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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chuck in Indiana on October 23, 2015, 09:07:04 PM
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It's another pretty darn nice day in the midwest..thanks, El Nino.. cool enough to comfortably wear your gear, high cirrus clouds to keep the sun off.. :smiley: no gay pirates clogging up the roadways.. :evil:
Sorry.
At any rate, I thought I'd get the Aero Lario out and go for a putt. What's the plan? Uh, nothin. Just come to the first road that follows a creek..crik in hoosier speak.. then find another.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/elwood59/1-007_zpswlqc9vyo.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/elwood59/media/1-007_zpswlqc9vyo.jpg.html)
Did that for an hour or so, then realized I was pretty near the place I spent the first 5 years of my life. I'll go there. Haven't been by there for years and years. That's a place to go. Believe it or not, I got my first horse when I was three. (!) I lived on the back of Connie, and might be miles away from home. It wasn't any big deal. <shrug>
It was a 60 acre farm with a cute bungalow house, nice sized barn and chicken house. Pulled up and..
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/elwood59/1-009_zpsfa53iyfg.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/elwood59/media/1-009_zpsfa53iyfg.jpg.html)
No chicken house, barn's gone.. double wide to the east, and abandoned.
<sigh> You can't go home again. :smiley: Needless to say, the airplane that had made a forced landing and just left to rot in our pasture field wasn't there, either. :azn: That event no doubt was a life changing thing for me..
At any rate, I remembered going east to this crossroads on my horse..
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Maybe he/she should rethink their business plan.. :smiley: but no farther east. Don't remember mother or dad going any farther, either. The sale barn and feed store was the other way.
So..
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That's why.
Try another direction..
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/elwood59/1-013_zpsxrhwnclc.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/elwood59/media/1-013_zpsxrhwnclc.jpg.html)
What's this?? In central Indiana?? Shirley :smiley:they're joshing..
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They were, of course. :smiley:
At any rate, after quite a while of this.. just listening to the Aero engine run and it's staccato idle :thumb: I saw a water tower in the distance. Ah hah! civilization. Time for a late lunch..
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/elwood59/1-016_zpsfp3foirf.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/elwood59/media/1-016_zpsfp3foirf.jpg.html)
Several more miles of following cricks, etc back home. A lovely fall day made all the sweeter knowing that rides like this will be scarce for a while.
Edit: Finally talked Photobucket into displaying the pix correctly.. :smiley:
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Shame about the old home place Chuckie , but glad you got out :bike-037
Dusty
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Nice report -- times do change. Fall is a good time to revisit old haunts.
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Neat pix and story.
Thanks.
Bill
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Nice, especially with the background.
There's a good twisty bit in three too, and I thought the roads in Indiana were all straight!
John
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Thanks for the pictorial report. Your ride reminds me of what I do some days. Take off, find a ghost town, old cemetery, historical marker, another dirt road, etc.
My riding season will be in full swing once the flooding stops. We went from extreme dryness to flooding <shrug>
Tex
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Good report Chuck. I also like that you show people that riding is not all that bad in Indiana.
I'd ride to where I grew up more often...but then I worry about getting shot! Was good in the 50s...not so much now.
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Good report Chuck. I also like that you show people that riding is not all that bad in Indiana.
I'd ride to where I grew up more often...but then I worry about getting shot! Was good in the 50s...not so much now.
Actually, southern Indiana is nice, but it's 2 hours away, and with that Indianapolis thing in the way. I thought about heading south, but just didn't want to do the 4 hour commute. :smiley:
It was just a pleasant ride with no particular place to go.. :wink:
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Nice little photo journal Chuck!
Those cylinder heads... :thumb:
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:thumb: good stuff.
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Nice RR ! Put away my steed for the LONG Wisconsin winter a couple of days ago. I miss seeing her sexy curves already.
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Well, SOMEBODY has to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpitvLeNjuE
Howard
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Thankya, Howard.. Thankya.. :smiley:
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Well, SOMEBODY has to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpitvLeNjuE
Howard
Well, glad you did it! You found a much better video of Chuck than I did. And OP Chuck..... nice pics of what must have been a super day of riding. Thanks for taking time to stop for some photo ops.
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Thanks for sharing that lovely ride. Beautiful job on that lario too! :drool: Ever thought about one of those trailer hitch propellers for the tail? :grin:
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nice
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Ah yes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIY4OEAd6Yk