Hi, Guys and Gals. Temps were to be in the mid 90s today (and are!) so we were up at 6:30 and headed back at 8 this morning and got home about 11AM.
It was a great trip. About 620 miles altogether. Sue and I hooked up with "euro-rider" and his wife, (AKA Dustin and Jessie) who live in Circleville, by email via triumphrat.net, and they came to the motel Saturday morning bright and early and took us on a neat 110 mile tour of some of the great roads in the Hocking Hills, that we would not likely have found without them! Thanks much, you two!! Hope you can make the July 8th ride up here!!
Riding down Friday it was spitting off and on and not too bad. We had on our Nitro rain suits and some sealskin socks in our boots and I was commenting to Sue at one stop that these were great rain protection: it hadn't really rained. Should have kept my mouth shut! Between Lancaster and Circleville we ran into the mother of all thundershowers. Five minutes of riding on the side of the road about 20-30 mph and getting drenched by the cages passing on the highway like it wasn't raining. If there had been ANY turnoffs we would have, but that stretch was nada. So on we trecked. At first side road we stopped, wiped out our glasses, shields, etc and were ready for more. So the sun came out! With the sun and heat we were dry before we hit the motel. Not bad.
The rest of the time we rode 85-120 mile "loops" in all directions from Chillicothe. Nice. Good roads. Pretty hilly country.
Hated to come back, but work beckons. Glad to be with you all again.
BTW: saw several deer but they all stayed where they belonged. Coming home a blackbird flew up from the side of the road and killed himself on my helmet. Felt bad about the bird, but better for me a bird than a deer!!
Monte
