DDT (12)
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Sometimes ya just gotta go...
Winter Springs, FL - Occasionally...
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« on: January 14, 2022, 07:39:39 PM » |
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MBOG...
Oh yeah!!! So many 'More Big Old Grins'! A couple of perplexing questions were also answered. For starters, I observed no skill rust at all resulting from our recent layover. Nope, not even one Boo-Boo, dagnabit, or aw shucks all day. Our girl, of course, performed her usual sensational, and it was with great relief that we concluded this day without any part on either of us in need of attention, correction, or repair! Just another fantastic day of living the dream!!! Heck, we even stopped a bit early for gas each time... just to make absolutely certain!
Late yesterday my dear friend Sam near Montgomery called to advise that rain was in the forecast there for both Saturday and Sunday. He knew I was returning for yet another medical thing next Monday, and he wanted to see what my schedule was, give me a heads-up on the rain, and remind me the ‘Bug’ was available...
Well, ain't that something...? I'd been studying the weather predictions in earnest for a couple of days myself, and near as I could tell, Sunday was indeed a washout for riding, but I'd been convinced I had time to ride a second day on Saturday and still beat the rain by several hours. I usually defer to locals on things as important as that, however, so... now what?
We could ride the whole way in one day, as we'd done routinely for many years. Of course, we could take a chance and stay with my 'near plan', or I could try to come up with a car to drive... Rescheduling my appointment was not an option, as the dermatologist would be doing a ‘procedure’ on me following a bad biopsy of some skin tissue removed from my face a week or two ago. The second option was clearly the most desirable, but I'm not big on gambling on weather forecasts.
So, the call to head out a wee bit early today (Friday) and see how we’d hold up was made. We'd ride as long as we felt like it, but with crossed fingers fallback on option #2 if need be. If we felt like it, however, we just might go all the way... Naturally that would necessitate a few compromises...
The largest by far was having to miss all of the backroad dipsy-doodles that normally comprise our style and our route evolutions. Dang, the Slab for about half our ride, and four laned roads for a quarter of the way. The two laned roads we still had to take were all extremely familiar to us by now, so much of the longed-for luster was absent, as we pressed onward along what was considered the most expedient route. Still, we did make it all the way... and, in relatively good condition!
A nose-to-the-grindstone blitz is not a favorite type of ride for us, but it does beat by a significant margin riding in rain... especially cold rain! The Gerbings were needed all but the last fifty miles or so, even though we’d had sunshine all the way. Nothing actually to gripe about at all, I’m pleased to report, and besides, it sure does a body good to stretch itself and reach beyond the more typical patterns now and then...
It was a rewarding day, and it was capped off when Sam admitted he'd seen only part of the forecast for Saturday when he'd called... We would have been OK with option #2, the original near-plan after all, he conceded. However, if we'd gone that way, we'd have missed all that actually did happen, resulting in my admission that things had really been rather special... and that I'm truly quite happy things worked out just the way they had!
This day had been an important date for another reason, too. Although not at all what I'd thought it might be, it was still the first day of our long-awaited next coddiewomple! As I was saying good-bye to my SIL just before departure early this morning after she'd asked when we might be returning... I told her exactly what I love to say to anyone asking such... “I have no idea! I figure a couple of months at least, but it could also be several months... or not. Like I said... I have no idea...”
DDT
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