It was another good turn out for breakfast this morning, not as good as last week, but still a good crowd, including a new prospective member, D.J. Campbell. Notable absentees were J.T., who was visiting in North Carolina, and Boyd, who was flying to Tennessee to pick up a Suzuki V-Strom (what? the VMax wasn't quick enough in the corners?). Bill and Mercy were present but not in riding attire due to other pressing duties.
Leaving the parking area, we headed southeast to avoid the storms coming on shore around Bayport. We were joined by the new prospective on his sidecar equipped Harley. The first difficulty of the day came as we found Coronet to the closed at the railroad tracks. Making a u-turn, we returned to Jim Tucker and took that to Jap Tucker. All went well until we reached Cowart and found that someone had placed speed bumps every quarter mile or so. What a pain. Having negotiated all those #@%^& speed bumps, we turned south on Smith Ryals, heading for Old Hopewell. Reaching SR-60, we found that the new median blocked our way and we could no longer go straight across 60. After negotiating a short detour, we were able to return to Smith Ryals. Thankfully, that was our last unplanned detour of the day.
After covering a few more back roads and losing Robert who was not feeling up to par, we arrived at Agricola Mine Rd. We stopped there for some instruction for those unfamiliar with this piece of roadway. After all completed the run safely, we headed for gas and a quick break in Ft. Meade.
As Eddie, Barry and D.J. headed towards home, the remaining three riders continued on towards, Lake Buffum, Babson Park, Frostproof and Avon Park where it was time for lunch at the Wild Turkey Tavern.
The return trip went well until we approached Homeland on 640 where we ran into a light rain. Seeing that the heaviest rain was to our south, we chose to continue west on 640 and quickly ran out of the rain and into the warm sunshine which stayed with us the rest of the way home.
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See you next week. Ride with Pride.
Gunny
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