassing than last year.