Sunday Ride

 Sunday was a great ride with my wife. We made it up into Nebraska via the scenic highway K7. It was a really beautiful ride. After Atchison the road transforms from straight, flat, boring, and heavily traveled into a nice curvy scenic ride. We made a pit stop at the scenic four state overlook in White Cloud KS, took a few photos, grabbed a geocache, and then kept on moving North. not for long though. Shortly after entering Nebraska hwy 7 ends and you are thrown onto 159. We grabbed a geocache at the mouth of 159 and 7 and then headed back the way we came. The plan was lunch at Lopez Mexican

restaurant in Atchison but we found out that they were closed. We elected to head back to Leavenworth and do our early dinner as Case Agave instead. It was delicious. For what started out as a rainy and dreary day, it was a gorgeous ride and a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. Along with all of the scenery we also saw a ton of reptiles along our path. Couple snakes, loads of frogs (alive and deceased), and a variety of other winged and scaled animals. I would run this road again anytime. If you take 14 out of Leavenworth up to where it runs into 7/73 and then a few other side roads along the way, it breaks up the straight and flat section between Leavenworth and Atchison quite nicely.

First Group Dinner Ride

Tonight is the first of our monthly dinner rides at CII (my work). We are planning on running some of the roads around Weston across to 116 and then over to Atchison for dinner. Should be a good time. I was hoping that my buddy on his CBR would show but family activities came up, perhaps next month.

This is actually going to be the first of two groups rides for me this week. I will also be leading a ride on Saturday. There may only be three bikes on that ride unfortunately though, at least that is how things are looking right now. Kind of makes me wish I had done Arkansas again this weekend instead of agreeing to lead/ plan the ride. Should be a good time either way though and hopefully more people will show up in the end.


Follow up:
Well, thanks to a couple detours along the way we ended up running Hwy5 to 435 to N to a little known back road I will not share, up to Weston up P across H and back down to O'Mallys. It was a nice ride. Took about an hour and nine minutes to run. The food was great down at O'Mally's and I finally ventured into the underground bar. I am planning on going back Saturday night with my wife and checking it out again.

Here are some crappy photos from the underground to give you an idea:

Almost Friday

Well, the weekend is right around the corner. Took it long enough. There are a lot of plans and hopefully the weather will not hamper too many. There was talk of a long overnight DS/ pavement ride, the weather has pushed that back for a few weeks though. Perhaps we will be able to make it happen the weekend after the group ride on April 21st.

I tried my hand at some light video editing these past few days and learned a few things:

1. It is very very time consuming
2. While fun and interesting to you, not every crappy homemade video I produce needs to be shared with the world at large. Many do not need to be shared at all. EVER.
3. Any computer you previously thought to be decent performs like crap under the work load induced by video editing.

So, this weekend looks like a great birthday celebration weekend and should be good fun. Some geocaching, maybe a movie, couple decent restaurants (including my favorite on Friday), some video games, beer, and if the weather changes, maybe we will even get a chance to get out and ride!