On Saturday, I rode with Rae, Doug, Neil, Steve and Tom to the VFW in Strafford for pancakes. It had been a while since I had been out there. We had to slow for a Canada geese family crossing Catalpa east of Springfield. It was nice and cool riding through the valley. The VFW guys were glad to see us as usual. One of them had a nice Victory motorcycle parked outside.
On Sunday, I rode the Bolton's 115K permanent with Dan. We left at 6:00. We hoped to see some trans-continental riders along the section between Fair Grove and Bolton's and were not disappointed. We saw one couple eastbound as we were heading west. They seemed lightly loaded with just small backpacks. They may have been credit card tourers. On the way out, we ran into some aggressive dogs between US 13 and H Highway. They were still aggressive on the return, and I had to get off my bike to keep them at bay. Naturally, they lived at the top of a hill, so we were going slow both ways. The next hill over we ran into a couple from Oregon heading west. They had flown out to Virginia for the ride back. We warned them of the dogs. Another hill later. we ran into a single rider heading west and warned him of the dogs. Just before H Highway we saw a second single rider westbound and again warned him of the dogs. It was pretty hot when we got back to Springfield about 12:30. We were both glad we were not riding a 200K that day.
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| Geese crossing Catalpa |
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| Doug, Steve and Tom at the VFW |
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| Victory Motorcycle |
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| Tom took this picture |
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| Farmhouse and barn |
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| Oregon Trans-America riders heading west-What loads! |
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| Single rider heading west |
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| 2nd single rider heading west & Dan heading east |
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