First Ride 2019

junglejim

junglejim

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Finally, got out for the first ride of the year. It is about 60 degrees today but it will be short-lived.
The roads are full of salt/sand on all the curves, hills, and intersections
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It has been busy cooing maple sap. Sap flow is exceeding my cooking capacity. Sap run is about done anyway so life can return to normal (whatever that is). We will finish with somewhere just short of 20 gallons of syrup. Now excuse me while I go have some ice cream with maple syrup on it.

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junglejim said:
Now excuse me while I go have some ice cream with maple syrup on it.
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What about the pancakes?

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Darn you guys, I might have to have a sweet breakfast for dinner tonight! My neighbor just finished making fresh syrup, it's done for the year down here.
Glad you made it out for a ride today!
 
WVRider said:
Glad you got that first ride of the year out of the way.. Hope weather stays in your favor.
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Thanks Duane.
Is there any hint of an agenda for your event down there. I'm just guessing that Thursday is an arrival day with riding on Friday and Saturday, and heading out on Sunday. Is that somewhat correct? Oh, did I leave out the eating contests?

I know you folks are great, but I'm still weighing 4 days of travel, and $3.00 gas for 2 days of riding and fellowship.
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WVRider said:
Glad you got that first ride of the year out of the way.. Hope weather stays in your favor.
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Thanks Duane.
Is there any hint of an agenda for your event down there. I'm just guessing that Thursday is an arrival day with riding on Friday and Saturday, and heading out on Sunday. Is that somewhat correct? Oh, did I leave out the eating contests?

I know you folks are great, but I'm still weighing 4 days of travel, and $3.00 gas for 2 days of riding and fellowship.
 
To put the above in context let me add something.

I have a long history of riding too hard on trips and missing things along the way. When Phil and I rode to Alaska we managed to miss about 3/4 of the things we should have seen. (I'm sure Phil would agree). But the way we rode enabled us to actually make the trip. There is a tedious balance between riding, touring, and traveling. There are always things to enjoy along the way - possibly in the middle of an Illinois cornfield.

I met a rider in a campground in CA riding a BMW R1200GS. He had every camping convenience know to man. He rode every day all summer and spent the entire summer touring about 4 states, and did this for several years. That might be the other extreme. Phill wasn't with me at that time or those two might still be there talking about their motorcycling adventures.
 
Mellow said:
That definitely hits home for me... I get so caught up in going from point A to point B... I don't check out anything in between.
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I don't think that's a very well-kept secret Joe. I'll bet the FBI and the CIA both know about it already. Oh - and the rest of us do too.

The time you "weren't going to MNSTOC" and you got there before me - - FROM WYOMING - comes to mind. I think your comment was "oh, I changed my mind".
 
junglejim said:
I don't think that's a very well-kept secret Joe. I'll bet the FBI and the CIA both know about it already. Oh - and the rest of us do too.

The time you "weren't going to MNSTOC" and you got there before me - - FROM WYOMING - comes to mind. I think your comment was "oh, I changed my mind".
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That was different :geek:
 
I definitely agree that I tend to miss out on lots of things along the way on my trips. Just this evening I was looking back at my pictures from the "Epic Ride," and was surprised by things I didn't get pictures of, even though I remember a lot of them. But if I'd done the Epic Ride and gotten as many pictures per mile as Chuck Henderson does on one of his jaunts, I'd be about half way to Nova Scotia by now.
 
Phil Tarman said:
I definitely agree that I tend to miss out on lots of things along the way on my trips. Just this evening I was looking back at my pictures from the "Epic Ride," and was surprised by things I didn't get pictures of, even though I remember a lot of them.
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When you get old enough you remember things you didn't even see,
 
Yup, I'm the same way..... but..... I like long rides because, well, I like to ride. So even though I covered a lot of miles and didn't stop for every tourist location, I still enjoyed myself greatly cause I rode.

Make sense?

Mike
 
mikesim said:
Yup, I'm the same way..... but..... I like long rides because, well, I like to ride. So even though I covered a lot of miles and didn't stop for every tourist location, I still enjoyed myself greatly cause I rode.

Make sense?

Mike
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Make sense??? No, but we do it anyway. Let's not get in a discussion trying to make sense out of a hobby. We'd all lose.

I spend lots of time and money making holes in perfectly good targets. Worse yet, I go to tournaments and matches and spend even more time and money to do that with other people and often become frustrated because I wanted a higher score. Make sense???

Sure!!!! It makes at least as little sense as long hard rides on a motorcycle so I can spend more money on tires and gas while wearing myself out and getting a stiff neck.

I draw the line at jumping our of airplanes.
 

Hey there junglejim,
No real agenda. If anyone wants to roll in early Thursday and go for a ride then, I'm up for it. I can be to the park in about 45 minutes. Some of us often get there early on Thursday and take a short ride before the evening meal. The lodge has a great restaurant so we usually gather there in the evening for dinner and then again in the mornings to discuss our ride for the day. We usually don't leave for ride till 9:30 or 10:00 (determined at breakfast). The main rides are Friday and Saturday and Tosh and I already have those set aside. All we will do is choose which one we ride on which day. Last year on Friday and or Saturday night we had a group campfire just below the lodge. Park furnished the wood and bench all the way around a nice fire pit. If anyone wants to do a ride on their way out of town I know many great routes to get anywhere as this is my stomping grounds. I had a ride scheduled for Sunday morning last year that several could have done but weather chased some off. A couple rode part way with me and then bailed to head north when we hit a breakoff point. The weather never did get bad and I did the ride before heading home. Lots of options. I'll throw that out on the Gathering page.
 
When I made my cross country trip I started out by making 400 mile circles on a map and looking for interesting things in the circles. Some of my days ended up being only a couple of hundred miles and some were as much as 550 but by setting small goals I was able to see a lot of things without that feeling that I wasn't getting there (wherever there was).
 
junglejim said:
Finally, got out for the first ride of the year. It is about 60 degrees today but it will be short-lived.
The roads are full of salt/sand on all the curves, hills, and intersections
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It has been busy cooing maple sap. Sap flow is exceeding my cooking capacity. Sap run is about done anyway so life can return to normal (whatever that is). We will finish with somewhere just short of 20 gallons of syrup. Now excuse me while I go have some ice cream with maple syrup on it.

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Hey Jim,

Its finally been warm enough up here in Chisholm to think about riding as well...I got the Pooch started and went around the block today. Its currently sunny and 61 right now, but lots of sand,gravel, salt, and a winter's worth of other debris , especially on the corners.

Jon (Fossil)
 
I did my first ride today. Only 60 miles, but that's a start. I did a loop around Greeley and I can tell I haven't been on the bike in several months.
 
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