En route to Hiawasse for the Georgia Mountain Rally --
http://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=75875.0 -- with an interim stop tonight at Willville.
So, Nick decided he would escape the East Coast Metro-blob before dawn this morning, truck his Norge to our place in Cross Junction, leave the truck, and ride to the event.
He arrived here at about 8:30 a.m., just as a local nursery was delivering some fruit trees and a few hardwoods (the latter to mask our VDOT lot neighbor).
Anyway, after a quick obligatory tour of the Moto Grappa, we had some.
Grappa. ;)
Then, sweet Kathi, knowing I was aching to ride and escape the tree planting, told me to go with Nick awhile. I did, but, after about 50 miles south (on grand back roads) and seeing the ever-darkening clouds, I decided that dry discretion was the better part of drenched valor. I left Nick to his likely wet fate and headed home.
Nick's goal was to meet Manfredo at Willville tonight. He'll make it, but may be a drenched guy when he gets there.
Here are a few pix if you want to see some evidence of some of the above. The captions are not visible in the "slideshow," so -- if you care about those -- just scroll down the display as it appears.
http://bill-and-kathi.smugmug.com/NJ-Nick-Does-Drive-by-at-Cross/n-PCsgwk/Bill