THE PLACE=THE MYSTERY

A dozen riders lined up at Casey's Saturday afternoon to partake in the much-anticipated Mystery RTE.  We had Gary & Gloria join us on a newly acquired trike.  Like Dale said, "You can never have enough Gelos."  (Did he actually say that!).  Also on trikes were Darrel, Wayne & Sandy, and Bob & Julie.  Roger brought over his Spyder, and Chuckles and Jim were on bikes.  Dennis & Marlene drove the support convertible.

CHUCKLES SHOWS, BUT WE WANTED LOIS INSTEAD

GARY & GLORIA'S "NEW" RIDE

With only one knowing the mystery destination we left Casey's at 3:30 under partly cloudy skies and a comfortable 75 degrees.  Out on 76 south and onto Forest Mills Road we went past the Gelo ranch and turned onto Cherry Valley Drive.  We passed through Postville, onto HWY 18 west, and then turned south on the Gunder Road.  Gunder Road took us through Gunder and then a turn on Agate Road took us down to Elgin.  In Elgin we found a newly paved Golden Road that took us just outside of West Union and on into Casey's there for a short break.

NO, CHUCKLES, THIS IS NOT OUR MYSTERY DESTINATION

After a brief break, we passed through West Union and turned onto HWY 150 heading south.  150 took us through Festina and Calmar before we turned onto HWY 325 and into Spillville where a huge crowd was gathered for the fireworks show at dark.  Passing on through Spillville we turned onto the Dvorak Memorial Highway and rode it onto Protivin and The Place, our mystery destination.  

PARKING IN DOWNTOWN PROTIVIN

ROGER SAYS, "WE MUST HAVE TAKEN THE SHORT-CUT TO GET HERE!"

We go inside and place our orders.

It took a while, but when we got our food, it was very good.  In fact, it was the biggest fish sandwich I had ever seen!  There was a very good crowd inside, and I think they probably could use some more help serving food.
After leaving The Place we headed north out of town on Willow Avenue and followed it on into Cresco.  In Cresco we turned onto HWY 9 east and followed it though town.  On the outside of town we went straight ahead onto Pole Line Road.  PLR proved to be a nice smooth ride into Decorah, but we did spot a few deer on the way.  Fortunately they were quite a ways from the roadway.  In Decorah we picked up HWY 9 again and Darrel and Roger dropped out to head home.  The rest of us followed HWY 9 back to Waukon.  We clocked 133 miles on the trike on a very pleasant Saturday afternoon.