Did You Ride Today? Where To and How Far?

[crazygene49]

Awesome pics, thanks for posting!

[Loafer]

I thought BD was gone for the weekend, Friday thru Monday?

[dlander1225]

Road 300 miles today across the NORTH CASCADE HGWY here in Washington. Boy was it a cold ride but beautiful. Went to Winthrop and back home to Arlington. Not often this sunny in October.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Great day for riding yesterday. Rode up to sit by the Tennessee River. Total miles for the day was 29.

[Yellow Jacket]

Nope, too busy working.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Rode up to Guntersville, AL and sat by the Tennessee River again. Total miles for the day, 29.

[ponch]

Did 100 today for work. 30˚ got pretty cold this morning.

[cactusjack]

Rode to work today. 55° at 0615 AM. 88° for the ride home. Leather jacket got a little warm.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Rode to work today. 55° at 0615 AM. 88° for the ride home. Leather jacket got a little warm.

It was 60˚ on the way home for me, which is fine. Tomorrow should be a few degrees warmer, then cold again...

[Cajunrider]

Took a day of vacation today and rode to Avery Island. Visited the Jungle Gardens and toured the Tobasco Sauce Factory. Passed through Weeks Island on the way home. 190 miles round trip.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by Cajunrider

Took a day of vacation today and rode to Avery Island. Visited the Jungle Gardens and toured the Tobasco Sauce Factory. Passed through Weeks Island on the way home. 190 miles round trip.

Was the tabasco factory worth the tour?

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Only rode 5 miles today as I had to top off the tank and pay our insurance. Cold this morning but in the lower 60s this afternoon.

[usranger74]

180 miles today. South from Omaha, cutting over to MO back up thru IA and back into NE.

[Cajunrider]

Originally Posted by ponch

Was the tabasco factory worth the tour?

The tour is nice. Start off by looking at some relics from when the the business first started in the 1800's. You then move on to a little theater where you see a 10 minute video on the history of the Tobasco business including the pepper planting, picking, processing, and 3 year aging in oak barrels covered with salt from the mine. We then toured the bottling plant. It was my second trip. We will go back in the spring when the egrets are hatching their young. It's only a little over an hour from my home. The 5 salt dome islands are fascinating places. You can visit Jefferson, Avery, and Weeks Islands by driving onto the islands. Cote Blanche (French for White Coast) and Belle Isle are not accesible to the public. Both are teaming with wild game including hogs, Louisiana Black Bear, deer, etc. Belle Isle is the site of two mining disasters in the 1968 where 21 salt miners died in an underground fire and again in the mid 70's when an outburst of sand and methane resulted in an underground explosion killing 5 more miners. The mine was intentionally flooded and abandoned a couple of years later. It is now private land with a hunting club that only allows bow hunting of deer. Avery, Cote Blanche, and Weeks Islands are still producing salt. If ever you are down here, the islands are well worth visiting. Jefferson Island has the old servant quarters which were converted to Bed and Breakfast cottages. We plan on spending a couple of nights early in the upcoming spring.

[cactusjack]

Some buddies from work and I rode down to Tucson to eat lunch at a Mexican restaurant featured on Man v Food on the Travel Channel. President Clinton dined there in 1999. The food was outstanding!

It was about a 230 mile round trip, but unbeknownst to us, there was a huge bicycle race in Tucson (Tour de Tucson) today and we ended up stuck in traffic waiting for the police to let us through several times. At least it wasn't 110 degrees today. There are only two main routes into Tucson from the North - I-10 and Hwy 77. They closed 77 and we had to wait 40 minutes to get past the road block. Everywhere we went, we were held up by that damned race.

Driving in Tucson is difficult on a good day because they don't have the modern infrastructure Phoenix has. Narrow roads, only the I-10 freeway which skirts the west side of town and then heads east to NM along the south side. This is a metro area of over 1 million people, too.

It was overcast most of the day, temps in the 60's. Very nice. I'll post some pics later.

Here we are taking a break about 65 miles south of Chandler. In the first pic, that monument in front of the bikes is a memorial to western film star Tom Mix, who died there when he rolled his Stutz-Bearcat on Hwy 79 in 1940. The third picture is proof we ride with anybody.