Mohican State Park

 I rode 212 miles up to Mohican State Park, walked around there and drove thru the park roads ended up on the other side of the park.  I figured my way back and then went to Malabar Farm.  Went into the visitors center and visited with an older lady.  She was so impressed that I had ridden all the way from Marysville in one day.  She was sweet.

 After I left the Farm I wanted to head out to Butler to get a bite to eat but there was Rt. 603 which I had visited for the first time on my Rebel. Was one of my first longer rides by myself.  Love this road really big hills.  So I took it got a couple pictures then my camera died.  Got gas in Lucas and then took 39 to 603 again and rode it back to 95, was beautiful. I then headed into Butler, stopped at the Whilffletree for lunch.  Nice little small town restaurant.

 From Butler I headed to Bellville, we use to go to church in Butler and this was the way we went home.  was fun to see these roads again.  From Bellville I took Bellville - Johnsville Rd.   fun little road took me to Johhnsville.  I went past our old (new) Highschool then past our old home.  The stone quary m brothers use to swim in is now a pond in front of a house.  It looked so small compared what I use to remember.   Then past our poor poor house that use to be so pretty.  Needs a paint job so badly.  Wish we could get that house and fix up.  Two men were working around the yard.                 I was going to go to Iberia and take 309 to Marion and then 739 to Raymond and then home.  But the clouds started to look dark and so I decided to just head home.  Took the road from our house to Mt Gilead and then 42 toward home but then took Cty rd. 24  since it was so windy there was much more protection from the wind this way.  Great Ride!

March 17 ride to Washington Courthouse

54">Beautiful ride to WC. to watch my nephew play his tuba in a band concert. The sky and the clouds were amazing on the way down and back. I did get sprinkled on and thought oh no not a year like last year. I got soaked so many times last year I lost count. I need to buy a new rain suite.
Any way the concert was good, I enjoy watching them all play reminds me of years passed. I met a friend of my sister, and they pulled up to me getting ready to ride in the parking lot. She said " You just went up a bunch on notches on the cool factor in my book". That was a nice complement.
I got the camera out for the ride home and had a fun time taking shots mainly of the clouds. They got darker and darker as I came home, the roads were wet but not one drop on my coming home. Yeah
This is the first I have used the iPad to do this blog and for some reason it will not let me up load my pictures. I will do that later on my real computer.

January 31, they are calling it Junuary.

The weather is great, got up to 59 at least. I have been sick with a cold in my chest, but could not resist this weather. So I started Shad up, he didn't want to start at first but then he did. The front tire was low so instead of going out to the shop and using the big compressor, I remember we had bought a small one that you plug into a cigarette lighter. It worked good, I need to use that more often. Then I filled up with gas, geared up and off I went, it felt so good just the freedom of the ride. Some times the fear would try to creep in, so you just slow down and get use to the ride. Loved it. Had to cough a few times in my helmet, did not like that. Rode for about an hour just around here and started to get cold so I headed home. Was great, I look so forward to riding season.

He asked How and Why did I get into Motorbikes?

Thanks Gary for the invitation of your question.

Years ago as a small child my brothers all had bikes. They would take me on rides and I loved it, but thought that only boys rode these things.
Well in 2007 (many many years later) I came home from visiting my children and grandchildren, out in CO and my husband had bought a Shadow 1100. I enjoyed riding on the back for the summer and then asked if he thought I could handle one for myself. He said sure, so Sept. of that year I found one I liked also a Shadow, a 750 Aero, on ebay. I won the bid and brought it home that weekend. It only had 3800 miles on it. So excited, once we got it home I jumped on without any training and rode up and down my road, but then on our first real ride, all geared up, I dropped it on the first big curve. Och, what a shocker, I decided to back off and I take the class. Got that done in Oct. but still scared when I would get on the 750. I would take to parking lots and ride and ride, but I could not conquer that fear. I found a 250 Rebel, and rode that the next year when ever I went out by myself and the 750 when riding with my husband. By 09 I only rode the Aero. I now have 30,000 miles on it and love the freedom of riding. I would love to hit every state here in the US some day. I am a 51 year old grandma of 9 beautiful grandbabies and 2 more on the way, that loves to get out and explore the roads less traveled.

More back roads

Nice trip again with many back roads to explore.

Back Tracking

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So a few post back I talked about riding past some woods that were a bit strange, but I did not get any pictures of them.   Well I went back and found them.  The first ones of the platforms in the wood with chairs and benches on them were on Wood Rd. just off of 47 near Richwood.  I often have to go up there to pick up parts for Paul, so I checked it out this last time I went up, was in my cage.

These remind me of a game I once played called myst.  There were paths in the woods with little platforms  for resting.

These other woods are on Church Rd. off of 245 and after showing Paul the pictures he said it must be a Maple syrup collecting woods.  This building was near the woods and it was a large woods with these lines all over it.  

Here is another holding bin, I would like to know more about how then go about collecting it all.  None of the lines seemed to be in the trees, just tied around them.

Just thought it to be very interesting, it took me a while to find these woods.  I had ridden past them once before but was not sure where I had seen them.  Did google earth to see all the woods in the area I had ridden and then found the biggest woods and headed there on my bike for this picture taking ride.

Fall Ride

This ride was coming home from our church women's retreat.  Was up near  Bellefountaine  very enjoyable ride home, after a great time with some wonderful women.

At the retreat we were able to ride horses so about 1 hour before this shot I had been on a horse  doing a 1 hr trail ride.  Was fun coming upon these horse getting refreshed in the water.