I did a quick ride to the south last weekend. I left Thursday afternoon around 2pm and was home by 10:30am Sunday morning. Total of 2007 miles over the weekend.
here is a link to the pics and the captions are under the pictures.
National Parks
Every ride has a funny story - this one did not fail me either......
Here's my funny story of the trip.....First let me start by saying, if you ever have the chance to go to Savannah, GA, then GO - it's a pretty town!!
Okay - so I'm riding through town and it's a little warm - high 70's and I had to go through downtown Savannah - very tight streets, traffic and I'm warm - so I have my face shield open and I'm enjoying the breeze. As you leave town the speed limit increases just a little and so does the traffic; I come to a stop light and I'm behind this HUGE pickup truck. In order to keep with the traffic, I'm pretty tight with this guy as we round the corner and head out of town. All of a sudden, he hits his brakes - not hard but enough and I do too, not hard because all of a sudden I'm WET!!!! I mean I'm SOAKED!!!! as we turn, the road goes from 2lanes to 3 lanes of traffic (on my side) I'm on the far left side and for whatever reason there is a TON of water on the road!! The guy beside me, moves over and he's still in water (meaning the water is 2 1/2 lanes wide). I don't know if a water main broke or what because the water was ONLY on our side o f the road! I don't change lanes, because I'm not sure what is going on or how long the water has been there, so I don't know if the pavement below the water is slick with grime or not. So I figure my best bet is to hold on and try to just maintain the bike behind the truck. I could tell (at least I think) that he felt really bad because he had no reason to slow down except for the fact that he was throwing water ALL OVER ME behind him!! I'm telling you, I laughed so hard! I'm sure the people beside me, in front of me and behind me got a good laugh! It was so surprising. I licked my lips and realized that my face shield was still open and my face was soaked with road water - it was salty too. My pants were soaked (although water proof) I could feel the coldness of the water, my bike was covered with grime. OMG, I just couldn't help but to laugh. I still laugh about it today, Talk about Americas Funniest videos. 2 hours later, I came back through the same spot and noticed that there were white city trucks parked right where I rode through so I had to pull over and take a picture. There were a few guys on the side of the road (obviously owners of the city trucks) assessing the situation and I told one of them that I rode through that earlier and I HAD to get a picture. He kind of chuckled as I'm sure he could imagine the humor too! So when you see the pictures of the water - take a chuckle with me and realize that a lot of traffic and time has gone by in those pics, the water was much higher and covering more of the road when I went through.
that's my silly story of the ride. I love adventures! Anytime something goes wrong, as long as it isn't anything damaging, I just laugh and think "Whoohoooo what an adventure I'm having today!!"