This article talks about the relief one gets from just getting away for awhile.
Never owned a Kaw but the Suzukis and the Harley haven't been idle.
Back in the early 70's, I was a two-BMW guy...a beautiful maroon 1972 model 2002 sedan and a similar vintage white R60/5 bike (full wrap-around Windjammer fairing, saddle bags, etc.)
Hard to be cool living in Detroit then- but I managed ;-)
SWMBO and I never hesitate to "get away". We go for long drives (hours) just to get to a place to walk. A park, a small town, a flea market, a crafts show, etc. A cooler, some chairs and folding table means that a quiet lunch can be enjoyed whenever/wherever we want.
Spending a weekend in an Airbnb "just because" is something we do every couple of months. One time we drove 4 hours just to spent a couple of nights in an old church that had been converted to an Airbnb. Based on the layout, we're pretty sure that we "slept" on the alter. :-O
I moved out of NYC 4 decades ago because "getting away" was getting harder and harder to do. Not just because of the unrelenting traffic, but also because of the hectic lifestyle. I recall the day trips we used to take up into the Catskills or going apple picking on Long Island more fondly than I recall the "city stuff" that we used to do. It's always been about "getting away" for me.
"Getting away" is most definitely important for our well being.
I definitely don't need another bike but if a /5 wandered into the driveway I wouldn't chase it away. I'm not a fan of the newer models.
One year the Hell's Angels came here for their vacation run. The college kids raised hell protesting the Gestapo that was imported from St.George UT but the Angels were well behaved. There was one arrest and that was a Sons of Anarchy actor who was too much into his fictional role.
A couple of years later the BMW MOA showed up. Passel of assholes as a friend used to say.
I'm hoping my wife won't want to go with me to buy likker tomorrow ... I can turn that ride into an over a hundred mile round trip , with an outbound route that includes AR263 from AR66 to AR14 and an awesome ride up Push Mountain Road (AR341) and into Mountain Home . The ride home will probably be straight down AR5 into Mountain View , which is a nice though not exceptional ride .
I finally followed my own advice and headed for southeast Georgia after Labor Day. There's no such thing as level in northern Missouri. The saying straight as a string meant nothing to the highway construction crews there, either. It seems like I drove for 40 miles east of Tulsa, Oklahoma and was always within sight of a wind generator. One can't swing a dead cat in parts of Mississippi and Alabama without hitting a church of some sort. My Nebraska ears didn't work too well sometimes. People down there sound like they have marbles in their mouths to me. The image of old junk vehicles, trailer houses and other junk in a yard is true in places also. Businesses closed when the interstates got put in. The two lane, fun roads lost a lot of traffic. I got my feet wet in Atlantic Ocean surf and ate stuff I'd never heard of in restaurants along the coast. I'll die with two pennies in my pocket if things work out right down the road someday.
A couple of years ago I came back through the Missouri Ozarks. I was not impressed. It wasn't flat but it wasn't the Boston Mountains either. It seemed mostly about boats and I didn't have my kayak with me.
This area is part of the Boston Mountains . We're in the south/central part of the Ozark Plateau in Stone County Ar . It ain't flat , but it ain't the Rockies . Ain't a lot of straight roads around here either ...
I used to come down to AR to ride with friends about 10-12 times a year and AR341 is one of my favorites. 23, 21, and 14 are also very nice. The only downside is when we'd come up behind one of those all-too-frequent rolling roadblocks, the Harleys.
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