Motorcycle ride

leaningright

leaningright

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The rain went away so I went for a short ride today. Does anyone else here ride for pleasure?

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leaningright said:
Yes. About 12 miles from my house. I love my little corner of Oklahoma.
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Have only been there twice. Most recent time was in 2003 when I flew into OKC and drove to Ft Sill to see the younger of my two sons graduate from bootcamp. Beautiful country. It was easy to picture it 200 years ago, the Cheyenne riding free across the land.
 
I rode a lot in my younger days. Then I had kids. Priorities changed.

Now I could ride again, but I see the way traffic is and wouldn't be able to enjoy it as much.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Have only been there twice. Most recent time was in 2003 when I flew into OKC and drove to Ft Sill to see the younger of my two sons graduate from bootcamp. Beautiful country. It was easy to picture it 200 years ago, the Cheyenne riding free across the land.
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I was born in Fort Sill ... Yes, I’m an Army brat. My dad was in for 27 years before he retired. We moved back to where he and my mom were born and raised when he retired and I was 8 years old. I’ve lived here in the SE ever since. We have ridges and almost mountains like the picture I snapped yesterday. Makes for good, scenic riding. In the fall around here cycles are everywhere. I meet a lot of great folks traveling through. It’s my favorite part of the state by far.

To your comment about the Cheyenne, I absolutely agree. Anytime I get an opportunity to hunt that part of our state (a person has to get drawn to hunt it most of the time ... unless you know a land owner) I do. It’s about a 5 hour drive to Lawton so I camp and hunt when I get to. It’s easy to imagine how things were a couple hundred years ago while staying there.
 
leaningright said:
I was born in Fort Sill ... Yes, I’m an Army brat. My dad was in for 27 years before he retired. We moved back to where he and my mom were born and raised when he retired and I was 8 years old. I’ve lived here in the SE ever since. We have ridges and almost mountains like the picture I snapped yesterday. Makes for good, scenic riding. In the fall around here cycles are everywhere. I meet a lot of great folks traveling through. It’s my favorite part of the state by far.
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I have only vague memories of OK from the first time we drove through. I was 16; we were on a family trip to visit the West and relatives and national parks and see that part of the country. We stopped in OKC for the night. It was June and blistering hot, even worse than STL. The year was 1969. The next morning we headed west, towards the panhandle of Texas. My mom and sister were not morning ppl like me and Dad, so I was up front riding shotgun and manning the maps while they snoozed in the back seat. An hour or so out I saw a dark cloud on the horizon, although the sky itself was clear. Asked Dad if that was a storm; he said that none were predicted. We started noticing that on-coming traffic had windshield wipers going like crazy to remove *something* from the windshields. As the cloud got closer we realized much to our horror that it was a cloud of locusts!! It was too late to do anything but plow through them. My mom and sister were screeching in the backseat. You literally could not see out of the windshield. We found an overpass and joined several other vehicles under it till the bugstorm passed. The next gas station was filled with ppl cleaning their cars off; we joined them. It was hideous and exhilarating all at once! Other than that, my memories of that part of OK were "flat, hot, boring." lol

To your comment about the Cheyenne, I absolutely agree. Anytime I get an opportunity to hunt that part of our state (a person has to get drawn to hunt it most of the time ... unless you know a land owner) I do. It’s about a 5 hour drive to Lawton so I camp and hunt when I get to. It’s easy to imagine how things were a couple hundred years ago while staying there.
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Isn't it? Imagine the wide open skies, the red earth, the ravines and crests and hills and valleys. You're a young one of 15 years, in a small war party looking to capture some horses from another tribe. You know the land so you use the ravines to hide in before and after your raid. You score some ponies, and ride home to your people across the wide-open plains, whooping in triumph! As we say here in the local language, mino bimaadiziwin... living life in a good way, as it should be. You love that connection to the past, don't you?
 
I rode until my son was born. Then I looked at the bike, looked at my son and decided that one of them had to go.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Have only been there twice. Most recent time was in 2003 when I flew into OKC and drove to Ft Sill to see the younger of my two sons graduate from bootcamp. Beautiful country. It was easy to picture it 200 years ago, the Cheyenne riding free across the land.
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Uhhh....I don't think that's quite exactly how history has recorded that event. LOL
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
How absolutely beautiful! Big sky country!
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I don't see the beauty in it unless it's the simplistic austerity of next to nothingness but sky. Quite frankly I've only driven through one State more boring to drive through than OK and that's KS. I've heard the Dakotas are god awful boring to drive through too.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I don't see the beauty in it unless it's the simplistic austerity of next to nothingness but sky. Quite frankly I've only driven through one State more boring to drive through than OK and that's KS. I've heard the Dakotas are god awful boring to drive through too.
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The Dakotas have a lot of scenic areas, but in other parts, unless you like canola fields, you won't get too much.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I don't see the beauty in it unless it's the simplistic austerity of next to nothingness but sky. Quite frankly I've only driven through one State more boring to drive through than OK and that's KS. I've heard the Dakotas are god awful boring to drive through too.
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Ohio is much more on the boring side. ;)
 
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