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Once again our Honeysuckle Moon ride to Reelfoot was a rousing success. We had 27 souls on seventeen motorcycles plus two more in a Buick giving us a grand total of 29 people. We met at the Kroger store at 3:15, well everybody but your fearless leader anyway and I use that term loosely. Somehow I got the times mixed up and thought we were to meet at 3:45 and depart at 4:15. I was thirty minutes off. I guess I'm gettin' old. You think? Nahhhh. Just a little brain fade. Happens to the best of us.
We rode to Brownsville then followed highway 19 thru Nutbush, hometown of Tina Turner, and on to Gates and Halls where we took a leg stretch. Then it was down the bluff and into the Mississippi river bottoms where we picked up Hwy 121, the levee road, followed it to 78 and on in to Ridgley. After searching for the shortcut to Lakeview the last several years we finally hit it and arrived through the back door as Catfish Floyd would say and on schedule too I might add.
We were served promptly and the food, well, it's gone downhill a bit in my opinion but, I still ate it all. I heard someone comment that the ice tea taste like instant too and I agreed. Hildia left a fish fillet on her plate and I didn't learn why until later at home.
Stan and Nina and Terry and MC scooted back to Shelby County after dinner and the rest of us headed for Albino Road. We call it that because when you ride it at night I swear you can hear banjo pickin' coming outta' the woods. It's a great ride just don't break down back in there. You could end up dead or neutered or something...As one member put it, if it weren't so many of us he would be downright scared.
The full moon popped up on schedule at 7:44 at 177 degrees right where the star gazers promised it would and it escorted us all the way to Memphis. Actually it was not quite full but it was so close you couldn't tell the difference and it was the best we could get on a Saturday night this year.
We stopped in Dyersburg for gas and ice cream then headed for the barn. Hildia and I arrived home at 11:30 and that's when I learned that she had started getting ill at the restaurant. Of course the motorcycle ride home with all the leaning, turning and bouncing aggravated the situation and by the time we arrived home she was really sick. She took some medicine that eventually made her feel a little better and we finally got to bed around 2:30. She never mentioned it on the ride home or at the Sonic in Dyersburg so I didn't have a clue. Why didn't you say something I asked? Her answer; she didn't want to ruin the ride for everybody.
Roll Call: Terry & MC Scott, David Elston & Brenda Crawford, Rick & Donna Hightower, Chat & Linda Lofton, Lou & Carla Nathan, Todd Simpson, Mark Hansen, Buck & Donna Perminter, Charlie & Darnel Gibson, Tim & Linda Duncan, Stan & Nina Viets, Mike & Bonnie Zikoski, Paul Romesburg, Dan Randall, Hildia Max & Yours Truly Plus guest riders Dane and Kath.
A few interesting facts about our ride courtesy of twenty seven US Government Satellites: We rode a grand total of 257 miles, our average speed was 49.1 MPH &. Saddle time logged was five hours and ten minute. Maximum velocity attained: 83.7 MPH
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