Five other Wednesday Night Riders accompanied Bob on his planned trip to the Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville on Sunday. Mike & Joan and Lois arrived on bikes, and Dave, Richard, and Bob filled in with three wheelers.
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| MOST OF THE GANG IS HERE |
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| MIKE HEADS FOR HIS RIDE |
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| LET'S GO SEE SOME TOYS! |
With a beautiful afternoon in store, Bob decided to take his "shortcut" to Dyersville. So we started out on HWY 76 south, took the Volney Road to Monona, and stayed for a short jog on HWY 18 to Golden Avenue. We stayed on Golden Avenue/ Fawn Hollow Road (CR X28) through Farmersburg and into St. Olaf. We then took CR B65 over to Gunder Road and followed Gunder Road into Elkader.
Just outside of Elkader we picked up HWY 13 and up the hill we went to catch CR X3C, appropriately named Grandview Road. And the scenery was cerainly grand! Grandview took us on a scenic journey down to Elkport where the name changes to Colesburg Road, so we stayed on it right into Colesburg. Once in Colesburg, we stopped at the newly refurnished Hill Country Convenience Store for a break.
After our break, we departed Colesburg and after a short jaunt on HWY 3, we turned onto CR X47 and headed for Petersburg. We stopped for a photo of the St. Peter & Paul Catholic Church there in Petersburg. In Bob's humble opinion, this is the most beautiful church in this part of Iowa. See what he means!
After the church photo shoot we continued on CR X47 until it ended at 210th St, which is actually historic old HWY 20. We took this historic route passing under the viadoc at "dead man corners" and on into Dyersville. We could have taken "new" HWY 20 around Dyersville, but Bob opted to go right through town on the main streets to pay homage to the veterans that had their photo images displayed on banners all along the way. Dyersville did a great job honoring their veterans this way!
We continued our way through Dyersville and arrived at the National Farm Toy Museum.
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| WE FIND PLENTY OF PARKING |
If you've never been here, put it on your "bucket list". It's a great facility, and they've done a wonderful job with the displays. Here's a few photos of just a few of the displays.
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| MORE THAN JUST FARM TOYS |
What's a motorcycle trip on a weekend without food and ice cream?! So we accomplished both by stopping at Happy Joe's after our toy visit.
Wanting to get back home before dark, we took our "normal" run back taking HWY 52 through New Vienna (where there's another beautiful Catholic church), Luxemberg, Millville, Guttenberg, and Garnavillo until we reached HWY 18 again. With all the field work going on, the combines were really kicking up a lot of dust!
We turned west on 18 and passed by Froelich and Monona and made our way into Luana and onto Diplomat/Forest Mills Road (CR X16). Continuing on Forest Mills Road, we breezed by the Gelo ranch and back to HWY 76 and on into Waukon. Bob had right at 150 miles on his trike when he parked her. He was glad to have some company along on this ride, and hopefully he will be able to make a leaf viewing ride one of these next weekends, since we noticed that the leafs are starting to turn.
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Such a great ride, Bob. It was a good reason to get out riding on an incredible Fall day! I wish I had forwarded the photo I took of some of the handmade wooden items. Intricately amazing!
Jill and I were thinking of the trip. Back in I believe the early 200s Dad and I would go down to the National Farm toy show in Dyersville the first weekend of November every year. Whole town and school is set up with vendors. So We decided on a route that My dad would take me like for the last ride of the year for a couple years. We go to Ossian then take the ossian west union blacktop until we get to the valley and turn left on the scenic river road that takes you into Clearmont. Then south to Elgin. Then we would go to wadena then Volga. Well just outside of Elgin road closed. But with a Motorcycle we went around the barricade! came across one more and though we were in the clear. But at hwy 56 could not go any farther south so we went east into Elkader. then instead of going north on 13 like we would if we went from Volga we went south until Grandview road on top of the hill. we went to elkpor and turned left into Garber then took Garber road to Guttenberg. There we at at Joes pizza and Icecream! Where Dad And I ate several times. Then we headed north on the back road scenic route to Pikes peak- McGregor to Marquette then past Effigy mounds to Waukon. Then from waukon took old stafge road home. we put on a bit over 140 miles. Was nice to be able to take Jill on a route that Dad and I took while she was sitting at home back then. Sounds like the riding season is coming to a close. Will probably wash up the wing good next weekend and get it stored away for the winter. Was a beautiful day for a ride for sure!
Lee, I love that you have those great memories with your Dad and that you can share them with Jill. He sure loved riding and hardley missed a Wednesday.
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