Sunday July 20
Clifty State Park Madison, Indiana
We had an awsome day today. Vicki and I left from home about 1:00 into Fairfield and took East Miami River Road all the way out to Cleves. (RoadRunner territory) we jumped on to SR 50 rode to Dillsboro where we took SR 62 all the way to Clifty State Park in Madison, Indiana. We rode through the park and hiked down to see some waterfalls. Then we decided we needed a cooling off so we got our bathing suits out of the bike and went into the pool. After a relaxing swim and cooling off we got back into our riding clothes and headed for home taking a diffferent route. We motored up the Oho river on SR 56 East. As we got close to Rising Sun, Indiana the skys looked threatening and we felt a few sprinkles. We pulled of at a gas station and put on our rain gear and continued. Just as we got into Aurora we heard the tornado sirens going off and she skys looked wicked. We pulled into one of our favorite stops to eat along the river, The Applewood Restaurant. We had dinner while the sky opened up, the wind blew fiercely, and lightning strikes hit one after another. An hour in the restaurant was just what we needed to let the storm somewhat move on. We headed on to SR 50 in the rain until we made our turn on to SR 128 toward home. The rain stopped somewhere around Ross, Ohio and we cruised the rest of the way in. A nice ride with a total of 204 miles round trip, and a total of 8 hours counting dinner, swimming, and hiking time. The rain gear did it's job and we kept dry. She's starting to not mind the rain as much as she use to. Just a note Indiana State parks charge $7. for non resident vehicles to enter.