Let me start out by saying today had to be on of the top 5 day's in my riding career. The weather was perfect mid 70's no humidity and I was in the zone. Everything was flowing it was beautiful.
I live about 20 minutes East of Newark Ohio, I left at 9:30 and headed down I-70 East to RT 800 south. Route 800 just south of I-70 is full of fast sweeping turns, it runs thru a hand full of towns but it is still a great road. As you get further south on RT 800, near the Ohio river the road tightens up and the turns come fast and furious, there are a lot of 15MPH and 25MPH turns the last 10 miles before you hit the river..
I crossed the Ohio via ferry boat and headed for RT 18 in WV...
There was a few cars and truck on RT18 for the first 10 miles or so which surprised me. As I made my way further down RT18 the traffic thinned out and was almost non existent. Route 18 is a nice road tight turns good surface and fun. I road RT18 down to RT 50 which is a 4 lane un divided highway. There were some nice long sweepers, I was cruising at 85MPH and it was real nice. The road follows the valley so I was surrounded by mountains the whole ride on RT50 which was about 30-35 miles.
I turned off on RT20. Route 20 if a freaking GREAT road a good combo of sweepers and some tight turns. I rode RT20 for 40 or so miles. I was really in the zone and no traffic at all. Route 20 took me back to the Ohio river where I cross over and then jumped on RT536 (my favorite road) and to my luck not a car in site. I took 536 north to RT78 West, from 78 west I jumped on I-77 north for a few miles then I-70 West back home.
The total mileage for today was 339
Total ride time 6.5 hours
What a GREAT day....
Pictures to follow.
Oh yeah.... I only saw one LEO all day..........
