Driving in Rain to Hillbilly Hall

CT Bears in Hopewell, from left: Grumpy, Captain and Pogy.

Polar Bear Motorcycle Blog, Polar Bear Grand Tour, ride drive to Hillbilly Hall, Hopewell, NJ, Nov. 24, 2019

By: Chris Loynd
Photos by: Grumpy

A few of our guys braved some solid and steady rain – in their car to have some lunch and sign-in. I did not join them, it was my wife Cynthia's birthday. I don't have anything more from my guys than the photos below.

Cynthia celebrated with a 5-mile run in Waterbury and then lunch at a nearby winery joined by her children and their significant others, Annie's husband Sean and Trever's finance Kenzie.

Holiday Traffic

Connecticut Polar Bears in Hopewell, NJ, from left: Fonz, Grumpy, Captain, Mac and Pogy down front.

Motorcycle Polar Bear Blog, Polar Bear Grand Tour, ride to Hillbilly Hall, Hopewell, NJ, November 25, 2018

Report by: Pogy
Photos by: Grumpy and Fonzie

All agreed to an early departure anticipating heavy holiday traffic on the return flight – Ride started at 0800 in Stratford picking me up at about 0820.  There were 5 of us, Fonz in the lead, then the Captain, Mac, Grumpy and I fell In as sweep.  The ride down was little traffic and we decided to stop at a diner before signing in -  after chow we motored a short distance to the Hillbilly hall arriving just in time to sign in – 

We were back on the road but 1150 – fueled up and proceeded north.  Fonz took us thru some interesting countryside – it looked like if we came sooner we would have encountered some flooded roads – just an observation!

Made pretty good time until we got about 9 miles from the Tap bridge – Lots of Hand, eye, and toe coordination – finally made it over the bridge and we followed the leader on to the Hutch – we no sooner got on it when Fonz, the Captain and Mac decided to make another right – I was thinking that they decided to cut over to 95 and not really knowing what was going on , myself and Grumpy decided to stay on 15.  Traffic was heavy right thru Stamford and then opened up.

Later I talked to the Captain only to find out that when we got on the Hutch they pulled over for a pee break – Grumpy and I had no clue

In the end it was a nice day and a good ride 

See you all next week

Ride safe

Pog

Fonzie, the Polar Rican!