Motorcycle Ride to Nowhere

Oh, I got side tracked. That happens from time to time the same way I left Illinois heading for Sturgis in 2007 and ended up at the Four Corners Monument in New Mexico! OK back to Ohio and the AMA museum. We found the museum by accident. We were cruising along with our stomachs growling and I happened to see the sign for the AMA Museum. We decided to stop, check out the museum and ask for recommendations for a good spot for lunch. We spend about an hour looking at the neat exhibits. Later, we ended up at a sports bar eating pizza and wings watching the Ohio State vs. Navy Football game. Here are some pictures from the AMA Museum. We saw the police motorcycle from the movie Terminator 2, the Captain America bike, the Aston Martin/James Bond bike, and a collection of Arlen Ness bikes to name a few.  There were many great displays. Terminator 2 movie bike Greatest American Hero tv show bike            ...

I really need to post our stories a little faster! The more time that passes the less I tend to remember. Sort of like those dumb bell weights in my basement--the longer they sit the heavier they seem to get! I was going through the pictures that I took on this year's trip and came across some from the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in Pickerington, Ohio. I recall Brad and I were riding through Wheeling, West Virginia when traffic came to a stop. Brad was listening to the truckers talk on the CB radio and found an alternate route around all the traffic and across the bridge into Ohio. That CB radio helped us many times in the past to avoid traffic delays and speed traps while traveling on the highway. My FM radio only helped us once when we were riding through Toronto and the local radio announcer said there was some wire cable that fell off a truck and was in the middle of the fast lane. Luckily I heard the announcement and changed lanes. There are many riders not so lucky. While h...