Our destination for today was Truman Lake South of Clinton, Missouri... The Bucksaw Resort and Marina.. They have a restaurant on the floating dock along the shore...
We came in three or more waves of folks, and it was quite cool for the morning ride... I saw 48 on the bike dashboard as I was riding to the meeting place.. We stopped a couple of times on the way down but still arrived about 10:30... There was a big crowd of breakfast eaters that were just finishing up...
The lunch crew spread outside as the morning warmed up... But it never got above 68 all day... They served Buffalo burgers as one of the main entrees, and they were fairly popular..
We left about 12:30 and took a tour up thru the center of Missouri finally arriving at Knob Noster, where the Whiteman Airforce Base is located.... As we were a couple of miles South of the airfield, a big flying wing overtook us over our right shoulder... At first it looked like a gigantic bird, but it was trailing dirty jet exhaust... A B2 Bomber.... They routinely fly missions on the other side of the world out of this remote base...
Out along the divided highway North of the base is a Mc Donalds... This is where the afternoon coffee and ice cream stop was declared... The group decided that they were going on North before heading back to KC since it was only overcast and not raining... I needed to be back for Biscuit as it was already 3:30...
So I left them and headed right back into the city on highway 50.. It still took me about an hour to get home, and I have no idea when the rest of the group got back... By 8 PM it was raining and continued well into the next day...
Google said it was 212 miles but I had 250 on the bike clock... We left at 9 AM and returned at 4:30 Which was longer than Googles 4 hour travel time, but most of the rest of the time was in the restaurants....
Retired Rod
Biker gangs definitely don't represent the majority of bikers on the road. I bet Biscuit was overjoyed to see you come home. I know if we're gone for a couple of hours the girls go crazy when we come home.
ReplyDeleteI would have found that comment disturbing too! If we are gone for 15 minutes Emmi goes nuts when we come home! :))
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