Slightly damp ride June 23

Today we headed off to Friendship to knock off another county & city on our list.  Got rid of Adams county  & Friendship from our list.  


Pretty much all the excitement happened on the way to Friendship.  First thing was outside of Princeton the traffic came to a complete and sudden stop.  I think I actually heard Ed's tire squeal.  We'll call that heart check #1.  Heart check #2 came a little while later when some old lady decided that the curve in the highway was optional and came heading straight at us.  That was the last heart check for the day.


Animal sightings for the day were plentiful.  We saw 3 brown cranes and I saw 2 white cranes, possibly whooping cranes.  We also saw 2 deer, 5 turkeys and a woodchuck.  There was also a dive-bombing suicidal bird that went after Ed and many, many brown winged creatures that we couldn't agree if they were butterflies or flying grasshoppers.  They felt a lot like grasshoppers when they hit me, but Ed said he thought they were butterflies.


Just outside of Princeton, we did get rained on for about a half hour, but it wasn't bad, just a light rain that was pretty annoying.


The ride back from Friendship was very uneventful.  We had a great ride with lots of hills and curves in the road.  Not a lot of traffic, and riding back through the hills we did get to  see all the crops growing.  Some of the farmers were irrigating and got a little too close to the road so we got to ride through some very brief fake rain showers.  When we were in the open spots, the birds of prey were soaring looking for a meal.  I always love watching them just glide.


We stopped at the Wheelhouse for a bite to eat and they were having a steak fry and had a band.  We didn't have steak and we sat inside and ate burgers.  It was the best bacon cheeseburger I've had in a while, just the right amounts of everything including grease.


200 miles more put on today, and we are looking forward to riding the next 2 days for H-D World Ride June 24 - 25 and getting some more things knocked off our ABC's of touring list.