My goal today was to ride at least 80 miles and see my odometer turn over to 15,000 miles. To accomplish that I decided to ride to Fromberg, about 40 miles away and do some sketching. I’ve been there before and sketched up an old abandoned garage in May of 2021:
The ride there was great. It was getting warm but the light traffic made it relaxing. I cruised the downtown main street, the whole block of it, several times looking for an interesting view and some shade to sit it. I decided to park in from of a blacksmith’s shop, near their town hall and sketch the north side of the street. I set up my stool, got out my drawing tools and go after it.
I think I was there for a little over an hour. Time really does fly when doing this type of sketching. I started with a layout of shapes in graphite and then switched to pen and added the details. I am using my sketchbook in a 2-page wide angle configuration and plan to get maybe 5 building is this drawing. I needed to get up and move around, plus I was losing the shade, so I decided to call it quits and come back and continue in the same spot another day. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
I’ll be adding watercolor to it later.
While sitting there a couple tourists rode by on a Honda ST-1100. It was the first bike I’d heard in a while, other than mine, that wasn’t a V-Twin. Here’s my bike on the street there:
I took my usual return trip back to Billings, Hwy 212 to Theil Road (River Road), to Duck Creek, to Story Road, and then up Shilo through the roundabouts. When I got to King Ave. my odometer said to pull over for a photo:
Yep, I’ve ridden 15,000 miles since I got the bike in April 2021. That’s over 1,000 miles per month which, of course, is probably higher than that since I really didn’t get out much during our winter.
I got home and had logged 84.7 miles for the day.
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