Wednesday was our rideohio.org Meet & Greet at Baugards BBQ in Wilmington, Ohio.
The Southwest Ohio group started from the Wendy's in Miamitown. As it worked its way east myself, Lymon, and Mike jumped in at Tractor Supply. We were 12 bikes at that time. We made the next stop at McDonanlds in Lebanon, Ohio where we found 19 more bikes waiting on us.
Now keep in mind that Beaugards is expecting about 12 to 15 people.
We wound our way through Fort Ancient up Route 350 to Route 68 to Beaugards where more bikes from around the state were waiting.
While I don't know the exact number of bikes or people in our group I would estimate about 50 - 60 people and about that many bikes.

Lunch was wonderful. I had the 9 bone rib plate with two sides and sweet tea. Delicious!

After lunch Mickey led us on a ride South East to the river. We went south on Route 73 then east on Route 50 to Route 41 south which was a very twisty scenic ride. I loved it.
When we reached the intersection of Route 41 and Route 32 most of our group split off their own ways toward home.
Several of us continued toward the river where we finaly reached it in Aberdene. We pulled down by the river in a park where we said our goodbyes again to more of our small group after posing for pictures in front of the suspension bridge.
Two more split off here which left me, Ltmon, Mike and Mickey heading west on 56 down river.
Mickey reached his route home and made his turn while the remaining three of us from Butler County decided to stay off of the interstate at rush hour. We programed the GPS to route us through Milford to Lebanon then made our way home. In all we rode about 260 miles that day. Met some new friends and can put some faces with names on our website.
This was the best ride of the week and I hope we do another meet & Greet soon.

Tuesday I got the ride with the retired & riding guys. Rain threatened but we set out. The route took us Miami River Road to Buffalo Ridge. We ended out on Route 50 then up Cliff Road where we overlooked the river. Some more back roads then into Cedar Grove Indiana where we had lunch at the Cedar Grove tavern. A unique little bar/restaurant with four full size bowling lanes. The food was good and very reasonably priced. From here we sort of split up the group and went our own way home.