Last ride for the season?

My last ride was on December 4th. I'm hoping for some nice weather in January so I can get out for a bit and play. I guess I'll have to wait and see what January ends up looking like, the weather here has been extremely cold for this time of year (Global warming! RIGHT!)
Later for now!
Too cold to ride!

Aaron

No time for a long ride

What a nice week and weekend it has been! I unfortunately did not have time to take a good long ride this week. With going to college full time (17 credit hours) I end up with a load of homeowrk sometimes, this weekend is one of them.

I managed to ride from Ionia over to Lyons, up to Grand River, then back to Ionia. While not a long ride it certainly felt good, the stress of life seems to get blown off by the wind as you ride. I will be very sad when it is finally time to put the bike up for the season. So far this year I have ridden 2,220 miles, far less than what I wanted, but enough to remove the stresses of life.
I started this blog hoping to show off some of the sight's I've seen while riding, but college has taken first place and I haven't been able to ride much the last couple of months. By the end of next summer I will be done with college, I hope to be on the road more then.
I have pictures of the local sights here in Ionia County, I will be posting them since it is getting too cold to ride now, I hope that is ok?
I will try to post once a week the sights in and around Ionia that have kept me here now for 43 years, what a nice place to live!
Time to head off for now and get ready for Church,

Remamber, it's now what you ride, it's only THAT you ride!

Aaron

Sneaking out!

I was able to sneak out for just a few minutes yesterday and ride the bike, not too far, just far enough to satisfy the urge to ride off into who knows where!
No pictures once again, the batteries in the camera are dead and I keep forgetting to charge them, my bad!
Later all!

Wonderfull Weekend!

This was a wonderful weekend! I rode the bike 70 miles on the back roads, I did not however remember my camera, my bad!
I am hoping that there will be more days like Saturday, I want to take the motorcycle a few more times before the snow flies!
My bike is all set to head out on another ride, all I need is another day over 50 degrees. I absolutely LOVE riding my motorcycle if you haven't figured that out yet It is so fun sometimes it almost feels wrong! November 8th and I'm still riding! I can so handle that.
Untill the snow flies!
It's not WHAT you ride, only THAT you ride!

Later!

White’s bridge

White’s bridge is located only 5 or 6 miles from Fallasburg park, and it is worth the ride! It is located on the dirt portion of White’s Bridge Road at the bottom of the hill. It is still used to get traffic across the river, there is an observation deck to view it from the side and steps going underneath it to view how it is constructed.

It most definitely the day to ride! the sun was shining and the breeze was warm and comfortable, if only every day was as nice. I need to remember to keep the camera batteries charged up, all but two of my batteries were dead since I had not charged them in some time.
When we arrived at the covered bridge there was another biker taking pictures already, it was nice to see someone else had the same idea I had.
I hope to ride to Ada sometime soon and get some pictures of the covered bridge there.Portland will be a destination also, there is an old silo painted up to look like an old time potato chip can, so many pictured to take.
Time to head off for now, time to look for more places to go and take pictures!
Later all!

Fallasburg covered bridge

My brother and I went out for a ride today to see the Fallasburg covered bridge. It was the perfect day to go for a ride, we set out at 11:00am with the sun shining and a pleasant breeze blowing our way.
The road trip ended up being 64 miles total, we stopped at White's bridge and toook a wrong turn and ended up in Belding......still not sure how we managed that one?
Charles happened to see this snake at the edge of the river at Fallasburg Park. After a little research it turns out that it is a "Eastern Fox" snake and it is on the endangered species list here in Michigan and they aren't seen very much anymore.
Time to head off for now, things to do and all. Keep an eye out for something interesting, you never know what your going to find just right around the corner.

Riding in the town of Lyons

My brother and I went on a last minute ride today to the town of Lyons, the main point of the ride was to see the Weber dam, I hadn't been there in so long I could not remember the last time. It certainly was a nice ride there, but once we arrived we found ourselves on the hold side and not the spill side, that's where I wanted to be. After an hour (we made a couple of stops along the way) we arrived at the spill side, a much better picture was waiting!

On the way to the other side of the dam we came upon this AWESOME view, the picture does NOT do it justice! Four feet from the guard rail there was a near vertical 45 to 55 foot drop, SOOoo nice a view!

I HAD to stop and get a picture of this farms fences, the whole fence is comprised of old metal wagon wheels, some people may think this is just junk, I think it is art, so beautiful! the thought that went into its building? the structure flows down the road. I bet there are a thousand wagon wheels here, wonder how long it took to build?

I wonder what this was in its day? a mom and pop store? a place to sell things from the garden? either way it looked like a time capsule to me, I know one thing fro sure, from now on if I am traveling the back roads I will be bringing my camera!My brother and I also stopped at a roadside park in Lyons, something point? a very cool little park that would be a nice place for a summer picnic!


There are so many interesting places in West Michigan, each time I head off for a ride I'll take the camera along with me just in case I happen apon a hidden jem!
Later all!
Me!