3 Park Plus Ride...March 14, 2015

Melish said rain. We said maybe not, so five of us (Larry, Dennis, Dan, Steve D. and Bob S.) took a chance and rode off on the twice canceled Three Park Plus Ride.

The ride included visits to Red Top Mountain State Park, Etowah Mounds State Historic Site, Allatoona Pass Battlefield, Coopers Furnace C.O.E. Park and an aborted visit to the C.O.E. Visitor's Center, that surprisingly is closed on weekends.

We chose to stop at Doug's Place in Emerson for lunch. Doug's is a "meat-plus-two" local favorite that's a good place to park for a while and shoot the breeze (which we do well)

This was one of our shorter rides (less than 100 miles) and really intended for winter conditions, but we had fun, in spite of cloudy skies and occasional light showers.

Here's a very short video. Click on the YouTube logo (bottom right of video) for a larger view.The GoPro gave up the ghost during the ride as the wrong waterproof back door was installed allowing the camera body to rattle around in the closure. It recovered later.