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Riding in Eastern Wa…

[Note: No politics... just riding]

It looked like it was time for a solo ride and explore some of the familiar and not so familiar. And even some of the beauty and grotesque.

Familiar… Kahlotus Highway. Not too bad but LOTS of cops. They were out in full force. Just down the road from here I came across one. Fortunately for me, I had just stopped and put a layer on under the jacket. In the process, I left my saddle bag open and dumped the contents as I took off. I had just discovered this and was slowing to turn around and retrieve my shit when a Franklin Co. Sheriff went by.

Just past the Lyons Ferry Twisties. No po po… not a soul on the road.

The grotesque… I saw more dead cows than ever. This was the second of four. Kind of creepy with cows just keeling over and dying. I could have turned this ride into the roadkill photo adventure with all the other dead critters I saw. I did rescue a gopher snake from certain death. He was warming up in the middle of the road so I threw him in the saddlebag and took him to safer territory (sorry, I forgot to get pics… the snake turned into a childs pet when I got to my destination).

Past Starbuck and up Tucannon road I came across these horses. About ten of them in all running back to the barn. Did someone ring the dinner bell? They were in a hurry.

Met up with some friends at Tucannon. This is Gunny, the stick compulsively obsessed yellow lab. She is paying no attention to the fish. What she really wants is to have that pole thrown out in the lake to fetch and she can’t understand why they continually try and fake her out over and over with each cast.

I hadn’t seen the damage from the School Fire so I took a ride up the road to check it out. It’s like another planet. Pretty devastating.

These lucky butterflies were into something on the ground… not sure what but better there than among the gazzillion or so I wiped off my helmet’s face shield.  I worry about Karma…

The Unfamiliar… The ride home took me on what I thought was going to be the old road down to Clyde (near Lower Monumental Dam)… Um… they got CONCRETE ROADS!!! They want to chip seal my street and way out in the middle of nowhere… concrete. Well, since no one was out there lets just say the pace got “spirited”. Great scenery as well.

Nearing the end of anything fun and close to US 12 traffic. One last shot.