I should be there Sunday afternoon as well.

springman wrote on 09/17/21 at 15:13:58:


Are you sure you don't want to come?  (What happened with Jury Duty?)

You can throw those wayward motorcycles on a trailer and you will have 3 knowledgeable guys to help you fix them!

I’m here at the ark house

We're here .    Versey took the first turn buying dinner tonight hamburgers tonight , "says he's having steak tomorrow when its my turn",   I'm looking for a goat to bring to the cook for tomorrow night !  
So we may need a ride in the country tomorrow.  

So we followed the GPS on the way here from middle Tn.  It seemed odd to go into Alabama from Tn. to go northwest... but who knows, maybe there was a traffic jam going across the bridge between Memphis and Arkansas ?    Well, when we got to Louisiana I knew something was WAY Wrong !   After checking ... Interstate was turned off as a choice ...
So we enjoy our ride down the Natchez Trace on the way to Arkansas from Lynchburg anyway.  
Looks like Great Biking weather tomorrow !

Glad to hear you all made it there safe and sound. Even if some took the long way to get there.

Yep, I sure wish I could be there but just too much going on here. Had a government inspection of the lab today which went just fine. But also been the driver for my wife as she is hobbling around due to bad knees. She had the worst one operated about 6 weeks ago and the next one will be next Tuesday. We did not realize how bad the unoperated knee was until it was forced to work extra while rehabing the operated knee. Well, hopefully she will be fine in the next few weeks.

Too bad, I would love to have all that mechanic brain power helping me with the S40.

You guys have a great time and hopefully I can join you guys in a ride next year. I am thinking I will not have the opportunity for a ride this year. But who knows?!?!

LANCER wrote on 09/23/21 at 07:14:16:

It rained tuesday morn, but not much.
much cooler.

We are having so much fun riding.......it is hard to find time to log on and file a report!

The roads here are in really good shape, traffic is incredibly light as long as you ride the secondary roads and stay off the 4 lanes.....and avoid riding through Harrison which is always busy and takes a long time to navigate through.

Yesterday while coming back from Push Mountain I was leading and I started to notice a "fowl" smell.......the smell of aged chicken poo.  There was just a hint of the smell at first - but it seemed odd that the smell wasn't going away and seemed to be getting stronger.  As we continued riding and the smell was getting stronger I caught a glimpse of a truck with a large flat sided dump bed ahead of us.....and there was a faint cloud of brown dust blowing out of the bed!  At that point I realized the truck was hauling chicken poo..........and the occasional white feather on the road was a confirmation on what the cargo was. I stayed well back until we got a chance to pass and the wind seemed to be favorable to blowing the dust cloud away from the passing lane - then our group exceeded the speed limit for the first time this week!  I kept everybody out until the sun was setting - and a couple of deer crossing the road reminded us it was time to be back home and not riding after dark.

The weather this year caught us off guard a little bit, as the temperature has been far cooler than previous years.  Overnight temperatures have dropped just below 50 - however it doesn't take long to get up over 60 when the sun comes up.  Daytime temperatures have been in the middle 60's to low 70's - when the sun is setting it cools off quickly.

Today is Versy's last riding day - the rest of us will be riding again on Saturday and leaving on Sunday.