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| Remember what I said about the road starting off pretty straight? Well it does even after that first 90 degree turn. Patience. Which brings me to a friend I met a few years ago. Aldo was stuck in the middle of the road with something on his shell. I couldn't take his situation so I stopped. I didn't know what it was so I got a stick and knocked it off. It was a leech. A damn leech. I haven't seen one of those things since the movie, African Queen with Humphry Bogart. I ran over it. Could it have bored through and killed poor Aldo? Mute question. I picked Aldo up and put him in the grass. I was told Aldo could have bitten me. He didn't. I have seen Aldo many times out on the road and I've helped him along when I could. A surprising number of bikers have reported doing the same. Aldo must get around. |
| Add that flower/weed to the list of strange stuff on 104. When a road is straight you can sightsee a little. The ditches tend to stay in the same place. Although sightseeing and motorcycle riding are not recommended, no matter what the magazines and tour guides say. Oops, that's me. Look right, steer left. Go boom. |
| All this talk about "flat" and what shows up, directions to a mountain. Naturally I had to pursue. I really wanted to continue the "r"under the "iump" and end it crossing the "H" at the end of Triumph. Triumph motorcyle riders, or once riders, know what the heck I'm talking about. No one else in the world does. |
| In search of the Baptist church on the mountain, I passed a field that was very dry. I'd never seen the soil so light. It seemed bleached. I've attemped to simulate the color in the page background. Everything on this site has a reason. If the reasons don't "slap you in the face", don't worry about it. If they do "slap you in the face", worry. |
| It is so flat out here a rise of three and half steps constitutes a mountain. The church surely was on higher ground. |
| The guy that restored the John Deer rice tractor is not only an artist but a hero. It marks for me the beginning of Rice Country going out 104. |
| Yep, Cows. |
| Yep, Horses. |
| Taken a few years back. I had to stop and marvel at the colors this place produces. Shall we go? |