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| North Snohomish County Mystery Ride 02/14/09 This was the ultimate mystery ride to date. I have been riding Snohomish County for years and thought I pretty much knew every good motorcycle road around. However once we got out of town Fred took an unknown left hand turn in the Machias area. So we were off on a ride of discovery and this was to be one of many virgin (for me) roads. We were a group of around 7 riders. Bill was getting off to a rocky start at Old Strokers with some goofy issues. Rather then have us wait he had sent us off and would meet us at the lunch stop in Edison. The group got a little strung out as we raced along the nice country road. We regrouped and the first intersection and headed off. |
| I was the second rider in the group and had been checking behind me. We seemed to be together at the first intersection. I then enjoyed the next mile or so and when I looked behind I only saw one rider. We pulled over to wait and no one ever came. In addition the 3 rider went down the street. We thought he was doing a long turn area so thought he may have gone by his place which was what he did. Fred and I backtracked but did not find our riders. They had gotten behind some slow traffic and missed the turn. Larry has his cell interfaced to his Garmin so we were able to call them and were able to reconnect a few miles down the road. No one got lost the rest of the ride. We reconnected with Bill at the Edison Cafe. Had a great lunch there. After lunch several riders headed straight back with some Valentine day dates. The rest of us continued they many more back roads. This was a busy eat out day as we had just had lunch and also had a PNW Road Riders dinner the same day in Kirkland. It was 1:30 or so now. So Fred did a great job of guiding us thru Snohomish back roads to arrive at the Kirkland dinner meet at 5:40 or so. I was worried that with a kind of late lunch that I would not be hungry for dinner. But after several hours of back road riding that was not a problem. Total miles for the day was around 230. |