AN EVEN DOZEN--COUPLES' TRIP UPDATE

A full carton of eggs (WNR) left Casey's Wednesday night for a loop through Spring Grove.  Bob R led on his Wing followed by Darrel on his GW trike, Meryle & Mary on a GW trike, Wayne & Sandy on a GW trike, Jim & Cathy on their Wing, Dayton & Joan on their Harley trike, Lois on her Susie, and Chuckles on his Yamaha.

AN EVEN DOZEN SHOW UP

GOOD TO SEE MERYLE & MARY AGAIN ALONG WITH DARREL

JOAN TELLING ABOUT THEIR TRIP TO COLORADO

JIM SHOWING THE FINE POINTS OF A WING TO CHUCKLES

Our trip took us up HWY 76 north to CR 7 just north of Eitzen.  7 took us west over to HWY 44 and on into Spring Grove.  We normally stop at the Kwik Trip there, but it's getting dark earlier now, so we kept on moving.  Outside of Spring Grove we turned south on CR 8 which turns into Locust Road in Iowa.  We turned off of Locust and headed east on Big Canoe Road that turns into Bear Creek Drive (CR A26).  Along Bear Creek we could see more of the damage to crops caused by the recent flooding.  After crossing HWY 76, we continued on A26 now changing to Iowa River Drive.  Again we saw numerous places where the flooding had damaged crops.  Iowa River Drive took us over to Lycurgus Road and as we followed it to HWY 9, we were treated to a spectacular sunset and a full moon rising at the same time.  We reached HWY 9 and took Iron Mine Drive and 76 back to Main St. in Waukon and to Gus & Tony's where we discussed where an order of cheese curds should be set down.  It was really a nice late summer ride, and I had about 88 miles on the Wing.

SHUFFLING INTO G & T 's.......

UNDER A RISING MOON

COUPLES' TRIP UPDATE
We have seven couples going to New Ulm this weekend.  We have changed the departure time to 9 AM instead of 10.  Blame Fideldee Fart!  At any rate it's KSU, BOT, and BISV at 9 from Casey's.  I have planned to tour the Schell Brewery there, so I called to make reservations for the 4 PM tour for us.  I found out that it can't be done that way. The tour reservations are on a "first come--first serve" basis, so you have to be there Saturday morning at 11 AM to make sure you get tickets.  Now what?  Since it would be impractical, if not impossible, for us to be there at 11 Saturday morning, I had to decide if we still wanted to go to New Ulm or just pass up the brewery tour.  After doing some hard thinking, I did what any GWRRA member might do for needed help.  I looked in the Gold Book.  It lists GWRRA members all over the country who might be willing to help if you are having bike troubles.  Low and behold, I found two members who live in New Ulm.  Now how was I going to convince someone who didn't know me from Adam to spend some of his time and money to go get 14 tickets?  I couldn't get a hold of the first name listed, so I called the second person.  He was in Branson, MO, on a bike trip when he answered.  I explained the situation to him, and he said he would take care of it for me!  He called me back later to tell me that he contacted another GWRRA member in New Ulm and he would get us the tickets.  I haven't heard back from him yet, but it sounded like they would take care of us.  Needless to say I will pick up the tickets from them when we get to New Ulm and pay for them, and I also invited them and their wives to our snack party at the motel later.  It just goes to show that the old saying, "You meet the nicest people on a Honda." holds true!

It's supposed to be a nice weekend, so see you all on Saturday morning at 9.