SPRING has arrived!! I think?

Today started out to be one of those days that you sit at work thinking about how pretty it is outside and what you would give to be off work and riding your bike. Well, about 11:45 I was talking to my boss who told me that I could take some time off during the week for the 4 hrs that I worked last Saturday. It took me all of 2 seconds to say, "what about today?". It was 12:15 and I was headed out of the building and home to knock the dust off the bike and put a few miles on her.

It turns out that it was so dusty that I had to do a quick wash before heading out. While I am doing all this, my wife is all over me about how I get to ride and she doesn't because she has to work( by the way, she works from home). With all the riding gear on and bike all shined up, it is time to ride. Now it is about 1:30 and I am off on my journey. My wife is standing in the door giving me this look like I cant believe you are going without me. All I know is that I am riding today if it kills me, and from the look on my wife's face it might happen if I don't come back in a little while and pick her up.

I head out of town North through the back roads. I go right by my mom's house(no one home) and decide that I am going to venture some roads that I have never ridden before and just see where they take me. Knowing the whole time that I have about 2 hrs before I have to be back to pick up my accessory(my wife, its a long story that I will tell sometime). The weather is so nice today with a mild breeze and the temp is still rising into the lower 70's. Riding along at about 40 mph and just cruising the back roads with no one else on them but me and the occasional farmer. It's rides like this that I do my best thinking and processing of what is going on in my life. It just seems all the stress of work, and now school, just slip away and the next thing you know you are smiling from ear to ear like a shit eating possum.

Oops it is 3:15 and I need to head home. 4:00 and we are out the drive and out on the road headed to who knows where. All I know is we are riding somewhere for the next few hours. We head out of town going Southeast on Hwy99. Cutting through the Barfield community over to Barfield Rd. We hit Armstrong Valley Rd and turn towards Shelbyville. We catch Midland-Fosterville Rd towards Hwy 231 where we take a right for a few miles and then we catch the road over to Historical Belle Buckle for a quick stop at the Cafe for some good ole country veggies. I have the Beans and Cornbread with a side of New Potatoes. Jen has a chicken salad sandwich. We get through fueling up the body and we are off again out of Belle Buckle headed towards Christiana and our friends house to stop in for a quick visit. After the visit with the Patterson's we head down Hwy 231 back towards the Boro and home. We pull into the drive way just as the sun is setting and the temp is quickly dropping. 102 miles today is the verdict and two souls that are healed for a few days from a wonderful ride on some back roads.

Brian