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Finally made it home safe and sound.

Apparently, there was a tornado in a town 18 miles north of Neosho called Joplin recently. I think there was some news coverage. (tongue in cheek) It appears that U Haul trucks in the Neosho area are few and far between. As in none. We ended up walking to a car dealership and asked if there were any car rental places around and as luck would have it Enterprise rent a car was right next door. We rented a car, drove from Neosho to KC, got my truck, drove BOTH vehicles back, Returned the rental, loaded up the scooter and just got home and got it unloaded.

Man what a couple of days.

Most of you know that I'm involved with the STO and go to Eureka Springs frequently. I found some land up there and bought it. It's out in the middle of the woods 3 miles down a gravel road, but it's GORGEOUS! It's all trees right now with a creek running through it. There are some pictures of some of the adjacent lots' buildings but my lot does not have any as of yet. Gonna clear out a place to set up a camp in the near future and will be staying out there for the rally this year. Look at all the natural beauty I will soon get to enjoy on a regular basis:

s496.photobucket.com/albums/rr321/Smorkle1/Land/?albumview=slideshow

I haven't driven my truck now in over a week. It's been chilly starts to the days this week, but riding the scoot in to work has been really nice. Usually I have to go to multiple buildings to work and carry tools and equipment with me, but been camped out at the same place for a week and really happy to be able to ride, ride, ride.

Today the girlfriend and I decided to take a ride. We've been planning on adding more states to our list so we looked up the closest point in Nebraska to us and discovered a little town called Rulo. There's nothing much there except a bar&grille and a historical marker, but it *IS* in Nebraska so that became our destination.

It was a sunny day but the upper 60's temperature was a tad chilly for an all day ride, but not unbearable. I mapped out the ride on Google maps and found some back roads to take. Unknown to us, one of the roads I chose was Hwy T and while it DID go through, it was not paved the entire length of the way. Also, there was a T in the road and we turned the wrong way, thereby leading us to a different highway, RA. That highway took us back up to I 29 where we found a cool little store.

This store we found was such an interesting place. It has everything: fireworks, liquor, convenience items, hunting supplies, camping supplies, and of course, antiques. If they ain't got it, you don't need it.

Here is a pic of the inside of the place:


After the store we rode through Oregon, MO and then on up to Rulo, NE where I took these three pics. In all three pics the scooter is sitting in the same spot and only I moved.





After all of this we rode back taking some differing back roads (and one not so back road) to Cameron, MO where we had a great dinner at Ma & Pa's Kettle Restaurant. They have some good down home food there and you should stop in if you're in the area.

All in all we had a great day riding and hopefully we'll get to take more trips to more states very soon!

I like the specs:



How much torque exactly is "FEEL IT FOR YOUSELF?"

I use one of these that I got at the STO rally from a vendor 2 yrs ago.

www.goldwingcountry.com/detail.cfm?model_ID=0&Category_ID=0&manufacturer_ID=16&product_ID=21048

Has worked well for my needs.