Pennyrick
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Earlier this week my wife and I traveled to Montgomery, Al as the folks at ISCI have figured a way to move the brake lever for an RT SE from the right side to the left. Penny has a leverage problem on the right side due to her bad arm, so this seemed like a worthwhile idea. A big shout out to Jeff Kranschuch at ICSI for getting this done for us and also adding a Fan Can to her Spyder.
We travel the back two lane roads wherever possible and tried to do so on this trip. I have given up on the Garmin 660 as it doesn't do back roads very well, plus it is impossible to read on a bright day (even with the hood I added) and the volume isn't loud enough for me to hear over the engine sound.
So we plotted things carefully from road to road, but got turned around somehow in one of the little Georgia towns and ended up going the wrong way on one of the pretty back roads. We discovered this after about a half hour and after asking instructions from a local person (CAUTION: do so at your own risk!), we ended up going further in the wrong direction. Thankfully we picked up an hour due to the time difference but we still got to ISCI and hour late.
Coming home I decided to take another back road route but misread the Road Atlas where it looked like Alabama 9 and 50 came together but we actually had to take two other roads to get to where we needed to be. Once again, after 45 minutes of wandering this time, we stopped and asked a local "where does highway 50 cross this road?" "You mean Alabama 50?", came the reply.... "never heard of it around here."
I dug out the Atlas and showed her the road in question and the response was, "I lived her all my life and never heard of that road.... I think that is (unitelligible) Plank road. You can't get there from here. You'll have to backtrack to 80, then to 63, then to 128, then to 280 and then you should see it."
So we turned a three hour ride into a five hour one. They were pretty roads but not much fun on the one they happened to be tarring that day.
The fact is most folks don't know the numbers of highways.
We travel the back two lane roads wherever possible and tried to do so on this trip. I have given up on the Garmin 660 as it doesn't do back roads very well, plus it is impossible to read on a bright day (even with the hood I added) and the volume isn't loud enough for me to hear over the engine sound.
So we plotted things carefully from road to road, but got turned around somehow in one of the little Georgia towns and ended up going the wrong way on one of the pretty back roads. We discovered this after about a half hour and after asking instructions from a local person (CAUTION: do so at your own risk!), we ended up going further in the wrong direction. Thankfully we picked up an hour due to the time difference but we still got to ISCI and hour late.
Coming home I decided to take another back road route but misread the Road Atlas where it looked like Alabama 9 and 50 came together but we actually had to take two other roads to get to where we needed to be. Once again, after 45 minutes of wandering this time, we stopped and asked a local "where does highway 50 cross this road?" "You mean Alabama 50?", came the reply.... "never heard of it around here."
I dug out the Atlas and showed her the road in question and the response was, "I lived her all my life and never heard of that road.... I think that is (unitelligible) Plank road. You can't get there from here. You'll have to backtrack to 80, then to 63, then to 128, then to 280 and then you should see it."
So we turned a three hour ride into a five hour one. They were pretty roads but not much fun on the one they happened to be tarring that day.
The fact is most folks don't know the numbers of highways.
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