My wife and I just completed a 636 mile trip which included southern Minnesota on Hwy 16. This is a very beautiful and scenic drive. At times we felt we had
the road all to ourselves as we weaved and wound our way through the curves and hills. A special morning time in the cruise was the Root River on our left,
the towering tree covered cliffs giving shade from the sun on our right, and feeling the cool moist air flowing out of the trees. Been real tough to
experience this in a car or truck even with the windows down. Later in the day we caught Hwy 26 down to Lansing Iowa, then crossed the steel open floored
bridge into Wisconsin to Hwy 35 and continued south to Prairie DuChein. On the way we were lucky enough to catch a Tug with barges enter Lock and Dam 9 and
watch that interesting procedure of passage up the Mississippi. All in all we had a great trip - no close calls from the crazy's out there and the 98
Shadow with some on and off tappet noise carried us and all our luggage like a champ and we got 46 mpg to boot. Gotta love travel on a motorcycle....
National Scenic Byway Minnesota Hwy 16
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That is a beautiful area, in fact, one of the best in the Midwest. Glad you guys had a good time. Did you do the ride during the week? Weekends get a bit busy
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any pics? i love that area too, but it's been years since i've been there. bud
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Posts: 47 06/28/07 2:16 PM |
Hey Bob, we did our tripping Monday and Tuesday of this week. Traffic was light and I'm sure that made it much more enjoyable. We did notice a lot of
truck traffic from Dexter to Preston as they were using Hwys 63 & 52. From Preston on no trucks so that was really nice.
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Howdy Bud here are some pictures from our trip. We used 400 speed film - I gave the camera to my wife and told her to shoot at will. We got some great shots
from the back of bike. Enjoy.
    
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thanks for sharing the pics!
Sounds like a nice run.
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Thanks, great pics.
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Sounds like a great trip..Thanks for the pics...Bob <><
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Cudos to your wife. She has a good eye. She should have kept going and snapped more.
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Tell your better half that she did a great job on the pictures. Thanks for posting them. That is a beautiful area to ride. Bob
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