Motorcycle Rides With Unexpected Things Seen

[carolinarider09]

This may not be  something you are all interested in but, as I have been riding since 2001 and taking real trips since 2004, I have seen many things that I did not expect to see while on the road. 

The beginning was February 2004.

I started planning some long rides ( well 1,500 miles or more round trip) for some of the people I worked with and some of their friends. 

The first ride was with three riders and myself.  From there it expanded to 10 or more and then it returned to "three" of my closest riding friends, from about 2009 on. 

Each trip is documented via photos and movies.  And, after 2006 or so, each trip is documented via the route proposed from Microsoft Streets and Trips and a Garmin GPS.

But the trip is not specifically what this thread should be about.  I suggest that we talk about the things we found, saw, or experienced that we did not at all expected. 

Most of those things I will post here are sort of simple things but things that surprised me none the less. 

Key West, March 2004

The first trip and the first unexpected thing I saw was on our trip to Key West in March of 2004.  I sort of knew about Key West but had never heard of the "Hogs Breath Salon" (0:49 at the ink below).

And of course I knew that US 1 ended in Key West, Florida, but I did not expect to see the "0" mile marker sign (1:00 at the link below).

And yes I still have my T-shirt from the Hogs Breath Saloon. 

Oh, I am the guy on the left at the beginning of the video linked below.

https://rumble.com/v70c7fe-trip-to-key-west-our-first-march-2004.html

[GiG]

One time a horse jumped out of the ditch and tried to run me down   

[carolinarider09]

Trip to Key West 2007 (Our Third)

https://rumble.com/v70c7uk-2007-trip-to-key-west.html

Truck Stop at time 1:44  Cafe 27 US 27 north of Miami, FL

Trip to Maine  August 2007

https://rumble.com/v5qdnlh-2007-trip-to-maine-via-canada.html

The Blue Bird Dinner - (Andy Griffin Show) 0:16

New York - Watkins Glen 2:05

Ontario Canada - Days Inn Emergency Exit (what about snow) 3:03

Seymore Lake Market 4:42 (the reason Billy was grinning at time 4:44 is because of what you can see at time 4:45)

Princeton University 7:18

Grave Digger 8:28

[carolinarider09]

In September of 2017 we went to Nova Scotia for a third time (fourth for my wife and I).   We wanted to do another tour of the Cabot Trail.


The trip was to taken 13 days and would cover 4,355 miles.  

Our plans were to spend days nine and ten in Sydney, NS and explore the Cabot Trail and Cape Breton Highlands National Park. 

The route we had planned.



However, it was a very rainy day on day one of our stop in Sydney  and we looked for another alternative “tour”.  I checked stuff on my laptop (which I always look with me on trips) and found the Cape Breton Miners' Museum in Glace Bay Nova Scotia, Canada.

So, we rented a car (why ride in the rain for a tour of an underground coal mine).  And that is what we found.  We were not only underground but it was also under the Atlantic Ocean.

Miners Museum Cape Breton

https://www.minersmuseum.com/

Think of that, touring a coal mine under.a body of water……..  It was real and I do have one picture. 



I believe Billy, my riding partner, is the tall man directly in front and to the right in the image.

I forget what we did on Day Two of our stay.  I think we just toured Sydney.  It was a nice place and we were not totally upset we missed the Cabot Trail ride.   And, in truth, we were not totally disappointed.