Memorial Day Trip To North Coast of USA

[The Seeker]

I'm a bit late on posting about this, but on Memorial Day it was 93F and humid...so I decided to take a little road trip up to the North Coast of the USA (ie: Geneva On The Lake, Ohio on Lake Erie).

I didn't really stop and take pictures along the way which is too bad because I took all backroads through Amish Country in Northeast Ohio and the Amish were out in abundance. I dodged lots of buggies and wagons and even rode past a huge Amish get-together where they were having a big picnic and the kids were playing volley ball.

Still, with a full face black helmet, it was roasting. So whenever I hit Geneva On The Lake, it felt like air conditioning riding right along the Lake Erie shoreline.

Here's the Trophy parked next to a monstrosity (bright yellow 3-wheeled Honda living room on wheels):



There were also various Harleys of course too:



I saw this Harley "rat bike" parked along the main drag (I don't know why the knobby tires?):




A nice view of Lake Erie:



I found a nice shady spot under some trees and just hung-out eating dark chocolate and peanut butter ice cream for a while:






Sorry there's not many photos or anything really interesting, but I was just taking a relaxing, leisurely ride on a hot sunny day!

 

[Rocky]

You really threw me with the "north coast" tag line since the US doesn't have a north coast, but I soon "got it."
Those Great Lakes are like inland seas.
One of those big yellow Honda trikes was up this way last year and we had lunch with the two riders - a retired husband and wife from Florida enjoying the cool fresh air of the Maritimes.
He put it reverse, grinned, and rode away.

 

[devo]

good stuff
great looking day

 

[The Seeker]

You really threw me with the "north coast" tag line since the US doesn't have a north coast, but I soon "got it."
Those Great Lakes are like inland seas.
One of those big yellow Honda trikes was up this way last year and we had lunch with the two riders - a retired husband and wife from Florida enjoying the cool fresh air of the Maritimes.
He put it reverse, grinned, and rode away.

For all intents and purposes you may as well be at an ocean!

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[hemibee]

Thanks for sharing the ride. I've been to the Great Lakes (Erie) once and really enjoyed my time there.


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[DaveM]

Thanks for posting this and if Rocky did not mention it I would have not been any the wiser about it not being by the ocean

 

[The Seeker]

As Rocky said, the Great Lakes are more like inland seas than they are lakes......absolutely enormous.

Here's a bit about Lake Erie:

Lake Erie[SUP][2][/SUP] (

/ˈɪri/; French: Lac Érié) is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally.

It is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario, on the south by the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and on the west by the state of Michigan. The lake is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore.[SUP][4][/SUP] The outflow from the lake provides hydroelectric power to Canada and the U.S. as it spins huge turbines at Niagara Falls.[SUP][6]

[/SUP]It has a surface area of 9,940 square miles (25,745 km²)[SUP][1][/SUP] with a length of 241 miles (388 km) and breadth of 57 miles (92 km) at its widest points.

 

[DaveM]

Wow they sure are large