Riding Game

[wacky941]

Oh man if I didn't have to work, that one would be easy.
Galveston is only forty miles away and they've got a few ferry's there.

 

[Raid3n]

im near ferries, but no time to ride out to one haha. maybe later this weekend? =p

 

[Whitedog]

Ferries? Maybe tomorrow depending on which way we go. Will be back in SW and WC Wisconsin again! Two weeks in a row .

 

[koolaid_kid]

Ferries? Well, Broad Ripple is considered the artsie section of Indy...

 

[Redman]

Rode up to Muskegon.
Yep, happend to catch it when the ferry was docked in the harbor.

Its the bigger ship in background, behind the sailboats.
I suppose you cant really tell its a ferry, so thought I should see if I could get up closer.

Only had to go past/around two signs about "Blah blah Security Level" and one "do not enter".
Here can see it says "Lake Express". IS a cross Lake Michigan Ferry. From Muskegon to Millwalkee.

So this isnt a "pull-your-self-acrost-the-creek" ferry.
Is a twin hull cattermerran (or something like that) with water jet propulsion. Makes the 90 mile crossing in something like 2 1/2hours.

I Have been on-board once; at an open-house. Which may be only time I will ever be on it. Is an expensive way to avoid driving thru Chicago.

THis morning I got there as cars were driving out of it.
Sure saw a lot of Mercedes and Caddilacs and Audis and such. ANd then out came some Harleys.

(Although they are having a special this Sept & October. Motorcycles go for free. $95 per person one way.)

Here is a pic from thier website showing cars being loaded, as evidence of it being a car ferry.

SO on way back home, looking for something for the next tag.


MILITARY HELICOPTER ON DISPLAY.

THis one is a Vietnam Veterans Memorial, says U S Army.

I certaily meant no disrespect by riding right onto it (mostly I wanted to get to the sunny side.)

Except for deferment a couple years, and luck of the draw a couple years, I could have been a vietnam era draftee. (was 18 in 1970).

After running around takeing the pictures, I noticed the names on the various monuments. ....
I pushed bike out of there to the parking lot. ....

And walked back to look at the names some more.

>>>Later Note
Is a UH-1.
Number 958.
The local group of VVA that arranged for this found some of the actaull crew members.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM65K7_UH_1_Huey_helicopter_Final_Approach

http://www.casperplatoon.com/War%20Memorial%20Story.htm



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Here is a listing of hundreds of military helicopters on static display.

http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/armydisplayhelicopters.htm

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[lurch12_2000]

Military helicopter on display:

 

[lurch12_2000]

next tag....

next tag....

Not this, but thought it would be cool....

But this, since everyone has one nearby for an old man sport...a golf course:

 

[DanTheMan]

But, an OLD late '50s Fiat 500 on a pole or not would be too cool! Golf courses abound in my area, one every 15-20 miles, this won't be too hard to do once I finish putting the bike back together....

 

[Raid3n]

i will see if i can get it tomorrow night, hopefully the pictures wont be crap..

i wont be on my gs though, i'll be riding my friend's cbr900 lol

 

[lurch12_2000]

Come on, a golf course is about as easy as it gets for a tag.

 

[DanTheMan]

I was sure someone would have got the tag before now. I've been out on my bike a lot, but real busy with my show schedule (theatre stuff, it's usually real dark on the way home, and I'm rushing to get there), today, if someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll have the tag.

 

[DanTheMan]

OK, here's the golf course:

And the new tag is a sawmill, operating or not (sorry, all you desert dwellers, I thought about a gravel pit, but the sawmill showed up first)

 

[DanTheMan]

OK, if nobody can find a sawmill (c'mon, all you people in the logging states) in the next couple of days, I'll post an alternative tag.

 

[wouter]

Here is a old sawmill.

Next tag.

A fruit tree orchard.

 

[Redman]

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A fruit tree orchard.
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An orchard to grow fruit trees, and not an orchard to grow fruit....?

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[wouter]

An orchard to grow fruit trees, and not an orchard to grow fruit....?

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I did not know the english word for orchard so i used an online translator.

The orchard in the pic is to grow apples.
But if you can find an orchard to grow fruit trees that is ok for me.

 

[DanTheMan]

If no one else gets off their duff before Saturday, I will have to get the orchard picture (apple) when I ride to Duluth...

 

[Raid3n]

all the orchards are 250km+ from me haha. i'll wait for one a little more accessible haha. unless a picture of a mall called 'Old Orchard' works ;D

 

[koolaid_kid]

I have an apple orchard a few miles from me. I'll try to find time tomorrow, but I have been swamped lately and it's been difficult to get out. There is also a vinyard right down the road, but the 2 lane road it is on is too heavily traveled to be able to stop for a pic.

 

[bonanzadave]

Did you know a grove of nut trees is also called an orchard.