Sweet 16

One of the New England Rider forums poster asked the question, "What constitutes a ride ? Does riding to Dunkin Donuts 6 miles away really a ride ? "

I don't know the answer to the question, however I did make a reference to going out simply to grab a TAG, which is not a whole lot different than riding to DD. For most, riding to DD makes more sense than going to get a sign with a 16 on it. For me the Sweet 16 is much better than an over rated DD coffee.

Toy Trucks Go Criminal

We were out hunting NER tags and National Landmarks today. We had grabbed the Connecticut tag and needed a place to send people for the next tag. Google had Ida Tarbell's House on Poverty Hollow Rd in Easton. Well Ida's place is way off from where it really is located, however we came across this extremely remote location on Stepney Rd.

Joey Smithers was the first victim of Ebenezer Aiken. Then Patrick Hannon was next, followed by Casey O'Reilley, then Donald, Steven, Clarence, Larry, Jacqueline (tomboy), Evan, AJ, Skyler, Brian, Tony, Ray, George, Charles, Peter, Nathan and list goes on and on.

Each one of these boys and the one girl, gave their trucks and now reside in the back yard. The Tonka earth movers, bull dozer, and backhoe is hidden from view, covered by camouflaged tarps.

Jason, Penelope, Jennifer, Derek and Dr. Reid have been dispatched from Quantico and are flying in on their Gulfstream G650 to investigate. Stay tuned to your sets.

Treasure Hunt goes Taggin

OSJ has added a new bonus to the treasure hunt. Capture any 2 Tags and possess both of at the same time you will earn 5,000 points.

Of course, with this added incentive and the MA and RI tags only a measley 150 mile trip from Home, MeAsWe and I set out to get our first set. As soon as I got home from work (around 6pm), we suited up and headed out in the balmy 50 degree weather for this place arriving around 7:15pm.

With the first tag under our belt, it was off to Bristol, RI for the matching tag. We arrived around 9pm. With the sun asleep for the day, we had to use the spot light we carry for just such occassions. It semi worked throwing enough light to enable some additional photo enhancement to show the tag.

With both tags bagged we headed home to post up the pics. I tried posting up from my new notebook on site, but apparently the dang thing has lost its drivers for the mouse touch pad and I didn't have a USB mouse with me. Arriving home around 11pm we posted up and grabbed the 5,000 points for the dual tags.

It was right around 11:30, it dawned on me where we were going to ride for the weekend. Having a day off from work coming to me, this made a nice 3 day weekend to put some serious miles on. We were headed for Vermont to grab the Tag there and some other treasure hunt places. I figured if we grabbed Vermont, that would give us 3 combinations of 2 tag sets or 15,000 points. Of course, once we were in Vermont, New Hampshire tag was just down the road a piece giving us 4 tags or 6 matchng 2 Tag sets for a total of 30,000 and then Maine was only up the pike a bit. With 5 tags you get 10 2 tag sets, for 50,000 points. Now I already had CT tag bagged before this started so someone would have to chase this one down, so we could lock up all 6 that would be 15 combinations or 75,000 points. Not too shabby eh and quite doable too. Stay tuned for an update .