RAINBOWS & HEART NEWS

First of all, I want to thank everyone who offered up prayers and well-wishes for my heart valve replacement surgery on Wednesday.  Apparently things went well, but I still have to wear a heart monitor for 30 days. I do have a checkup next Thursday, so we will see how things are going then, and what they are going to let me do or not do.

I was glad to see that some of the Wednesday Night Riders still ventrured out with out me. Here's a report from Jim who led the trio on the trip.

With Bob in the hospital getting a valve job, three  WNRs didn't have the sense to stay home. The future radar showed light rain at 4:45 and clear at 5:00. What we actually got were tornado sirens, actual tornadoes east of town, and downpours those times. After sitting by the pumps to stay dry and with some blue sky showing to the west. Richard, Jim, and Chuckles took off from Caseys with Jim in the lead so he could watch the radar and hopefully keep us dry. We planned on Elkader to West Union, and back down the Turkey river to Clermont and home. The weather immediately changed our plans with rain to the south. We thought we could try doing the same ride in reverse. We headed west on 9 to Centennial Rd to Sand Rd into Ossion. We turned on W42 south only to discover it is closed except for local traffic. We then decided we would go to Festina only to see that would get us wet, so we headed to Calmar instead, and realized the Great River Road into Clermont wasn't meant to be this Wednesday night. New plan. We headed past Pivo to Spillville, Protovin, and Cresco on the Dvorak Mem Hwy. Coming into Cresco we started seeing partial rainbows. After a brief pit stop at Kwik Star we continued following rainbows across the Pole Line Hwy to 52. A left on 52 and a few miles to N Winn Rd kept the rainbows in view on to Big Canoe Rd and Bear Creek Rd to 76 and back to Waukon with a rainbow south of town bringing us in. We stopped at the Uptown Grill for some coffee and lunch. We managed to stay dry and other than a little windy it turned out to be a pretty ride. Hopefully next week we won't need the radar and Jim can just follow someone else. I had114 miles on when I rolled back past Caseys. Best wishes for Bob and a speedy recovery!

Here's some photos of their adventure.

The next event for the WNR's is giving the trike rides to the residents of Wellington Place at 10 AM on Tuesday.  If you look on their Facebook page, you will see that they are really excited for this event.  Right now, I plan to come over and observe, take photos and pass out the pins.  Chuckles is giving me a ride over, and Jim is taking my place with my trike giving the rides.