Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence
The first Gap trip of 2009 is underway!
I am spending the night in Richmond, KY, and will arrive at the Gap tomorrow morning. Lots of RideOhio folks are coming down also. I even hear rumor that Verne may show up, and we are also expecting a visitor from Australia! It should be a great week!
The SPOT will be running 24 hours a day, so check in on my location and see where we are!
Beautiful day in West Virginia! I have the official first sunburn of the year! It is 90 degrees down here and I am having the time of my life!
Saturday I took a ride with Johnny, Pete, and Sharon to the Presque Isle Casino.
Now I have to say I am not crazy about gambling. It’s just not something I enjoy. If I would win once in a while I probably could enjoy it more, but I never win so I just don’t enjoy it too much.
You know what I did enjoy about the place? The buffet! They had some seriously good food! Usually buffet fish is awful, but the fish they had was great. The macaroni and cheese was almost as good as what they have at Mobleys. Other very good items were the brisket, italian sausage, and the cookies. It was about $12 for the lunch buffet so it was very reasonable as well. On Friday and Saturday they add prime rib and crab legs to the buffet. Believe me, I can eat me some prime rib and crab legs. I intend to make a few trips up there this year for that!
I also have my Spot Satellite Messenger up and running. You can read about it at the link at the top of the page. You can see my last location on the front page of this site, and I have set up two subdomains where you can just check in to see my location. For a basic map showing my general location you can go to http://spot.ridewithtank.com. This should work well with any cell phone. For a more detailed view go to http://spotd.ridewithtank.com. This takes you to a dynamic map that can be panned and zoomed to show my exact location and you can also exchange the map for a satellite view to better see where I am located. Want a fun way to get a helmet sticker? Use your cell phone to track me. Anyone who actually finds me gets a helmet sticker!
Sunday I decided to take a quick ride to Tionesta. As often happens, one thing led to another and I never actually made it to Tionesta. During my travels I did come across a mysterious town. Since I am all about adventure, I decided to explore this town. Hopefully somebody will know the story of this place and fill me in.
In the picture to the left you can see what appears to be the main building in the town. It appears to be very old but it is in very good condition, as are most of the buildings in this town.
The grounds are maintained like a golf course, but there was absolutely no sign of life.
There must be times when the place is very busy because there were pavilions ond chairs everywhere, just no people to be seen. It was actually a little bit creepy.
There were a lot of busses and passenger vans parked all over the town, but they had no markings on them to identify them.
As you can see in the picture the streets are all named and there are also streetlights.
Here are some pictures of the many buildings in this town. Notice how abandoned everything seems, but at the same time it is all so well maintained.
Another interesting thing I found was a very large generator.
The buildings mostly seemed to be pretty old, and a lot of them had fallout shelter signs.
There was some activity, because a noise was coming from this building and smoke was coming from the smokestack.
Here are some more pictures:
OK, now you tell me. What is this place? A secret government facility? A religious cult? A college?
I have no idea what it is, but I hope someone out there does know!
It is official now! Spring is finally here! After a long winter I have finally gone on a real ride!
I met Mark for some pancakes in Boardman. We rode through Hillsville and then into Pennsylvania. Headed back into Ohio and followed the Ohio River out of East Liverpool, then crossed into West Virginia and back into Pennsylvania.
It was a bit chilly, but the sun was shining most of the day. We stopped at several parks to stretch our legs. The one above was in Pennsylvania just before we got to East Liverpool.
Here is a nice one that I think was off of PA51. Thats the Beaver river and this wes a really nice park. We are lucky to have so many beautiful parks in this country.
As nice as the parks are, they still could not beat a donut shop. Mark and I agree that we are fans of flat bread, and everybody likes donuts!
