My bud and youngest Grandson Ryder who usually spends Fridays with me was feeling a little puny so he stayed home yesterday and left me with an open day. Obviously the adult, mature thing to do would have been a 12 hour day in my shop catching up on the repair of customer's firearms.
Yep, it was time for a road trip instead!
I rode down to the Medora covered bridge by way of Terre Haute for a quick visit with the wife. Then it was 46 to Bean Blossom and little Nashville (no stopping or shopping on a guy trip) and on to 135 through Story, then South to the bridge to sit on a picnic table and and have lunch. I rode past Lick Creek road made famous by the Big Damn Band, Greasy Creek road, Brown County state park and many cool little bits of God's Country. I never get tired of rural Indiana and can never get away from the populated areas fast enough.
135 was covered with debris in the blind corners and elsewhere and dangerous. South of Story I came across a crash. A rider heading North had slid in unseen gravel, went off the road, hit a rock, careened back into the road as he crashed and hit an SUV in a glancing, head-on blow. His bike was destroyed, with one fork snapped and it had torn one inner front fender out of the SUV.
Amazingly, he was hurt but didn't appear to have any broken bones and was able to talk and walk. I think a large gauge needle to suck out the blood that was welling up in the muscle of his calf was in his future though. Not fun and I shouldn't have mentioned it to him, he was near puking already I think.
I stayed with them for the 30 or so minutes it took for an LEO to get there. Really glad I wasn't staying with a body instead of a living human. That's the 2nd or third crash I've came across on that road. It's a fun but challenging road which is why we'd both ridden many miles from opposite directions to wind up at that spot.
I love motorcycling, I love it with all my heart, but if you ride long enough, you will taste the road and the road will taste you. Whether life continues or ends at that point is anybodies guess. But, we're all dying anyway, if you don't live right up until that moment when you die, you might as well have stayed in the womb.
http://www.medoracoveredbridge.com/
