of this crappy weather in Michigan. The past few weeks the weather from day to day has ranged from 60 to 20 degrees and changed seemly on an hourly basis. Driving snow with 10 degree wind chills one afternoon to find the snow gone and 45 the next. I decided to find some kind of sanity, loaded the car and headed south.
The Hoosier National Forest along the Ohio River sounded good. It's a 6 hour drive, straight south, and clear 70 degree weather was predicted.
The weather guessers delivered and the first evening was beyond beautiful. The forest was just coming awake with early buds on the trees, violets and daffodils sprouting around the sides of the roads. I didn't come for any epic ride, just some casual cruising in a warmer clime.
Did I say clime? I meant the other "C" word. There is something wrong with my vocabulary these days. It seems there's something about the term "German RIDGE"
that I did not get when I chose the desination.
Every blind winding turn on this side of the river valley
brought a new climb with it.
It's always 50% downhill but I seemed to find inclines
which also delivered some pretty
spectacular scenery
leading to the inevitable honky-tonk where the juke box was wailing country tunes I remembered from grade school (I'm 72!). Sitting at the bar, I saw some good looking burgers come out of the kitchen. I could see the kitchen through the swinging doors and decided to stick with bottled beer (the locals probably develop immunity). Chatting with a local, I was laughing inside listening to a guy complain about the wind while he was on his Harley.
Just a six hour drive was worth it to ride around in shorts, in some beautiful countryside and forest. It might be an excellent destination in the fall when the colors come out, and the temps in Michigan drive me South again.
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