We purchased a Bushtec trailer a couple of years ago and this is our first long trip pulling it. These trailers are very well built and other than having to be a little more careful when backing up and dropping my fuel mileage by about 3 MPG, I don't know it's back there.
We've had a couple of tire failures on past trips and felt that they were attributable to overloading the bike with all our gear. With the trailer we still take about the same amount of gear but 90% of it is in the trailer so there is very little weight on the bike other than the two of us.
We are running a little bit ahead of schedule, we were planning to spend the night in Monroe Louisiana but we got there about 3 PM and didn't feel like stopping for the day. We did make a stop in West Monroe though to visit the Duck Commander / Buck Commander Store.
We didn't see any of the Robertson family but we saw them pictured in several different areas. The store is actually in one corner of the "factory" featured on the Duck Dynasty TV show. Jane posed next to a couple of the pictures of the cast members.
Jane and Uncle Si.
Jane and the whole Robertson crew.
Jane with Willie and Uncle Si.
This appeared to be a large painted wood carving of Jep.
We ended our day in Shreveport Louisiana.
