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Thanks Wayne and Rick, nice meeting you guys today. Good seeing you again Tim, thanks for meeting up for lunch. It was damn good...I haven't eaten anything 'unhealthy' since the end of Jan so it was a real treat. I'm about to head to the gym before they close to cleanse my bacon cheeseburger sin today.

Thanks for meeting me for lunch fellas. Good meeting you Wayne and good seeing you again Joe. I'm still full from that burger.

FYI, to embed videos here from YouTube just post the url it automagically embeds them. But you need the long url, not the mobile url's.

Lol, well that sure narrows it down.

I decided to head to Thiel's Wheels Saturday for their open house, since I bought my Bonne there recently. They're Harley only now, but they seemed like decent folk otherwise... Taking 315 to 23 seemed really boring, so I mapped the route with the "Avoid Highways" option on Google Maps on my home computer, and tried to memorize the first half, thinking I would check halfway and get the rest. I couldn't find a way to use the "Avoid Highways" option on the phone app. I also mapped using the Navigator app with a downloaded map of Ohio, since I have T-Mobile and therefore have lousy coverage outside 270. And off I went. I went up 33, which is maybe a mile from my house, out of the Grandview area, which just seemed to become 257 without me doing anything. Great so far. Then Home Road briefly to Section Line Road. Still no problem. (Nothing terribly eventful on the 33/257 section to mention, but not bad. Section Line was mostly straight north also.) Then I thought I needed to turn right on 37 to get to 203. Which I did. Which was wrong. I realized that after a few miles on 37, when I wound up in what turns out to be far western Delaware. So I got that sorted, turned around, and went back to the intersection of my mistake and headed north on 203. 203. I really liked 203. It had a mix of straight roads through farmland, through Prospect, beside the river, and some sweeping turns. There was the occasional tighter turn, but not much of that. Basically a pretty nice, fairly high speed run north, and all of the traffic was going the other way. And smooth. Very nice. I was on 203 for so long that I started thinking I had missed a turn somewhere, so I stopped to check. I don't know if it really said this, but I thought my GPS app showed me going left on 309 next at Big Island. (BTW - who knew there was a Big Island Ohio?) Which I did. Which was wrong. 309 was flat out straight line farm land. Not very exciting, but very fast. Unfortunately for me, I was going fast in the wrong direction. So I roll into Kenton, wondering "Where the hell in Kenton?". I try to get my bearings on my phone and once again fail. And now I need fuel. The guy at the gas station tells me to take 53 to get to "Upper", so I do. Eventually I wind up in a town called Forest. (Who knew we had a Forest Ohio also?) I checked my GPS and took 37 toward 30. Now I'm on track, right? I get to 30 and head East. Going 80, passing semis, now I'm on my way. I've seen 30 from 23, south of "Upper", so I'm sure that I need to go north and I'll be there in no time. So I do. Which was wrong. And I continue north for a while. 10 miles or so. Then I start seeing signs for Findlay and Toledo, but none for "Upper". Doesn't seem right. So I pull over on some township road and try again to check my GPS, and again fail to figure out where the hell I am. But I'm pretty sure I'm too far north. Though I can't figure out why. So I head back south. For the first time on the entire trip, I'm now pissed. I KNOW that the 23/30 intersection is south of my destination, yet I turned north on 23 and was instantly recruited by the Toledo Mud Hens. I don't know where I am in relation to "Upper". I still don't know where Kenton is, but I know that I was there 45 minutes ago. And it's 4:02. Thiel's closed at 4:00. Time to turn around and head south on 23. Pretty soon I see signs for "Upper". Turns out that I was RIGHT THERE when I got on 23, but should have gone south. I had no idea that 30 used 23 as a junction around "Upper". Now I do. To shorten this already long story a bit: I got to Thiel's. They were still open, with tons of people and Harleys in the lot. (My Bonne was, of course, the best looking bike there.) I stayed about 15 minutes, then took 23 and 315 home. Roughly an hour and 15 minutes, including misguided attempts to stop for food in Waldo and Delaware. 190 miles. Most of an afternoon. (I left home at 1:20 and returned at 6:00. Lots of stops to try and figure out where the hell I was.) My main takeaways: Buy a paper map of Ohio. I definitely recommend riding 203. Nothing terribly exciting, but it's a pretty nice road. If you're going somewhere around there, give it a try. If you don't have a timeline, enjoy getting lost. I didn't mind taking a wrong turn. What bothered me was that I couldn't figure it out. Wayne

Damn, man. Traumatic doesn't even begin to cover your experience. Hopefully you keep improving more and more. Here's to hope that you eventually get to a point in life that's as near to normal as possible; not only for your sake, but also for that of your child's. Chin up sir, and trudge on -- you've survived what a lot of others would not.

It was great meeting you both today. Hope you enjoyed the ride home.

might also stop in. Bored but not going to waste the day. I'm going somewhere. Need the miles to feel better. Zoom zoom ahhh..

I have 2 BMW's and a Mercedes and you are giving me shit because I have one beater car?

Not really from the NE, but I may ride up. The weather looks good.

Jesus, maybe I should rent a karaoke machine.

TMI

Ok fine. I hereby declare a pants off dance off at the meat n greet. You filthy sodomites can get just as AIDSy as you want, I have a whole coffee can full of military grade grease for you to use while you peg each other in the turdcutter. Any of you Orientals look at my dogs and the BBQ in the same glance and it's hammer time, and I have a whole drawer full of hammers. I think it's gonna be a good time.

There were zero fucks given that day by the mods.

indeed, i never imagined someone with such profane vulgar perverse dick fingers to be such a nancy bitch face what with the rules about pants. SHAME

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