Like Willie Nelson..On the road again!

[the Ferret]

Wow it's been 9 days since I was able to ride, but the weather terrorist said the next few days were going to be nice (relative term for you desert dwellers, so Cal guys and Aussies) so I was determined to get out.

Waited until the warmer part of the day, about 2:00 when the temp had climbed to 40 and pushed the ST out and warmed it up. As you can see the remnants of the last few days of snow is still very evident. A lot different than the pics from redbirds recent thread and makes me wish I sometimes lived someplace a little warmer

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Once I had 2 bars on the temp gauge I threw my thermos and an energy bar in the tank bag and took off

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I took the back way out to one of the state highways that runs north and south and runs a ridge down to the river. Once I hit the river I headed east until I came to the ferry crossing between Ripley Ohio and Augusta Kentucky. It would be here watching the ferry that I would drink my tea and eat my snack

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the wind was blowing pretty strong. As you can see both the take off ramp in Kentucky and the landing ramp in Ohio are directly iin front of my bike, but the ferry was being blown a good piece down river as it crossed

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check out the flags flying on the deck of the ferry and the angle it's on as it tries to go back up river to get to the Ohio landing

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Finally it makes it to the ramp and unloads it's one passenger, a pick up truck which paid $4 to cross the river rather than drive 40 miles around.

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Tea and snack consumed I fired the ST up and headed back west to home.

GREAT to be back riding again!