When we first started doing long rides, Jim would create CDs, sometimes with certain themes for the ride. The only problem is that from time to time, we would pull over to the shoulder of the road, open the Harley’s trunk to change the CD. I would hold the trunk top that has two pieces of luggage bungee corded down on it. (It was heavy.) Jim would take out the CD holder and decide which one he wanted to listen to. We did this on the 2007 trip to California. We also did this on some of the shorter rides.
In 2009, I gave him an IPod for his birthday. This makes listening to Road Songs much, much easier. He has over 700 songs on his IPod. Each night, we make sure that it is charged, (along with my IPhone, the still camera, the video camera and the GPS). The IPod has a connection on the Harley Davidson Motorcycle so that sound comes from the Motorcycle’s speakers. It sounds fantastic now; we can ride & listen to great music for hours without pulling over and changing a CD. He has several genres of music such as: Oldies, Motown, Jazz and Rhythm & Blues. We listened to artists such as Bill Withers, Gil Scott Heron, Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago, Boney James, War and Sade only to name a few. I like Peace at Least by The Rotary Connection and Grandma’s Hands by Bill Withers. Some of the other songs I like are: Walking in the Rain, Pieces of a Man, Happy Music, Harlem River Drive, Que Sera Sera and The Boys are back in Town by the Bus Boys. I have not heard the Double Dutch Bus song in years until this ride. How many of you jumped Double Dutch in your youth? On our last trip, we listened to Pacific Coast Highway by Jeff Lorber, especially since we were there, and our theme song was, CRAZY by Joe McBride. Are we crazy? Who knows?
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