RIDE REPORT FROM FLORIDA and RIDE REPORT FROM WAUKON!!

Happy Leap Day!!  We will be starting back to Waukon from Florida tomorrow by cutting through South Carolina to see Julie's sister.  Everyone has been asking about the weather here.  All I can say is that we've put close to 3,000 miles on the trike here in February, so the weather can't have been too bad.  It's been a little too cold to suit the natives though.  It will be 72 degrees when we pull out tomorrow.

Now for some ride reports--and first from Waukon!  Chuckles and Jim ventured out last Saturday in a winter thaw.  Glad to hear about it.  Even though it wasn't a Wednesday night, it still counts!  Here's their report and photo.  Where's the snow?!

Two of the WNR, having a severe case of PMS, took advantage of the Saturday Feb. 27th sunshine & temps in the 50's to take the maiden voyage of the season.  It was a beautiful ride up to LaCrosse on the Wisconsin side with lots of activity on the river, some on boats and some on the ice.  The return trip was down the Minnesota side with snow still in the trees.  Chuckles & Jim clocked in over 100 miles.  So the season begins........

NICE NECKEE, CHUCKLES!

SPEAKING OF PMS--DON'T FORGET THE PMS MEETING ON MARCH 16TH!!  YOU WILL GET YOUR OFFICIAL INVITATIONS BY MAIL WHEN I GET BACK.


I do have room to tell you about one of our rides here in Florida.  Actually we ventured up into Enterprise, Alabama, to see the only statue dedicated to an insect.  Now tell me that I don't pick out some real adventures!  Enterprise, Alabama, is located about 80 miles north of Panama City Beach, and in the center of town, right on the main drag is a statue of a woman holding up a boll weevil.  It's really quite a tourist attraction and the radio station there even has the call letters--WVVL and there's a boll weevil mural painted on a nearby building!

Here's some photos of the only statue dedicated to a bug.

There are still some cotton fields located in the southern part of Alabama, but there are lots of peanut farms now too.  If they would just quit boiling the peanuts!