I jumped at the chance to ride in something I have only seen in the movies.
On Day 18 of Putting It In Park, I hop on the sidecar of a Russian Ural motorcycle.
As we roll through West Mobile, we look a little like the cartoon Snoopy with Woodstock in the sidecar.
James says he gets stares and questions all the time. "People ask me if I drove it from Russia to here. I said its sorta hard getting it over the ice of the Bering Strait."
Instead, James bought his 2005 model on a website for 11-thousand bucks. You can get more info on the Ural bikes by clicking here
The desert camouflage-colored sidecar has everything you could possibly need. James points out all the amenities. "I've got a shovel, extra gas if I ever need it, a mount for a machine gun, a spotlight." Did I hear that correctly? I repeat what he just told me. "A machine gun?" He chuckles, 'A machine gun, yeah. The traffic gets bad around here."
The eye-catching Russian ride gets 32 miles a gallon. James says it beats driving his pick-up that gets only 17 miles a gallon.

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