Club Ride - Ozello Trail - December 28, 2013

Gunny, Mr. Sarcasm and I rolled out after breakfast at Snellgroves and headed north toward Ozello in the usual circuitous fashion. After an hour-and-a-half of twisting through the countryside, we made our first stop at the Hess gas station in Brooksville to download some coffee.

Gunny and Mr. Sarcasm in the Hess parking lot:

Leaving the Hess station, we headed into downtown Brooksville before turning north again toward CR 491. The weather was overcast, but that didn't hurt the quality of the riding one bit:

Gunny looped us all through the woods around Booksville until we ended up on US 19 at US 98, where we headed due north on the direct line to the Ozello Trail. On US 19 I got a chance to shoot a few shots of the guys astride their steeds. Here is Gunny rolling up the highway on his Triumph Trophy SE:

Mr. Sarcasm was riding his V-Strom again today:

We rode the Ozello Trail to its terminus at the water's edge. We stopped for a quick look around and Gunny took advantage of the opportunity to take a picture of me taking a picture of him:

Here's a close-up shot of my Triumph Trophy SE. It is a well-established fact that the silver ones are the fastest, best balanced, and best looking of the Trophy line:

Back on the bikes we doubled-back to Perk's Old Port Cove Seafood Restaurant for a tasty lunch. This is a shot of Gunny and Mr. Sarcasm delicately turning into the motorcycle-treacherous gravel parking lot:

We got a pretty good parking spot right near the restaurant and the water:

They've dressed the place up a bit since our last visit:

Out in the parking lot Mr. Sarcasm was the epitome of cool:

We elected to dine on the deck overlooking the water:

I did mention that the food at Perk's is tasty, right? We all chose the crab-stuffed grouper topped with two gigantic shrimp and served with fries, coleslaw, and hush puppies. Yes, it was delicious!:

They have fresh blue crabs at Perk's, too. How fresh, you ask? This fresh:

The best thing about riding out to the end of the Ozello Trail is that you have to retrace your route to leave. Since the Ozello Trail is referred to by some as the twistiest road in Florida it's a good time in both directions:

Leaving the Ozello Trail we headed south on US 19 all the way down to Spring Hill so that Mr. Sarcasm could check out a new KTM dual-sport bike that caught his attention. This shop sells KTM, Triumph, and even Royal Enfield bikes:

The outside appearance of the shop belies the sea of top-notch bikes on display inside:

I like the look and retro design of the Royal Enfields, but they are just too small to be practical for me:

This is the KTM that Mr. Sarcasm came to see. As usual, his taste in motorcycles is impeccable:

Gunny kept getting in the way of my great photographs, so I asked him to move out of the way. This is what Gunny getting out of the way looks like:

Here's another shot of the KTM that Mr. Sarcasm is contemplating adding to his stable of bikes:

Mr. Sarcasm even looked reasonably comfortable sitting on it:

We did luck up and found a motorcycle that was perfectly sized for Gunny:

Mr. Sarcasm told us to get him out of that shop while he still had money in his pocket, but he just had to take one last look at that KTM on the way to the door:

Leaving Spring Hill we made for home via the indirect, country roads route. I split off from the other guys in San Antonio where they turned east toward Polk County while I continued south toward Hillsborough County. I ran into some rain showers in Zephyrhills and continued to ride in and out of rain the rest of the way home:

I arrived home at about 4:10 p.m., with 210 miles showing for the day's riding. Despite the overcast and the late rain showers, this was a great day of riding. I feel sorry for my northern two-wheel brothers who are snowbound this time of year. They were dreaming of their springtime rides to come while I was out riding in t-shirt weather. Ya gotta love Florida!

 

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Club Ride - DeLand Airport - December 7, 2012

A few of us rode over to the airport in DeLand for a MSTA meet-up, where we enjoyed fellowship with other riders, a tasty lunch, and plenty of skydiving action. Here's a short video I put together on the skydiving. My advance apologies if the titles aren't formatted correctly! I'm having an issue with iMovie on my iPad:

 

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