Spent a weekend recently with a bunch of other vets who are bikers. Sometimes that means lots of hours in the saddle, sometimes lots of hours sitting around a fire drinking beer. This time it was the latter, which is fine, but: the older I get, the more I've realized I can sit around drinking beer far more often than I can get out in nice weather in a new location and ride. Drinking beer is pretty consistent from place to place; new places often have new things to see. So in attempting to balance both, I drank beer late into the night, slept late, and rode in the afternoon. As the weather was marginal that day, The Wife and I stopped in at a large flea market by Lake Park, IA. And there were many interesting things to see.........Fine metal working:
Really ugly children:
State of the art shooting accessories:
Folk art (I couldn't fit these on the bike):
Interesting motorcycles:
And the people (I think) who ride them:
4 comments:
I love days like that. Glad you two had a good time.
Brigid-
We really enjoy them; the people-watching alone can be pretty interesting, along with the occasional odd firearm that shows up.
I just came back from the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne and I would recommend you hit that next Sept. It was VERY crowded, but lots of food choices, good music, and 19th century military camp reenactment --including cannon fire.
gardenserf,
sounds like road trip material.
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