A December ride

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Took a 108 mile ride out in the country today, out thru Brown and Adams counties to the east of my home county of Clermont. Things sure look different when the leaves are down and the crops are in. Rode east through the curves out along the hills and then dropped south down to the river Terminus Of Zane's Trace in Aberdeen Ohio, and then back west along the banks of the Ohio



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane%27s_Trace



I sat there for a few minutes, sipped some hot tea from my thermos which felt good to ward off the winter cold, and enjoyed the Simon Kenton Memorial suspension bridge built in 1931 that runs from Aberdeen, Ohio to Maysville, Kentucky. They recently built a new bridge about 3 miles west of this one, but the old bridge is still in use.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kent...ial_Bridge

The river is still used for barge traffic hauling all kinds of things. Always been a major trade artery for hundreds of years.



There are many little towns along the river.. Most were viable at one time, but are basically ghost towns today. Go thru this one, Higgensport too fast, and you don't have to worry about getting pulled over, they just mail you a ticket



about 25 miles west and you find this little sign as you enter my little town of New Richmond



100 yards further (and after a speed reduction of 5 mph), you see this



Gotcha. $ Cha Ching $

Of course according to the Mayor they are only trying to prevent accidents and save lives. Along this road we get a lot of traffic from Kentucky and West Virginia

Great ride. Had the roads virtually to myself all day.

That's the way to do it Ferret. Glad you are in the spirit again.

RE cameras: Yeah, they are making a comeback. I guess after a couple of decades the technology is far more advanced to "keep people honest".