A Fork In the Road and Strawberry Fields Forever

Today dawned warm and muggy for the Saturday Morning Leisure Ride. Jim, Lisa, Richard and I rode 36 miles from Clermont circling around to the West. Bernie joined us at North Hall High School with his new TREK 2100 and finished the last section of the ride with us. The wind picked up and was rather brutal for the last 20 miles or so. At least, it did not rain. I would settle for a happy medium of cloudy, no rain, no wind, and 75 degrees.

Here are a couple of our well trained riders making sure no one parks in the "No Parking Anytime" zone at a Murrayville convenience store. In less than 10 days these two will be bicycling in Wisconsin and I don't think they will be complaining about the heat and humidity.

After the ride, Bernie and I made a run looking at a new route around Cleveland that eliminates some of the traffic issues. We were driving along when we came to a Fork In the Road or was that a road bifurcation? We took the road less traveled and that made all the difference.

After getting back home, Debbie was on a roll or shall we say was getting picky. We left almost immediately to go the the strawbery field north of Dahlonega and just a couple of miles north of Lumpkin County High School on the right. I highly recommend it after grazing through the berry patch and picking about 3 gallons of berries. Price is right and they use limited pesticides. There is about this much field to the right also and some across Yahola Creek.

We then decided to make a day of it and drive up through the mountains and came out near Vogel State Park. Mountain Laurel and Flame Azaleas were beautiful.

We came back through Helen and saw the site of the Missing Soles. The picture below are flip flops, etc. that have been recovered from the Chattahoochee River after being lost by tubers.