Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, etc

[pdedse]

Awesome ride report and pictures, pdedse!

Glad you like it, Culyjoe!

pdedse, this continues to be a great report. Thank you.

Indeed it continues to interest me so much that I've done the best I can to make a rough plot of your route. It was a really serious ride covering a goodly chunk of the northern United States:



The map I drew for this picture is [url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19zRIuvMHQJfv8SndvbT2Akgjdpc]here. There will be much of the detail that is wrong, but it gave me a good idea of the magnitude of the endeavour.

Wow! Somebody has been paying attention to the route! That's an awesome map, and you're pretty darn close with the details.

1. At The Dalles, OR, crossed the Columbia River on 197 to 14, on the Washington side, and then continued on 14 to 82 north thru Kennewick

2. In Wyoming, after Cody, stayed on 14 to Greybull, then 20 south to Worland (missed that turn you show, but I wanted to take it), then 16 to Ten Sleep

3. Right in Rapid City, SD, got on 90 west to Wall where I veered south on 240 and began the Badlands there; from that point the map looks good to Champaign, Ill

4. Return trip, after Champaign...in Springfield, Ill I stayed on 72 west till 54 west and took 54 thru Pittsfield and Atlas towards the Miss. River, avoiding St. Louis completely. Stayed on 54 west as it meanders south by southwest thru Jeff City and Lake Ozark. At Camdenton took 5 south to 44 and then to Springfield, MO

5. In Kansas, south of Topeka, when I was on 169 north, veered west at Colony on to 58 west to 75 north to 31west to Osage City, then 56 north thru Auburn and Topeka.

6. After Topeka, when I veered off 70 and went north to Wamego, I stayed on 24 into Manhattan and then continued on 24 west to to 281 to Smith Center on 36. Then stayed on 36 (avoiding 70) all the way into into Oberlin where you show me meeting up with 36--I was already on it.

From there, you're spot on! Incredible job in that I wasn't always specific. Thanks so much for doing that because I'm sure in another week I would begin to forget some details.
My main purpose for this trip was to visit my mom and sibs and to spend time with them and not have to worry about whether my kids were bored. It was a wonderful week with my 91 year ol' momma. She was a professional seamstress for years and still has her shop. On her right you can see my mc pants which she is about to mend.

If she were into mc's her shop would be the envy of many of us.

Three generations: my 25 year old neice, mom and me


There's the 8 of us sibs, back in 1967 or 68? Wanna guess which one I am?

And how do they all look as of a year or two ago? (I'm not in this one)


Selfie of Mom, sis Jo, and me

I don't understand how an apple orchard in Illinois gets away with having a Dorothy / Oz theme when that's exclusive to Kansas, but we couldn't pass up the photo.