Road Therapy 3

[spyderCodes]

Road Therapy with a favorite.
I'm quite certain you have a favorite Spyder Road.
Call it what you will.
I call it The Long Way Home.
The Long Way Home for me is PA 68.

It's a road with the right amount of challenging twisties, straight stretches and hills.
A road that in spots, over a certain speed demands concentration.
Concentration promotes the Road Therapy.

This time of year the smells can transport you back in time.
The Long Way Home has an impeccably managed dairy farm with a couple of hundred head of the sweetest eyed brown cows.
I like the smell of cows.
As I pass I am 9 years old on my Aunt's farm running in the pasture.

A dead deer can punctuate the drive with that distinctive aroma.
Tonight, after a hot day, you know what I mean.
It's all good.

If I go far enough on The Long Way Home I pass Restaurant Row.
The usual establishments, Chiles, Applebees and MickDees.
But their combined odors on a warm summer night makes me nostalgic for something I can't find the words for.

Road Therapy on an old friend.

Road Therapy 1
Road Therapy 2

 

[IGETAROUND]

Road Therapy with a favorite.
I'm quite certain you have a favorite Spyder Road.
Call it what you will.
I call it The Long Way Home.
The Long Way Home for me is PA 68.

It's a road that has just the right amount of challenging twisties, straight stretches and hills.
A road that in spots, over a certain speed demands concentration.
It's the concentration that promotes the Road Therapy.

This time of year the smells can transport you back in time.
The Long Way Home has an impeccably managed dairy farm with a couple of hundred head of the sweetest eyed brown cows.
I like the smell of cows.
As I pass I am 9 years old on my Aunt's farm running in the pasture.

A dead deer can punctuate the drive with that distinctive aroma.
Tonight, after a hot day, you know what I mean.
It's all good.

If I go far enough on The Long Way Home I pass Restaurant Row.
The usual establishments, Chiles, Applebees and MickDees.
But their combined odors on a warm summer night makes me nostalgic for something I can't find the words for.

Road Therapy on an old friend.

Love your musings, share a lot of the same feelings. Are you and insomniac or up early to milk the Llamas??

Al

 

[spyderCodes]

Love your musings, share a lot of the same feelings. Are you and insomniac or up early to milk the Llamas??

Al

insomniac

 

[Highwayman2013]

Pennsylvania seems to have many of these roads.

 

[Bob Denman]

You really know how to describe the feelings and experiences of a ride! :clap: :2thumbs:
When we head out on a Sunday morning: we'll often take Rte 55A around the North side of the Rondout Reservoir (You've been on that road!).
As we travel from one patch of sunlight to the next; the shadows in-between point out to us how much warmth is given us by the Sun... The wild flower patches along the road tease us with their wonderful fragrances, and are suddenly punctuated by the remains of a deer, that recently lost a footrace with a car...

And it's all good!

 

[ARtraveler]

For me, its a quiet ride climbing the mountain up to Eklutna Lake and back. A close second is the Knik River Road. Both follow rivers and have very high mountain views. The Knik offers a glacier view.

Both, a half hour or less from home base. :yes:

 

[Gunkandpudge]

Road Therapy

Out with Pudge on the RT. Got caught in a cloud burst. Within 5 mins I couldn't see the road. Pulled into a gas station and waited out the 20 min down pour. Still fun!!
:yes:

 

[SteveP]

Water for me

Any Ryde that entails travelling close to a big river ( St Lawrence is good) or a lake , takes me away to a good place in my mind ... As a child we always had a trailer or cottage on the water , boating , skiing or playing on big truck tubes in the water with my brothers or other kids . I've been away from open air driving for 15 years until last year when I got my :f_spider:. Without trying to sound melodramatic it has added a happiness to our lives and something to look forward to again , and a reason to seek out old places that spark memories of younger days when getting old just didn't seem possible . :riding:

 

[Brettssunshine]

Not the "Long Way Home"

But one of my favorite rides.........
http://www.motowhere.com/maps/route/River-Road-Columbia-PA

 

[spyderCodes]

I've been on that road. nice.

 

[Grandpot]

Sweet grass

Spydercodes, you're right to take in what is around you and to appreciate it. This spring I was with Rolling Thunder while we escorted two wounded solders home from the Middle East. All along the route, there was the smell of freshly cut grass that made me think how good that smell was to them after coming home from the stinking sandpit they were in.