Fall Colors Ride 2019 was great! The roads, the weather and the fun were as good or better than they have ever been. While there was a little scattered rain on Saturday, maybe only Steve and Rich Grabowski along with Kevin McDaniel were the only ones to get truly wet. Attendance was light, however, especially Saturday evening when the hotel was booked up for a concert....... I rode 1400 miles and none of that was on straight roads for long. On Thursday John Boyd and I rode from Columbus on state routes and county roads both new and familiar to us. We arrived in plenty of time for the Thursday group dinner at Food and Friends. On a sunny Friday John, Jim Goody and I rode Fall Colors Route 4, 301 miles of curves that included 60 miles of the BRP sandwiched between very satisfying series of twisty roads.....Saturday was ghost town day. Jon Campbell and Michael Wade joined us on a visit to Thurmond which took us through Prince and past Winona, Sewell and Nuttallburg. Saturday evening it seemed that everyone was at Ruby Tuesday for dinner where Mike Molnar and Jon entertained our table with tales of run-ins with airport security..... On Sunday Jim and I made a long day of the ride home. We went through the Monongahela National Forest, Smoke Hole Canyon, and across the North Woods-like scenery near Davis, WV before slipping into Maryland and finally going via the curves to Cambridge, OH. There we split up and headed home...... I offer a big “Thank you” to Syd Mayes for organizing and Doug Pippin for creating routes. It was a weekend I'll never forget.
