.....AND APPLE BLOSSOM WHITE

 While the temp was just barely sixty degrees, we still had 11 Wednesday night riders show up at Casey's last night for a ride to view the apple blossoms above Gays Mills.  

David and Bob Z showed up in a new Ram pickup.  Bugsy and Helen were traveling in the "smooth as silk" BugsMobile, and Dale and Greg were aboard a support convertible.  Irv came with his Harley trike, while Chuckles, Lois, Howard, and Bob R chose bikes.

HOWARD INSPECTS THE BUGSMOBILE

SUPPORT CONVERTIBLE READY TO GO

IRV AND BOB Z

BUGSY WELCOMES CHUCKLES & LOIS

DAVID SAYS, "MY PICKUP LOOKS A LOT MORE COMFORTABLE!"

Departing at 5:30, we headed north on HWY 9 through Lansing, crossed the Blackhawk Bridge into Wisconsin, and headed south on HWY 35.  After passing through Ferryville, we took CR C east, and wound our way over to CR B.  After a windy ride with a few rain sprinkles, we arrived at HWY 31 just outside of Gays Mills.  We turned east again onto Del La Matter road and made our way toward the orchards.

DLM road took us up the mountain and past a few trees to HWY 171 and down the hill through the orchards.

Jim was right, the trees were in full bloom.  Because of the limited video space allowed on the blog site, I can only show a few excerpts from the video I took.  If this type of scenery is to your liking, I would advise getting up to Gays Mills asap, because the "Weather Witch" will be blowing the blossoms off very soon.

We continued our journey down HWY 171 passing through Gays Mulls and Mt. Sterling and back down to HWY 35 to Ferryville.  There we stopped for a short break at the Arco gas station.  

No one bought ice cream here tonight!  After our break we crossed the bridge again and took HWY 9 back to Waukon and cruised on into the City Club for eats.

Bugsy would join us later, and the conversation turned to what would be needed to equip a wrecker after you pulled it out of the woods.  

I had 98 miles on the clock after I pulled the Wing into the shed at home.  Hopefully one of these days we are going to get some warm weather and wind that blows less than 30 mph.