Weekend plans

[Dave]

Oh Alan, do you have any weekend plans. This weekend is our favorite one of the summer, STP. The Seattle to Portland bike ride. Just 14,000 very respectful bike riders casually touring the country side. I did the math. If there are two bikes in every 15 feet it is solid line of bikes for just under 20 miles. And people wonder why my daughter had to wait 45 minutes for an opening to get out of her driveway a few years ago. All the people on the route either plan to stay home, leave for the weekend, or plan to be stressed out.

 

[Alan]

Ahh, the weekend from he!!. I was thinking about the stp yesterday, well good weekend to stay home or see what's happening on the backr roads. Might just sit by the hwy and watch drivers get mad trying to make a left turn off the hwy through the line of bikes.

 

[Jogeephus]

Why not organize a Black Lives Matter rally and clog up the roads so even the cyclists can't pass. BTW - please film the riot if you do. Nothing could be more violent than watching two liberal factions fighting.

 

[Dave]

Why not organize a Black Lives Matter rally and clog up the roads so even the cyclists can't pass. BTW - please film the riot if you do. Nothing could be more violent than watching two liberal factions fighting.

Other than a BLM rally in Seattle or Portland there just isn't much chance of that happening. In the area between those two cities you can a month without seeing one black person. Not that people are hostile toward them or anything. They just aren't here. Maybe we could start an Indian uprising or get the Mexicans to protest something. We have some of both of those groups. But the Indians have their casinos. All the Mexicans here seem to be the hard working variety. So I don't think either of those groups want to rock the boat.

 

[Anonymous]

:hide: MLM MAY BE LISTENING :hide:
we kinda took care of the indian thing a long time ago !

 

[Dave]

we kinda took care of the indian thing a long time ago !

Not these Indians here. There is a story that back in the Indian wars in 1853 there was an Indian banging on the fort gate. He wanted in. The settlers refused saying that there were wild Indians coming. He replied, "I know that is why I want in." These Indians here weren't very war like so they got beat up by all the surrounding tribes. For generations all the brave men were killed and all the pretty women kidnaped. They became best of buddies with the first white man to show up.

 

[Alan]

we kinda took care of the indian thing a long time ago !

Not these Indians here. There is a story that back in the Indian wars in 1853 there was an Indian banging on the fort gate. He wanted in. The settlers refused saying that there were wild Indians coming. He replied, "I know that is why I want in." These Indians here weren't very war like so they got beat up by all the surrounding tribes. For generations all the brave men were killed and all the pretty women kidnaped. They became best of buddies with the first white man to show up.

Dave has that right, if you have ever read the Lewis and Clark journals you would know the Indians out here, or on the Pacific coast would rather "make love not war".... 160 years before their time..... Also all you needed was a piece of ribbon for a warm night.

 

[Jogeephus]

Well so much for that idea. Would be neat to watch though I think. Sort of like Godzilla versus King Kong.

 

[js1234]

We own a ranch that is now in a very popular area with cyclists. One of my purest joys in life is driving a few hundred head of cattle a few miles up the blacktop midmorning on a Saturday.

 

[Anonymous]

always thought if i didnt already have kids an grandkid i would have moved that way a long time ago yea did read lewis an clark a long time ago !

 

[Jogeephus]

I see that all the cyclists made it home. (This is especially for you Alan. Hope it makes your week)

 

[Alan]

I see that all the cyclists made it home. (This is especially for you Alan. Hope it makes your week)

One can only hope. :lol: :lol: :lol: I had to go into town once today and decided to take the Hwy just to see. 15 mile trip each way, I only had to lay on the horn once for idiots riding four abreast on the hwy. there was however an ambulance count of three during the trip to and from, two looked like mostly skinned knees... Yea road rash, one looked pretty bad, bent up bike and no rider in sight but ambulance lights were going and paramedics were in a hurry to get door shut and on their way. My wife went to workout at the gym this afternoon and said she was on the horn most of the way... No comment on her driving confidence. :lol: She also listens to a police scanner while gaming, there was some sort of road rage between a driver and biker about 30 miles east of us, Scappoose area Dave. I told her she only heard one of the many road rage calls today. :lol:

 

[Dave]

I stayed west of I-5 and north of Chehalis all day on Saturday so I avoided them. I live at about the half way point so most of them are through on Saturday. Just a few slow ones Sunday morning.

We own a ranch that is now in a very popular area with cyclists. One of my purest joys in life is driving a few hundred head of cattle a few miles up the blacktop midmorning on a Saturday.

Oh, I love that idea. If only I could get away with herding a bunch down the road..... Although I have often thought about pulling a disk or something wide down the road at a slow speed to block them. Or the manure spreader and accidently hit the PTO..... oops

 

[Alan]

I went down to the Hwy at about 7:30 last night just to see the number slow pokes. At the Hwy we have a boat ramp, a very small store and a tavern. Well at the tavern there were about a half dozen parked bikes four cars with bike racks and I could see a 10 or 12 folks on the patio having beers..... Now that's a rider I can respect,"the heck with this", "calling my wife to pick me up", I'm going to have a "few beers while I wait, anybody else?".

Dave manure spreader is heck of a thought....."oh! Did I leave that engaged?" :shock: