DAY 13 SATURDAY

Beautiful morning drive across West Virginia on US 50 into Ohio then north turning towards Michigan. After lunch headed north west on state route 250 and immediately found ourselves in Amish country. Passed a dozen or more horse drawn wagons in both directions along with stores selling all kinds of handmade items, this is truly beautiful country. At one stop sign an Amish man and a boy of about ten were selling baskets. The young boy was staring at us with a very solemn expression, I gave him a smile and a wave, and he broke into a big grin and started waving back. I think kids are kids were ever you go, never met a boy that didn’t like a Harley.

Shortly found ourselves in rolling hills and large farms with a rapidly approaching storm, in an unusual move stopped to dig out rain gear before it actually started raining, what a good idea. The sky turned black as night and just opened up there was no building, overpass or any form of shelter in any direction. The good news was that we had the road to ourselves as all the cars had pulled to the side and turned on their flashers since they couldn’t see to drive. We couldn’t see either but after the fog yesterday didn’t consider that an impediment to forward progress. It was like driving in a car wash and it cleaned all the dead bugs off the front of the bike.

The rain lightened and we stopped to congratulate each other on still being upright and on the road before continuing, soon in another rain but this time light with everybody dressed for it. Eventually found a motel just south of Toledo Ohio about ten miles from Lake Erie. Once we saw the sign, restaurant, lounge, Jacuzzi, on premises we know we were done for the day.

If you have any friends getting ready to buy a motorcycle that live back in this area two good gifts would be a rain suit and a bottle of bug remover.