Too much ADVrider.com (a.k.a. Why take an SV down that road)
Monday night I had to do some work on a server after hours so I logged on over the VPN from home around 8:00. I add a new server and Windows Network Load Balancing decides to bind the IP address to the wrong interface and takes the server offline. I hop on the bike and head in to work since it was a nice evening. I end up redoing the entire cluster and leaving work around midnight. The night was still pretty good and it was quiet on the streets at that time. Everything is up and running smooth at work by 2:00pm on Tuesday. I tell my boss that it’s too nice to stay any longer and I’m taking the rest of the afternoon off.
My wife was getting her hair done so I knew I had to be back to pick up my son so I couldn’t get too far away. I decided highway 80 would be a good destination for today. It’s a bit rough but I wasn’t planning on pushing too hard. I’m just out enjoying the nice day.
I was a little tired so I thought I’d pull over and drink my caffeine that I picked up when I topped off in Coweta. I noticed that this pull off was really a trail so I decided to head down it a bit.
It’s a little rocky but fairly decent trail overall. The SV is definitely geared too high for this but it’s handling it fine. I really miss having a dirtbike around about now.
A small creek running through with plenty of rocks. I wanted to check some other spots out so I decided to turn around here.
Looks like I’m not going this way either. 
I decided to get back on the pavement so I can save some time for more wandering later in the trip. Heading down 51 toward Wagoner.
This is where the batteries gave out and the spares are on the kitchen counter.
I see a sign “Porter 7 miles” between Wagoner and Coweta. I decide to take it so I can take 51B, 104 (back way into Haskell), 72 and Indian Road (161st). It starts out paved and quickly starts alternating sections of rock and rough asphalt. It turns completely to rock before the overpass for the turnpike and T’s right after the overpass. No sign at the T so I choose right since it’s going west. I figured I could adjust if it wasn’t the right way. Turns out it wasn’t the right way. The road gets worse and there’s grass growing in the middle of it. There’s rocks in a couple of the hills that weren’t cut out. It just drops and you get light going over it. It dumps into someone’s drive so I backtrack to the last intersection and jog north a mile before turning west again. This road does go through and I catch 51B heading north/south instead of catching it east/west like I had originally intended.
It’s fairly smooth sailing from here. Highway 104 goes along some sod farms, has a couple 25mph 90 degree turns and a 35mph sweeper before it crosses the Arkansas and heads into Haskell. Head up 72 toward Coweta and cross the river again. Turn on Indian Road (161st)and follow it until it turns north at county line road and on into BA. I get back to the house about the time I normally get home on a weekday. Jump in the Jeep and go pick up my son at daycare at the regular time.
Seeing how today and the next few days are turning out, I’m really glad I went out for a while yesterday. Might not have been really far or really exciting but I enjoyed myself. I have to take the opportunities as they come. Now I’m going go back to drooling over a Husqvarna TE610. 