Yesterday was Saturday. Nine days from the date of Joyce's surgery to remove some sunshine caused cancer on her lower lip (they removed the entire surface of her lower lip and built a new lip), she was itching to get back on the bike and go 'anywhere'.
So, we hopped on about 11 AM and road west from Olympia, Washington where we live. About 20 miles west of Olympia is a very small town called McCleary. We end up riding thru McCleary often as there are three nice 'riding roads' that meet in McCleary.
From McCleary to Shelton on back roads ending up at the Little Creek Casino (and then going either North to Port Townsend or South back to Olympia), is a great 45 minute road with very little traffic on it.
McCleary going west parallel to State Hwy 8 on the side road is fantastic! The speed limit is 50 mph so a nice speed to ride and look around at the scenery. There are farms, ranches, a huge range of housing types from beat up old trailers to spectacular mansions on mini-farms. You ride over a couple of rivers, and they are full of salmon this time of year. On this road you can go out to Elma and then from there to some other great riding roads.
Finally there is the road from McCleary that goes south to Malone and connects up with Hwy 12.
Each of these roads are almost completely car free, and often the majority of traffic are motorcycles on a sunny day.
McCleary itself is a very small little place. There isn't even a traffic light, although there is ONE STOP SIGN! You'd better be sure to stop as the police station is at the same corner, and there is almost always a local police car sitting there.
There are two restaurants, a bar, and a non branded Harley repair shop in town, plus a couple of quick stop grocery/gas stations, and a few other stores.
One of those restaurants is fairly new. It is called "Rain Country Restaurant". We made our third stop there yesterday. They make the best Club Sandwich in the world! It is so huge that even when we had them split it for us both to share, we could barely finish it. A few weeks ago, we split one of them into quarters as a snack for four of us to share. Even then it filled all four folks up for a good while. They also have 'curly fries' to die for!...(probably would die if you ate too many of them). AND....there is always something special in the home made desert cooler....Yesterday they had some Lemon Merangue Pie and a Sticky Bun that looked incredibly delicious. Luckily I was able to overcome my strong desire to have desert, as the sandwich really filled me up again.
So....Ride Safe fellow members! If you're ever out near McCleary, Washington, stop in the Rain Country Restaurant, you'll be glad you did.
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