January 19th ride

Well I guess we didn't scare them off. Since it was going to be another warmish day we decided to ride. We met at the usual place. We say Tractor Supply but we mean the gas station by Tractor Supply.

Once again the wind is out of the south (but not nearly as strong as last week) so we decided to drive north again to Rush Springs go west to Sterling, Elgin, Porter Hill, Meers, Cache then to Lawton. So off we go it is warm but not quite as warm as last Sunday afternoon.
The closer we got to Porter Hill  you could see Mount Scott in the distance. I know if you have been to or live in Colorado, Mount Scott isn't big at all, but here in Oklahoma it is a Mountain.

We drove past Meers and through the Wildlife Refuge to Cache. As we were driving through the tiny town of Cache we saw a Chisholm Corner, I thought they were only on every corner in Duncan.  We finally made it to our destination Texas Road House. We had talked earlier in the day and decided a steak sounded good, they have good steaks, peanuts to snack on and rolls with cinnamon butter. Yum Yum

The steaks, chicken and fish were wonderful, the waitress was a good sport when our guys were giving her a hard time. All too soon it was time to head home, we were not going to make it home by dark. Sunset was at 5:49 and it was 5:49. I had thought it might get dark before we got home so I brought a sweatshirt and my chaps. The others with us won't make the mistake of not packing theirs again. It was cool riding home but we only had about 45 minutes to get home. As we were driving home on Hwy 7 I asked my driver how many miles from home and I got a count down as we passed each mile getting closer to home. That really made the time pass fast and I forgot I was getting cold.
I'm just wondering if we will be as lucky next weekend with the weather, time will tell.

View from the Back. The sunset was beautiful in the mirror.

January 12th Ride

One of the reason's I love Oklahoma so much is we can ride almost all year long. Monday of this week it was 11 degrees, today it was 73. Since it was a beautiful day we decided to take a short ride. I had the brilliant idea of going east to Velma by the back roads and back. Of course I didn't think about the fact that the winds were blowing straight out of the south. My driver Keith said he was thinking of going North or South so maybe the wind wouldn't toss us around so much.
This picture shows the temperature and maybe also the wind speed.

 Can you believe 73 in January??
We decided to travel north to Rush Springs, home of the Watermelon Festival. then turn east and drive to Cox City. At one time Cox City was a bustling oil town. It was established in 1927 and had a school up to 8th grade until the 70's at least. A lady we ride motorcycles with  actually lived there and went to school to 8th grade. We chose this road because it is hilly and curvy.

We hadn't been on this road in quite a few years and it was pretty rough, lots of pot holes , and the wind was making it real fun to stay on the road.  My driver is excellent and he kept us upright.
When we got to Cox City we first passed the Cox City Bar then made our way down the street and saw this sign.

The only two things in Cox City besides oil field sites are a bar and a church.

Today we road with a couple that have just been riding again for a few weeks. The road when they were younger and just got this bike running a few weeks ago.They really got broken in today, riding in the wind

Meet Shane and Karen. I hope we haven't scared them off.
We didn't get to ride for a long time, but we were thankful we got to ride on a January day and didn't have to wear layers upon layers of clothes to stay warm.

Can you see Keith's new play toy? Maybe in future blog's I can figure out how to attach a video.

View from the Back!

New Year's Day Ride

I hope to do a better job this year of journaling our rides No! I am going to do a better job. Our friends from OKC have a tradition of riding to the state capital on New Years Day and taking pictures in front of the capital building.. When we were invited to go I said as long as the temperature is above 30 at 9am. The time we would need to leave to make it to the meeting place by 11am. A few days later I get a text: If we moved the meeting time would it be easier for you guys to make it. I replied yes if we could move it back an hour it would be warmer. The decision was made to meet at noon. Yeah we will make it.
We haven't ridden much since it got real cold so we forget how long it takes to put on all the layers. But around 10:30 we are bundled up and hitting the road.

We have a nice ride. It is sunny and I think cool but one of my friends on Facebook commented on my picture "That's a bit Warm!" By the time we get to OKC I'm feeling the cold. It is not real bad I have been lots colder.
We meet up with the group, give lots of hugs because we haven't seen them in a couple of months, and head out for the capital building.

Do we look like a rowdy bunch?? Someone thought so because we had only been there a couple of minutes when a highway patrol office showed up to watch us.
We all had our individual pictures taken.

 Then we headed back to Bricktown to eat lunch. We had a great meal at Abuello's. Then decided to head home before the cold front hits.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

We got home around 4:15 and the cold front blew in around 5. This was a wonderful start to what will be a great year. 

 

 

view from the back