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Spring training

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I have learned that you don't sit around the house all Winter then jump on the bike for a 2 to 3 hundred mile ride. You either won't finish or you won't enjoy it so for the past several years in advance of the Brown County (Now Tina Wasserott) rally I try to build up my saddle time in increments. Today was my first 100 plus mile day this year. actually about 150 miles. I headed out about 10:45 and before I had gotten five miles from home I came up on this fella walking down the road. This is the second snapper I have seen this week, I guess spring is in the air and they are looking for love!;)

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I stayed on rural roads like this one for the first part of the day.

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I eventually meandered my way around Northwest Henry County Tennessee until I was a few miles from Paris. At that point I decided it was a good day for a ferry ride so I headed down highway 69A toward Kentucky Lake. The ferry landing road is 10 miles of twists and turns that dead ends at the lake.

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Waiting as the ferry approaches.

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Crossing Kentucky lake

Once I departed the ferry it was just a few miles to Tennessee 232 which is the best twisty stretch this area has to offer. I still marvel at how effortlessly the SV handles that road compared to my old GSX1100G. Soon I was at Tennessee 79 only a few miles from Fort Donelson Battlefield National park on the Cumberland river so I spent a few minutes cruising through the park.

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A very good way to start
Spring Training".:)
 
Hi Scott,

What a nice day for a ride, with a ferry ride to boot! Thanks for the pictures.


All the best to you and yours,

Cliff
 
That's cool. I rode about 170 miles Saturday with 2 friends and saw 8 turtles. None were snappers though. The smallest adout the size of my fist, the largest about the size of a dinner plate. We rode through 5 counties, Butler, Lowndes, Dallas, Wilcox, and Monroe and even stopped at a ferry crossing, but at the wrong time to ride.

I gota get me a camera.

Ride safe,
Buddy
 
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