Last Ride of the Season??? Maybe :(

Yes its been awhile since I have written this past month and a half have been very busy, this past Sunday November 6th, 2011, we decided at the last minute to go for what could have been our last ride of the season with some friends.  Dan & Marcy were our leaders for today.

It was cool, but the winds were horrible they were 35-40 miles per hr.  I thought I was gonna be like Mary Poppins and fly off the bike into the sky.  It turned out to be a wonderful late morning and early afternoon.  There were quite a few of us that went, I believe we had about 14 of us with some of us doubled up on motorcycle's and there were 10 motorcycles.  We headed out going North from Noblesville, Indiana to Kokomo, Indiana.  Dan & Marcy did an awesome job taking us up through some really scenic parts of some small towns in between the two major cities.  We went over Morse Reservoir, it was a pretty site to see the sun bouncing off the water as shown in the below selection of pictures.

As we got closer to Kokomo the winds really kicked up and were really bad, we came out on 28 west to US31 and headed north to a wonderful restaurant for some much needed warmth and food.  Good times, Great Friends, and of course awesome food.  The place we ate ate was Half Moon Restaurant & Brewery in Kokomo, Indiana.  Some of us had never been there before and I must say it was one of the best places we had eaten at in a while.  After we ate, we all decided we wanted to stop in at Harley-Davidson of Kokomo, Indiana which was just a block or so south of the restaurant.  The deal breaker of the day for a couple that was with us, didn't turn out so well, as we pulled into the dealership one of couples in the group had the clutch cable break. To make matters worse the dealership even though it was open the Service Department was closed, so a couple of the guys got on the phone and called another Chapter Brother to see if they could round up a trailer to pick up Bill & Janet and their bike.  Three of the riders had to head back home, but the rest of us decided to stick around for a while to ensure that someone was coming to get them, as we stood around we all chatted and swapped stories of the current summer's mishaps.  As the day was winding down it was getting late and we decided to head out towards home with Dan & Marcy in the lead.  We got home and I realized that yes this was going to be the last ride I took of 2011.

I will continue to write in the blog and hopefully fill some of the gaps between September 11th and now November 6th.  Please stay tuned and I will keep your winter full of reading even though we aren't riding I will have some stories to tell as we do activities through out the Winter Months.  God Speed my Friends!