Rides worth mentioning: September 2015

We are on our way to Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

This is a shot of the bikes already loaded, at breakfast at the Gold Country Inn in Deadwood, on our way out of town.

Today was a good day, with not much wind. We did have one minor detour that ended up on us having to go on about 7 or 8 miles of gravel road south of Chamberlain. Trouble wasn't a fan of that. AT ALL! We ended up at Days Inn in Yankton, SD.

409 miles today.

Day Two

We started the day in Yankton with our normal McDs breakfast. It was a cool 50 degrees to start the day, but it started warming up quickly. We had a high of about 83 degrees, and a south wind all day. We happened to be going south. All day. It was windy, but it was better than a side wind for sure.

We stopped at a small town in Kansas to visit Troubles niece. We had a nice visit after getting to the Sonic. I wanted to get something to eat earlier, but she said to just go to the town we were stopping at anyway. She thought it was only 20 miles, but it was over an hour. I was hungry!

Other than that, the day was uneventful. I like those days. We ended up at the Super 8 in Chanute Kansas, and we are going to the Kansas RV Center in the morning. I meant to get picture of a large steam locomotive they had in a city park, but I forgot.

441 miles today, and no pictures. It was Nebraska and Kansas after all!

Day Three - Monday

We started the day looking at 5th wheel campers at Kansas RV Center. We are just looking at ideas for retirement or at least full time living. We looked at several very nice, very expensive units, but we both liked the Alpha Gold. It was more reasonably priced, and very high quality.

After we left there, we just meandered along in the general direction of Springfield Missouri. We didn't know how bad the winds would be, and didn't want to commit to any one route. When we got north of Joplin, we decided things were going well enough to go to Lamberts for our annual stop. On our way there, we ended up on Mo highways 97 and 96, and they were fabulous roads. Smooth, and newly surfaced. After that, we headed south on 65 towards Berryville. I had forgotten how nice that ride is. They have great motorcycle roads in this area. It is part of the reason we keep coming here.

This guy wanted a ride I think. It was there when I took the cover off.

This is early in the rally, and this year seems to be a 4 wheel rally. We are all getting older, and medical issues forced many people to bring cars instead of bikes.

Here Moparman was showing Badger his sausages. Seriously.

Once we got here, it was great getting to see everyone. Waterman and I did a count, and there were 11 Hondas, 6 Vulcans, 1 Yamaha, and 1 BMW at the Vulcan rally. Reverse has been to ES on two wheels, three wheels, and now four wheels. They said next year she might try a unicycle!

We took a car last year, and we had just as much fun as we have any other year. Funny how that works. We also noticed that whenever we wanted to go somewhere, people were more than happy to ride with us.

253 fun and easy miles today.

Day Four

We started with breakfast at this place.

The sign was right. None of us died. Yet.

Here was a bunch of the breakfast group. Wompass and Monteign are in the light.

After breakfast, I walked across the street and bought a couple dodads for the BMW. Everyone has to tell a story when they find out you ride a BMW. I think that might be my least favorite thing about the bike so far. BUT, there have been some pretty neat stories.

Trouble was worried about where I got off to after breakfast, and they found me at this shop. Here is a gaggle of VROCers hustling across the busy road.

I couldn't resist. I wanted to get a bunch more of the Honda bunch, but before I got it done, someone went and pulled a Vulcan in near it. I don't know what they were thinking!

Here is a before picture of a bunch of the girls heading out for a small "bachelorette party". They headed downtown Eureka Springs for some hooting and hollering. Oh yeah, and some "**** whistle blowing".