Well, it looks like it is payback time for making Skidplate sleep in the forest last night. Now we are swimming in luxury in St. Marys, PA.
I suggested that we try to spot some elk and this is the only place we could get to stay. Skid is delighted.
It was a very cold night. The thermometer on the motorcycle is showing 44 degrees right now. I still managed to get a pretty good nights sleep even with the cold. I got a solid 9 hours of sleep and it is looking like today is going to be a perfect day. There is not a cloud in the sky and I am sure once the sun gets above the mountains it is going to warm up fast!
I am spending this weekend riding PA Rt. 6.
I am writing this from inside my tent at Twin Lakes Recreation Area near Kane, PA. It is a very nice campground in a very nice area of Pennsylvania. It is getting a little brisk right now and Slidplate is whining about being cold. I am not even in the sleeping bag but I am comfortable.
Tomorrow we will continue east on 6 until we get bored with it. We have no specific plans so it is impossible to know where we may spend the night tomorrow.
I know there are a lot of people who are really interested in covered bridges. I have to admit that I am not one of them, but I sure do love riding motorcycles. Last weekend I was trying to dream up some kind of an excuse to ride my motorcycle when I decided I would ride to each of the covered bridges in Ashtabula.
Click here for a GPX file with all the waypoints.
GPS makes attempting such a thing pretty simple. I simply downloaded a file of waypoints for each of the bridges and told the GPS to route me to each one of them. I know a lot of people say that a GPS takes away the freedom of riding a motorcycle, but I think it does just the opposite. I think it gives complete freedom when you are riding. It would be so much more work to do a ride like this without a GPS. With the GPS all you do is enjoy the ride and you don’t have to worry one bit where the next turn might be.
We have a new nomination for a helmet sticker!
The following email was sent to me:
Tank
Since I purchased my ’06, Heritage Softail on 8/17/05. I have ridden over 33,000 miles…. and I have never been caught in the rain. The bike has never been wet except to wash it. I have ridden the BR Parkway to D.C. and back; several trips to PC Beach; the Natchez Trace Parkway; and I live within an hour of the Dragon, but not one drop of rain. Why can’t I win the Lottery? Also, add my girlfriend, the TNbikerbitch, too. She has ridden with me on her ’07 Honda Shadow over 15,000 miles and she hasn’t been wet either.
Tnsoftailrider
The whole helmet sticker concept is to reward acts of stupidity and/or acts of greatness. As I look over an application for a helmet sticker I am looking for an accomplishment that is worthy of the very high praise that a helmet sticker conveys. I have to tell you that I really don’t see much in the way of stupidity here.
Here is what is working against you:
- You nominated yourself. That never looks good. If you want to nominate yourself you are better off to pretend to be somebody else when you nominate yourself. It just looks better that way.
- You speak of riding in comfort for 3 years. Riding in comfort? What is that all about?
- Why would anybody wash a motorcycle?
- I am not even going to touch on the fact that your girlfriend has been with you a long time and has never been wet.
You do seem like a good guy, and I would love to see you get a helmet sticker, so lets see what we can put down in favor of getting a helmet sticker:
- 33,000 miles is a long way for a Harley. How many rebuilds on the engine did that take?
- You live in Tennesse, and you live near the Gap.
- With a name like TNbikerbitch it sounds like your girlfriend could probably kick my sissy ass so I would not want to upset her.
I am sorry my man, but I just cannot award a helmet sticker at this time, but I know how you can earn one.
Next time I am down there we will get together and do some riding. If I am there it will rain. We will then ride in the rain and I will give you a helmet sticker!