Thursday, December 19, 2013

Carbondale, Kansas not Illinois......

Point B on this map is Carbondale, a community so small that its name only shows on a much larger detail map view...  The restaurant had only been open for four weeks....  The Pepper Patch....  A Mexican place without a Mexican in sight.....

But a Taco Bar with flour and hard shell tacos and all you can eat chips and salsa, is a good thing no matter what.....  They had a big pan of refried beans too, but I stayed away from those...


We Rode out from my home on the Southern most line which was about 68 miles...   The wind was from the Southwest at 15 with gusts to 25...  The temperature was about 50 on the way out.....

The gusts went right thru you even though I had three shirts and three pairs of pants on....  The liner was in the cycle jacket as well...  My friend Al's wife had made me a neck wrap out of fleece...  It was a life saver as it covers your chin down into the top of your jacket....  Its very cold under your helmet otherwise...

We left the restaurant a little after noon, and it was in the 60s by now, but with that wind it was still really cold...  Our coffee stop was at the Mc Donalds in the Southern end of Lawrence where I put the dot on the map...

It was almost 4 PM when I got back to let Biscuit out, and she looked at me like "Where have you been?"

Our weather is supposed to go into the tank from here on out, with much colder and rain turning to snow by the weekend..  So the motor bike is put up now....  But we had a couple of good days, even if I was wondering how nuts we were in the cold wind this morning.....

We are all just as nuts, as there were 40 or more cycles outside in the parking lot...

3 comments:

  1. ".....if I was wondering how nuts we were..." I was thinking the same thing, when we rode the motorcycle I was strictly a fair weather rider!

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  2. You guys sure are dedicated riders to be out riding in that cold stuff. Actually, I'm happy to see you'll be traveling around on 4 wheels for a while - much safer.

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  3. Have a holly jolly Christmas and then skedaddle back down here to the warm weather.

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