With some sprinkles in the air in Waukon around 5 o'clock, I had my doubts if anyone would be riding tonight. By the way, the "hippy. dippy" weather forecast said no rain until late Wednesday night. I guess 5 PM must be late at night!
When I arrived as Casey's I found Chuck (not Chuckles) with his Harley trike, and Darrel with his Gold Wing trike ready to ride.
Checking the skies, going north looked like the best bet, so we passed through Waukon on the newly paved streets and took HWY 76 north to Bear Creek Drive and turned west. BCD took us over to Locust Road where we turned north again to HWY 44. We followed 44 through Spring Grove where we picked up CR 27, a newly paved county road that took us back to 76 at Eitzen. We passed through Eitzen and onto Pool Hill Road and cruised down the hill into New Albin and HWY 26. A short jog on 26 and we were on Iowa River Drive heading west and then onto Lycurgus Road to HWY 9. Almost all of the roads we took had signs of water on them, but nothing fell from the sky on us. In fact, as we traveled along Lycurgus Road and HWY 9, we were treated to a spectacular sun set. When we arrived in Waukon, the streets were wet, and Lisa, the waitress in Gus & Tony's, told us we just missed a pretty good shower.
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| NOTICE THE WET STREET AND THE SKY TO THE WEST |
This Friday and Saturday is the Iowa Gold Wing Road Riders Association rally to be held in Oelwein this year. Depending on the weather, I plan to go over and participate in a couple of the planned rides. The ride on Friday passes through Waukon for lunch at Waukon Power Sports (special thanks to them). I may be able to post some photos of the rally here on the WNR web page.
For those of you who said it was getting dry and we could use some rain, be careful what you wish for!!
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