Men's Fall Trip... pics added complete

[the Ferret]

Cormanus, you are a magician

Day 5 in the books. Tomorrow we head home. Been a great trip. Today we did one new loop and another loop which included parts of two other loops we had already done. Temp started out in the low 60s and made it into the low 80s. Just beautiful weather all week. We even saw a rainbow around the SUN on the way back from dinner. None of us had ever seen that before.

Loop 1 the Blue Loop on my map. We headed west on 956 from Berea to 595. West on 595 to 52. 52 west to 34 and 34 west to 150 at Danville. 150 west to 68 at Perryville. 68 is a Kentucky Scenic Highway and we took it north thru some beautiful horse farms to Nicholasville, where we pocked up 169 south. Not shown on my map we were blasting down curvy 169 when we came to the Kentucky river. There was no bridge. We had to ferry our bikes across on a small paddle wheeler ferry. There was no charge ( it was paid for by the county) and really cool. On the other side we picked up a very curvy 169 and took it into Richmond, where we picked up 25 south down to 956 east back to the hotel. This loop covered 125 miles.

Loop 2. For dinner we decided on the Right Place Restaurant in Irvine. we decided to take the curviest way there. 21 east to 421. 421 south to McKee. There we picked up 89 north and weaved our way to Irvine for dinner. After dinner we took 52 west to Richmond and 25 south to 956 east back to the hotel. This loop covered 95 miles.

Total for the day 220 miles

Total for the trip so far 1119 miles.