Wet Tuesday

This is downtown Adrian, Missouri.....  I know, not a big place for sure...  Its South of Harrisonville, Mo on what is now called I 49.... which is US 71 to us old timers...  But the tan building is Wimfields the local restaurant and bar there in town....




Looking back the other way outside, the town isn't much larger but the row of bikes seems about the same... Ben was with me again today and our bikes are in the middle of the row, but seem to be lost in the crowd...



Once inside we were early enough to order breakfast, so in keeping with the theme of biscuits and gravy, I ordered two with a side of sausage... Seems like it was Ben sitting beside me that was telling the fibs as this picture was taken....




We were about 60 miles from our house in this town and about 10 miles across the border into Missouri... We stayed off of the interstates and for the most part took back roads... But that wasn't the story for today..

It was the fact that it was heavily overcast and was supposed to rain after three PM.... Well... Three PM came quite early and we had splatters at about 12:30.. By then we were back over in Kansas but had to go straight West thru La Cygne to avert the shower to our North... Which is the way we really needed to go...

We ended up going over to Ks 7 and then North which skirted the wetness for a while.... But at Paola, Kansas it became impossible to stay out of the rain....




Ks 7 is a divided interstate road and the traffic rolls at 70, which throws water from the cars and walls of water from the trucks.... Then it began to hail as we got off at Spring Hill.... We ducked into one of those gas stop convenience stores and sat next to the pumps under the canopy... Once it let up enough we came on home.  Total about 140 miles..

B is where Adrian is and LaCygne is at C.

It was about 2:30 when we were back, and Loyce had the grand kids while we were gone, so she took them back as they had afternoon activities for the rest of the day.... Never a slow moment....!

Again the pictures were provided by my ROMEO brothers at their web site.....

Retired Rod