ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER TRIP

Each year since 2009 my friend Cherif and I have spent a few weeks each summer traversing different parts of America on our Harleys. Usually, our trips are a bit earlier but this year Cherif had some business and I have a new grand daughter, born July 16,  that I wanted to get to know a bit before I left for a few weeks.

Our plan this year is to do a section of U.S. route 50 between Cincinnati and Pueblo Co. Route 50 is one of the early cross country roads and it runs from Baltimore to Sacramento and we have talked about riding it for several years. At Pueblo, we will head south to Santa Fe, NM and Route 66. We did Route 66 in it's entirety in 2009 and have wanted to revisit this iconic route to see some of the things we missed back then.

To that end, I left Baldwinsville this morning and headed west. 535 miles and 10 hours later I arrived in Cincinnati.  It was all highways, routes 90 and 71and was a great day to ride, cool this morning and hot at the end of the day.

So, tomorrow we will head west and really don't know what this route will present. Parts of route 50 are called "The loneliest road in America". I guess we will find out.

Just after I got on 90 this morning, I was greeted by a double rainbow. MAybe a good omen for this trip?