Harpers Ferry Ride

Thanks to everyone who participated in the ride to Harper's Ferry last Saturday. What a group!

If I'm not mistaken, we had around 12 bikes take part... a record number for our group.

The ride itself was not without a few hiccups... like getting lost, f'instance. That'll teach everyone to let me lead... lol. Other than that, the trip down Rt. 26 was lovely... even relaxing.

With a group this large, parking was going to be a problem for a small town like Harper's Ferry... and it was. Fortunately there was no shortage of illegal spaces.

The restaurant was a bust as far as I was concerned. The service was far too slow and the food was overpriced. Let's not go back there any time soon.

After spending two hours waiting for food, we were extremely fortunate in that the local police were distracted from giving us $50 parking tickets by some fool who drove his car up on the railroad tracks and got stuck. Thank God for morons.

In this picture you can see the car wedged neatly on the tracks and an oncoming train in the distance. A disaster was narrowly averted by a timely call to the dispatcher who was able to alert the engineer.

The train just.... just... managed to stop. The engineer later told me he was on the phone with his dispatcher when he rounded the bend. If the call had come a few seconds later, he would not have been able to stop.

Anyway, a tow truck came to pull the clown off the tracks and we drove away without getting tickets.

Laurence