where did you TAKE your Tenere today?

[Cycledude]

Where I live there are lots of gravel roads . I don’t know for sure but probably more miles of gravel roads than paved roads. I learned to ride and drive on mostly gravel roads. My first time driving a pickup truck I was about 12 years old and drove a 1953 Chevrolet in a field helping my Dad make fence for cow pasture .

 

[WJBertrand]

Do you have mostly asphalt everywhere in America?

I would say there is almost always a paved alternative/choice. My ride included only a few miles of very well graded dirt, a Goldwing would not have had any difficulty! Most mapping programs will default to paved roads but with my Zumo 550's avoidance of unpaved roads unchecked, it will sometimes route me over dirt/gravel roads based on fastest time or shortest distance priorities selected.

 

[Tombstone]

Number 2. Skirting Ida might be a problem.

 

[Sierra1]

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Just stay an extra day. She'll be north enough by then. Be safe.

 

[Sierra1]

Where I live there are lots of gravel roads . I don’t know for sure but probably more miles of gravel roads than paved roads. . . .

That's how it was once upon a time here. Now, there's no gravel roads left.

 

[Tombstone]

Just stay an extra day. She'll be north enough by then. Be safe.

Thats the plan.. I'll head west on Wednesday, hopefully the roads will be clean n green by then.

 

[Sierra1]

Thats the plan.. I'll head west on Wednesday, hopefully the roads will be clean n green by then.

I think sticking to the interstate(s) might be the smart move, until you get past the debris field. Those will get cleared firsts.

 

[Ss1]

Maybe someday I'll come to America and ride along your good roads

 

[holligl]

Yesterdays meandering ride from SE Iowa home to Illinois via Galesburg and the Illinois river. Turned a 4 hr commute into a 8 hr joy ride.

Random gravel road in Iowa

A lake community in East Galesburg

Snake Den Road. Looked like wet clay. I took a pass with my worn out tires and luggage. I will be back!

Toulon town square

One of my favorite little shaded trails. This gem is actually a stones throw from the I180 interstate, but you can't even see it.

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[eemsreno]

Rode down into Missouri this morning.

Plevna, Mo.


Was having a great ride till I rode down a lane that ended at the Salt River.
I noticed a dead kitten in the parking area, I got out my coffee and then noticed another kitten in the grass. I walked over to it and nudged it with the toe of my boot. It couldn't even lift it's head off the ground it was shivering so bad. So I picked it up and put it in the sun while I drank some coffee.
After a while it wouldn't leave me alone.


Then I heard another kitten cry so over in the tall weeds I found him, he was badly hurt. I packed them both into a back pack and laid them on top of my tank bag. I stopped first at a sheriffs office and he didn't want anything to do with them, He said just take them back to the river. So I spotted a Vet clinic and they took them. She said they could find a home for the one but didn't sound to promising for helping the hurt one.

 

[cyclemike4]

I couldn't have left those kittens either.

 

[Sierra1]

The older I get, the more I like animals; dogs are my favorite. They don't lie, cheat, or steal . . . . for the sole purpose of lyin' cheatin', or stealin'.

 

[kingfisher]

I hope that the old saying that what goes around, comes around, pertains to someone that could dump animals out like trash.

 

[eemsreno]

I hope that the old saying that what goes around, comes around, pertains to someone that could dump animals out like trash.

I never told much about the hurt kitten for a reason. I was pretty ugly , someone is a sickO

 

[Sierra1]

I never told much about the hurt kitten for a reason. I was pretty ugly , someone is a sickO

If I ever catch somebody in the act of doing something like that, I'm gonna need y'all's help for bail money.

 

[Sierra1]

I hope that the old saying that what goes around, comes around, pertains to someone that could dump animals out like trash.

With a little eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth for good measure.

 

[pilleway]

Hi to all!
Today I had my fist official ride with my son Mikel, we had a 100 Mi ride, from Toluca to Mexico City (had breakfast and headed back to Toluca, had some rain in the way back but no incidents during the ride!
This picture is arriving at home. GREAT experience sharing it with my son! he did a lot of cross now he is getting in to some road and off road with the Tenere XT660Z

Great weekend to all.

 

[Strummer]

Unfortunately the pictures don't do justice to the places...

 

[Sierra1]

Unfortunately the pictures don't do justice to the places...
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The Grand Canyon, other places like this are the same way. Y'a just gotta be there.

 

[Strummer]

The Grand Canyon, other places like this are the same way. Y'a just gotta be there.

The Grand Canyon is one of the places I can only dream of...
Who knows?
Maybe once I will be retired...