Ride Report for April 2nd
"Ride-to Meeting"
by Sunny
| On April 2nd, our club rode to Abilene, for our quarterly meeting with
Chapter 1. We left the house this morning, at 9:20, stopped to fill up our tanks and then met up with the rest of our chapter's members, in Potter's parking lot. We left out just after 10:00 a.m. and on the way through Albany, we stopped and collected a couple more riders, then again stopped at the roadside park on Microwave Hill, just west of Albany. There we had a short meeting and ate our sack lunches, then hauled butt on out to Fort Phantom Lake, where Chapter 1 was meeting. We took 600 off 180 and that's a nice curvy ride. We passed by the old Fort and all it's chimneys. That's an awesome sight. Chapter 1 welcomed us. The meeting was good but the heat was on! Only a weak breeze off Fort Phantom Lake, to take the searing edge off. Some of our group headed back to Breckenridge, while the rest of us stopped at Oscar's Mexican Restaurant. Good food, good service, great air conditioning and located just outside Abilene. They were closing up but opened their doors to us and fed us anyway and for that, we are truly grateful. It felt like it was close to 100 degrees when we were at the lake and saddled back up and by golly, when we finally rode back through Albany, one of the time/temp signs said it was 90 degrees. We didn't get the rain that was predicted. It was clear sky all the way. It was a good ride and everyone made it there and back with zero problems. Just the way we like it. I hope all had as good a weekend. :-) -- Sunny |