starmac
08-25-2014, 03:39 PM
With our crazy work schedule, my wife mentioned that we hadn't got to do anything together yesterday. We needed more berries anyway, so I told her to pack an ice chest and we would go pick some berries. I loaded the wheelers, she has only ever ridden my AC (automatic) once in the driveway, so when we unloaded them I put her on my old honda which is easier to handle by far, but is standard shift. We started out on an old logging road, bad ruts, but otherwise pretty easy riding and by the time we got to the end of it and hit some pretty intense trail, she had mastered it pretty well. She handled it like a pro and had a ball.
We rode 36 miles, and fixed sandwiches at the turn around point, which was a few miles from the end of the road. While I was chowing down on my sandwich (in the rain), I noticed a shiny piece of brass in the grass, and found 12 nice 270 cases (bonus).
We stopped several times on the way back and picked berries (in the rain), but only wound up with about a gallon of high bush cranberries.
We got back to the pickup at 9 pm, cold and wet and a little saddle sore, but she said she could not remember having that much fun.
My grandkids are in the process of moving up from florida, and the girls 12 and 13 have been chomping at the bit wanting four wheelers, so ever since thye have decided to make the move up, I have been on the lookout for a couple of affordable older hondas for them. On the way back to town my lovely little wife mentions, we could just get one and give them MY honda and get her a new one.
58 years old, and now she decides she wants to take up back country four wheeling. lol
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. (if I want her to know I called her a dog, I will tell her myself) lol
We rode 36 miles, and fixed sandwiches at the turn around point, which was a few miles from the end of the road. While I was chowing down on my sandwich (in the rain), I noticed a shiny piece of brass in the grass, and found 12 nice 270 cases (bonus).
We stopped several times on the way back and picked berries (in the rain), but only wound up with about a gallon of high bush cranberries.
We got back to the pickup at 9 pm, cold and wet and a little saddle sore, but she said she could not remember having that much fun.
My grandkids are in the process of moving up from florida, and the girls 12 and 13 have been chomping at the bit wanting four wheelers, so ever since thye have decided to make the move up, I have been on the lookout for a couple of affordable older hondas for them. On the way back to town my lovely little wife mentions, we could just get one and give them MY honda and get her a new one.
58 years old, and now she decides she wants to take up back country four wheeling. lol
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. (if I want her to know I called her a dog, I will tell her myself) lol