Biking/Hiking/Walk-about Weekend

Okay, it's been a while {AGAIN} and I have NO EXCUSE...
So where did we leave off... The trip Up North.  Ryan and I went on a trip a few weeks back and I promised pics!  So this post will mostly be pics!!! Are they AWESOME pics? NOPE. But I did learn how to get all my pics on here {not just ones from my iPhone}so some will be better than others!!!
I am a big fan of Fall. I love all the pretty colors and the warm days/cool nights and the falling leaves and the hot chocolate and fuzzy hats and the hunting and well I pretty much LOVE all things FALL!!! So this year my husband borrowed a dual sport motorcycle{for those of you NOT bike aware, that is basically a dirt bike that is street legal}from his brother in law.  He threw the bike in the back of the truck and we went and stayed at the in-laws cabin in Cadillac. We stopped at Lonestar and ate on our way. YUMMY!!!!

In the morning we rode from the cabin to the state land and rode around in the woods, hiked in the woods, had a picnic and then biked around the country roads, and back to cabin! And then we did it all over again the next day.  Here  are  the  pics

Ready To Ride!

 

  The trails

  cool looking pond/dam kinda thing...

 Pictures from the road

 Me picking leaves

 from the coolest tree on the trip

 I like how the wind is blowing the leaves...

 can't figure out how to rotate pics, weird!

 another little pond/marsh...

 Stumbled onto this HUGE rock! Ryan said it would NOT fit in my backpack!!

 ooops, sideways!

 He loves when I take his pic

 funny mushroom, growing out the side of a tree...

 He would get far ahead and then have to wait for my sad, fat, slow ass!

 More big cool rocks

 Mushrooms, fungus... I like taking pics of these guys! Why? I just think they look kinda cool and strange!!!

Sometimes when he got bored, waiting for me to catch up, he'd move big rocks off the bike trails! 

 The treasures I picked up!

 My new BOOTS!

 

The Picinic...

THE COOLEST TREE!!!!

 

Ryan waits patiently, while I take pics and gather cool leaves...

 

 Windmill farm... Awesome

 

more cool trees...

 Funky weird looking frog

 Chipmunk

 Picnic

 Dragonfly

 Supper Time

I had a great time, even though I was still kind of sick, it's hard to walk up big hills when you are hacking up a lung!!! I liked riding the bike, even though my ass was killing me by the end of the trip!!! We rode a total of 115miles.  I got to give the "biker wave"!!! I was pretty geeked about that, Ryan laughed at me!!!  I wish we had seen more wildlife, I wish I had gotten pictures of the HUGE ravens, and the bald Eagle, but at least we saw them... We didn't see a single deer, but with me hacking and blowing my nose, I'm not shocked!!! I learned a few things along the way... **The back seat of a Harley is a LOT more comfortable that a Dual Sport. *BUT a Harley could never go the places we went, so I am gonna need 2 bikes now!!! **There is a reason bikers braid their hair.  **It's hard to see around a guy who is 6 foot tall, so my own bike will definitely improve the sight seeing. On the way home Sunday we stopped at Jay's Sporting Goods. I got a new journal, for bikers!

And that one's upside down!!! too funny!!

So there you have it... I'm sure there was a lot more to tell, but I'm trying to keep it short, what with all the pics!!!