With my recent flat tire patched and pretty nice weather, it was a good day to get out and log some miles. My friend, Keith, and I met up at 10am with a briskness in the air: 46°F. We rode west, taking to new roundabout at 62nd and Rimrock and then south to Grand. It was then then usual west board escape route from Billings to Laurel, then to Park City and Columbus. We turned north on Hwy 306, Rapelje Road, to the village of Rapelje.
That road is pretty nice for the first part with sweeping curves through some hills and then it tops out on the prairie and runs pretty straight the rest of the way. There was a pretty strong crosswind out of the west but nothing too much to deal with.
I didn’t take many photos of the ride today but the ones I shot previously, last March, are here.
I did bring one of my film cam areas and did some shots but those will have to wait until I get into my darkroom to develop them a bit later. Here are the few I did shoot with my phone.
We went back to Columbus and grabbed Hwy 421 to Joliet. I’ve ridden this many times, as recently as last December, and there are some photos of that ride here.
As we rode back the temperature went up to about 68°F and I was thinking to shedding a layer but we continued on to Laurel where we made our final plan. Keith wanted to hit a gas station on the way back and I decided to wait on that since I wanted to run more of the regular gas out before filling up with the winter, non-alcohol blend so we separated at Shilo and Grand and I headed for home.
An interesting thing occurred with the bike today. When I left on my big trip last May, I zeroed out both of the trip counters. The upper one I’d reset every day and I let the lower one just add up the days. I never reset it and today it got to 10,000 miles and it reset to zero.
It was great ride today and I look forward to a few more before winter arrives and I have to put it away.