IT'S OFFICIAL

Wednesday night riding has finally started, although the second ride may be a ways off.  Last night 3 Gelos (You can never have too many Gelos.) and Bob R departed Casey's for the inaugural Wednesday night ride for 2020.  Jim & Cathy were on their Wing, Larry rode his Yamaha, and Bob was on the GW trike.

Larry dusted off the Yamaha

JIM & CATHY ROLL IN

I stated in the last post that if the temp was above 50 and there was no rain, I was going to ride.  So..

and suddenly at 5:30 after a drizzly, cold day, the sun came out!  The weather witch couldn't leave well enough alone and had to throw a cool northwest wind at us, but it was tolerable.  Now she's making next week turn back to winter with highs in the low 40's. 
We followed the route I laid out in the previous post and started out down the Elon Road heading east.  In a field to the north we spotted a Trump backer with a sign.  Continuing on we saw no deer, but one lonely raccoon and a turkey.  In some places the roads were wet yet and there was some sand at intersections.  When we got to McGregor, we thought all of the sand from the highways washed down the hill and onto their main street. After carefully negotiating through there we headed on HWY 18 for Postville.  On the way Jim & Cathy turned into Luana and took Forest Mills Road back home.  Larry and I continued on into Postville and eventually into Waukon at 7:25.  I had to finish the ride by riding past what was left of Gus & Tony's--a sad sight.  There was an additional 85 miles racked up on the trike when I pulled her into the shed.  It was good to "break the ice" for our first Wednesday night ride, but I hope the next ones are alot warmer!

AVOIDING BOREDOM WITH COVID 19.

Obviously I don't like being "cooped" up any more than anyone else who likes to ride, but I have been able to stave off some of the boredom by breaking out some of the old dvd's of past guys' and couples trips.  I found them entertaining again, and it's amazing how none of us have aged since we started those trips (lol).  If you still have some of those dvd's, stoke them up.  I'm sure you'll enjoy.
I also have a number of motorcycle and travel books that I will gladly loan out:

"Ride Like a Pro"--dvd
"Proficient Motorcycling"--The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well--book
"More Proficient Motorcycling"--Mastering the Ride--book
"The Ride Guide"--Americas best motorcycle tours--book
"Great American Motorcycle Tours"--book
"The Longest Ride"--a 10 year 500,000 mile motorcycle journey--book
"Alone in the Wind"--a journal of discovery in the summer of '88--book
"Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy"--a woman's journey of 38,000 miles--book
"The Higdon Chronicles"--iron butts, airheads, and my life behind bars--book
"Greetings from the Lincoln Highway"--a road trip celebration of America's first coast-to-coast highway--book
"Waypoints Volume 1"--Zen Motorcyclist

If interested, just give me a call (563-568-7277) and I'm sure we can arrange some type of a drop-off.

Some more signs from Dennis & Marlene...

STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY!!