Today was the las riding day in the tree lined winding roads of the Eastern United States. We left Mountain View and headed North. Half of the day was on those technical roads but then divided highways on up to brother Steves in Kansas City. Everyone is having a nice time visiting and swapping Australian and American stories.
Tomorrow is a down day here where we will be doing laundry, cleaning radiators and putting a new set of tires on my bike.
Today we rode about 250 miles here in the Ozarks working our way to Jasper and back here to Mountain View. Good weather and roads. No pictures. 😢
Here is a link the track we have been on since leaving the TTD event on Sunday.
https://new.spotwalla.com/trip/21d7-106583c5-e759/view
Here’s a fun picture of Damian with his new best friend.
We woke up this morning to wet roads but dry skies at least until we got underway then light rain off and on for most of the morning. Last night Pat, from the K1600 forum and Huron South Dakota showed up to ride with us for a few days. We stopped for lunch at 10:30 and afterwards it was dry and the skies became partly cloudy for the rest of the day.
We rode another ferry across the Mississippi River
We are staying in Mountain View, Arkansas for 2 nights. Tomorrow we will ride around here in the Ozark hills.
Another forum member from Missouri rolled into the motel tonight and will also ride with us for 2 days
This is a Sunday and time to hit the road West. We got on the road a little before 7:00 with dry conditions. Stopped in Tellico Plains for gas and breakfast. As we looked the bikes over we noticed Damian’s front tire looked pretty worn so Andy and I started brainstorming on what to do about. The final plan was to detour and go to a Cycle Gear shop near Nashville. We arrived and I removed the wheel, in the parking lot, and Damian took it in and had a new tire mounted and balanced.
Back on the road to Paris Tennessee for the night. Andy routed us so that wee took a car ferry across a river. We met up with brother Kevin and friend Greg at a friends house near Paris for a short visit. A quick ride to Paris before the rain came and we checked into our motel rooms.
We had supper next door at a pizza and beer restaurant where we met Pat from Huron, South Dakota, who is a member on our K1600 forum. He will join us for a couple days of riding.
Andy has been hard at work loading our upcoming routes on everyones GPS.
We woke up this morning to a light off and on rain. Andy loaded the routes for our ride back West across America on my GPS. Finally it let up enough that most every one took off on their motorcycles to parts unknown. Steve and I along with 2 others road to a resort by a river for lunch. We got rained on for a few miles but finished getting to the resort and back here under dry skies. I forgot to turn on my tracking program today but it was a short loop on roads we did earlier in the week, o thing new.
Tonight there will be a 50/50 raffle and some other short programs typical of a gathering of this type. I'll have to count the bikes tomorrow morning to see how many showed up. It seems to be less than past years.
I gave the Australians Damian and Brendan shirts that Shannon made as souvenirs for their cross country trip.
Here are some pictures of the back lot of the lodge where there is tent camping, wagon camping and a bunkhouse with 4 beds where we are staying. A nice creek runs through the property and they have an outside gathering place with a fire pit. I'll post more pictures of the lodge later.
