Last month or so has been simply brutally cold; did some motorcycling but usually short and well bundled up. Have also had a lot of non-riding weather due to snow and rain and beyond belief cold; but finally at long last got a bit of warm weather in the Carolinas (and during a visit home) on January 18, 2010. Rode out to Kannapolis, NC and then on past to Landis, NC where the photo at left was taken. Like that little gazebo with my bike in front, also an old train station in the back of them (was an old post office to the far left..the white building there). Landis is a very small but quiet town, and a nice place to ride.
Mill at left was on down the road at nearby China Grove. China Grove is another small town in NC, but a nice place to ride to, and has some interesting sights to explore. From China Grove turned back via NC-29 to Concord past the (now closed) Philip Morris factory, and stopped at Lowe's Motor Speedway. I got some photos of the track (nothing was going on there, but it was open) and then visited with some friends from work at a nearby bar where we all gathered. One of my co-workers (and a riding buddy featured in the mountain ride a few posts back on this blog) found this week he has cancer. Steve will for sure give it a good fight, and we are all very hopeful that he will have a full recovery. At any case, the ride was fun, the visit was good ; nice to get out in the wind again for a few short hours on a pleasant sunny and warm (when its been 20s-30s for a month, 60's felt like t-shirt weather) day in the Carolinas.
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