I thought Dearborn was in Michigan...........?

I did manage to get out of bed before the sun was out this morning and was ready to ride by about 8 AM...  But, it was still in the 40's and I sort of held back.....

Dressing slowly in the riding gear, and adding an additional layer to my upper torso...   I had the liners in the coat and pants and heavy socks on...  But once the temp reached 50, I was off....

This was a highway ride to Dearborn, Missouri..  It is up North of KC on I 29, just outside of Saint Joseph...  Google Maps called it 54 miles, and that seemed to be about correct...

I still messed around getting a full tank of gas and letting the sun warm the air..  But eventually I hit the road and speeds of about 70...  It was cool....  I made it up there by about 10:15 and some of the riders were already standing around in the street, but I was with the first group that went in to the restaurant.  The Cooks Corner..  The place was fairly nice inside and we were treated like royalty...  There are lots of photos on the Romeo Web Site including one of me looking rather fat.......  Now if that don't make you go look, nothing will....




Your probably tired of all these pictures of folks eating in Restaurants, so I will only put one on here and let you go look at all the others, if you want...

We stood around outside for a while looking at the bikes and telling more stories, until all at once everyone headed out.  I ended up following a group of fellows on BMW bikes.  They were travelling rather quickly back South..

My bike speedometer registers about 10% fast and I was showing 85...  That would be somewhere around 78.. But as I looked in my mirror, a fellow on a Honda Gold Wing came up from behind....

There were two of them on this bike, and the rider was a gal...  They beeped at us as they passed, but they were keeping at least 15 mph more than we were..  Zoom, right on by.....  I do think they were going 90 or so.....  I expected to see them pulled over with a big ole Kansas Patrolman behind them.... But it never happened, at least on the road that we were on...

It didn't even take an hour to get home following these fellows.....

Later in the day, I ended up over at Wal Mart waiting for a tire to be installed on the back of the pickup truck.....  Remember we had one replaced out in New Mexico on our trip back, and now it has a mate on the other side of the back end.

As we go into the possibly slick weather, I felt it was important to have matching new tires on the back end, or perhaps the older one with minimal tread would spin while the new one grabbed into the road..  The fronts were better, so I left them on...  Maybe next year....!

And in answer to Rick's question about me begrudging a little turkey and mashed potatoes, it was more like I was lusting for some.......  It happens every year, my Canadian friends send me all these pictures of 18 pound turkeys and things, and I have to wait until late November....  And by then the Canucks are down here having a second Thanks Giving.....  That must be awful thankful!!  From what I can tell.......

I had better shut it up before I get myself into even more trouble.....

Retired Rod