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The ride visited 6 area soldiers that lost their lives.
The bike on the left is Darwin (grey sweatshirt) & Kylee (pink sweatshirt)
This is the road going into Keithsburg (see end of blog for a reference to this road).
At each of the grave sites, they had doves that were released by family members
This was the first ride that Janet drove a bike in. At almost the end she had a little fender bender between herself and the pavement. She got a good bruise - but was mostly not hurt - but sore!
Darwin called me and asked me to the truck and trailer to Keithsburg, so the bike could be trailered back home & Janet could either ride in the truck, or with someone else. No problem - the truck and trailer were already ready. Just got Amie up from her nap & headed that way.......after all I had Garmin - right?!
Well that road at the top of this blog that leads into Keithsburg...I missed the turn onto it! So, Garmin did it's "re-calculating thing!" - it had me turn right at the next road....So I did!
The road went for a half a mile or so, then I came over a hill & the road turned to gravel....ok that's alright.....then I made a 90 degree turn left on this gravel road to find that the road was COMPLETELY covered with flood water!
So.......after trying unsuccessfully to back up (and not jack-knife the trailer) - I disconnected the trailer, turned the truck around, reconnected the trailer & got back on the main road....
The only other problem was that the cellular signals were almost non-existent! Darwin could only hear a little bit of what I was saying - he caught, "incident" and that was about it! And couldn't get ahold of me after that! Needless to say he was a little worried by the time Amie and I made it to Keithsburg!
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