THE "OTHER" ARLINGTON

While it's not the home of the National Cemetery, Arlington is a nice little northeast Iowa town we journeyed to on Wednesday night.  We had 6 bikes, we had 2 trikes, and we had 2 convertibles make the trip with 14 riders.  Bugsy and Helen were in the Bugsmobile, Dale and Mike in the convertible, Wayne & Sandy and Meryle were on trikes, and Jim & Cathy, Chuckles, Lois, David, Gary, and Bob R on bikes.

We left Casey's on HWY 9 west under partly cloudy skies and a temperature of 72.  We then picked up Centennial Road near Decorah and then on into Ossian.  From Ossian we continued on county roads and picked up HWY 150 near Eldorado.  We stayed on 150 through West Union and on past Fayette where we took county roads to HWY 187 and on into Arlington.  We stopped at Charley's One Stop for a break and some treats.

After the break we stayed on county roads back through Volga, Wadena, Elgin, and Clermont.  At Clermont we picked up a county road that took us to the suburbs of Gunder and then on into Postville where we got on HWY 51.  From 51 we headed south to HWY 9 again and then onto Old Stage Road and to Gus & Tony's.

Who said there are no good motorcycle roads in Iowa!!??  We put on about 125 miles on some great scenic roads here in northeast Iowa.  Maybe someone should let our tourism people know!

WARNING

On Sunday the 19th we have our "You Gotta Love Summer" Pizza Run scheduled.  If you don't like homemade pizza, if you don't like beautiful southwest Wisconsin curvy back roads, if you don't care for spectacular green scenery, and if you don't like hand dipped ice cream, then this ride is not for you!  
However if you do like any of the above we will be departing Casey's at 11 AM that day.


Here's some shots from the Arlington ride Wednesday night.

THE GROUP GATHERS

WE GOT TRIKES

WE GOT CONVERTIBLES

WE GOT "OLD HIPPIES"

WE GOT COWBOYS

WE GOT THE BUGSMOBILE

HELEN TELLING BUGSY THAT HE HAS TO GO FASTER THAN 45 TO KEEP UP

CHUCK THINKS THEY SHOULD CALL THE PLACE "CHUCKLES ONE STOP".

WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?!

DAVID AFTER POLISHING OFF A QUART OF CHOCOLATE MILK

AND THEY DO HONOR THE VETERANS IN THE "OTHER" ARLINGTON