Country roads 7/12/2009 ride

I'll answer your mail.
I love riding on rainy days and there are 5 points for rain rides....even two drops.

Next we are trying to have rides alternating SAT/SUN to meet the desires of all you Fossils. Making it early leaves times for church before noon; depending on your church. Unless this ride is rain delayed; the next ride will be on a Saturday or late afternoon.
I checked http://wunderground.com while posting. the rain chances are 10% until 11:00 AM. Everyone should be home by then.

More on tomorrow's ride. Total miles from Hwy 153 and Hwy 58 is 40 miles. There will be two planned stops for fuel, rest, and other necessities. One will be at the second gas station we pass. This is 8 miles from the park. The second stop will be @Hwys 58 & 60 intersection. This is about 19 miles from the start. So all can plan gas etc.
Of course we will stop more often as needed.

We will now finish @ Levy's for a special snack:German chocolate & caramel brownies and fruit. There will be lemonade, ginger-ale, and water.


http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=37341&hourly=1&yday=192&weekday=Sunday

Shiftless Sister

warmer weathers coming

Saturday is the free admission to the Cleveland community center. There is a wonderful quilt show and contest. Bill Levy and I plan to go.
We are itchin to scoot a little
contact us if you want to ride
nudge nudge hint hint

shiftless sister

Free treats

Since many Fossils are on a fixed budget and the rest of us have lower budgets {thank you wall street} here are some freebies:
April 21 Ben & Jerry's one free cone
April 29 Baskin Robbins a scoop for 31 cents
July 11 7-Eleven A free 7 oz.Slurpee
Sept. 24 Coldstone Creamery a free ice cream treat (donation to Make-A-Wish is encouraged)

we could take a ride to Ben and jerry's B&R and Coldstone huh? Huh? nudge nudge

Spontaneous rides

WEll, with so much happening with the club, I have been shabby in posts.  Lots of people are contacting Bill Levy after reading the articles wanting to know more and/or join the club. Seems there are many "mature" riders wanting to ride in a group.

So about the ride. This is a fine ride for Metropolitan crowd.

Saturday Mr. Bones and I went to Richard Heck's barbershop to give out applications. We saw Lynn's and Bill's new scoots. Lynn went down in ccs and Bill went up.

As we started to leave Bill said he and Phyllis would like to ride, as did Lynn and Richard so everyone was to call me. Richard and Lynn couldn't make it; so Phyllis, the Bills and I met at Harrison Bay, had lunch at the restaurant there, then took off toward Birchwood.

We went on the ride I hope the club will take to see the Memorial in Meigs County where the Indians were shipped off on what would later be known as the "trail of tears".

Nice ride, we missed the rain and it really cooled off. The heat rose as we reached Birchwood but on the scoots it was bearable.

The memorial is getting some additions.  There were folks working so we went in.

[be very wary of the large rocks at the beginning]. We stayed for a while, not too long, and went we tried to get out....THEY HAD LOCKED THE GATE!!!

Well Mr. Bones rode his scoot out by going around the gate, then he saved me by  riding my scoot out next to the gate AND (wait for it) there by the side of the gate was THE KEY....just there on the ground. 

I think this was great news to Phyllis and Bill who were watching and probably thinking, "how will we do this?"

There was no sign, closes at xxxxx time. So  when the club rides we will look for the key first. :)

This is near the wildlife refuge where the cranes abide in the spring.; nice about 55 mile ride if we all meet at the 58 Waffle House, go to the memorial, and return. We could pack lunches and sit by the Hiawassee.

OR we could go further by crossing the river, going to Dayton, eating lunch there, and return to town via Dayton Blvd.

I like the idea of spontaneous rides, organized club rides, joining Hill City United for rides. I just love to ride.

Shiftless Sister aka SisterofTorment