Bow Tie Tour

(Bold by Eric)

It was mid afternoon when we left the camp, headed North East to Rolla, Missouri where we were planning to stay with the Eldridges whom we met at the reunion. Three brothers, all homeschool graduates who run a machine shop and enjoy the finer things in life. By finer things I mean, motorcycles, 4 wheelers, guns, caves and blowing things up

The ride there was bloody hot, 107 degrees wearing full leather, lets just say I won’t be visiting a steam bath for some time. To make it even worse there was road construction and we had to sit and wait for far too long. We arrived, unpacked then went to see their machine shop. We ate some dessert with their family then went outside to see one of the brothers walking out with two large balloons, another brother came out with a Russian SKS and they told us to cover our ears. The balloons contained oxygen and acetylene, which when shot by a high powered rifle, well lets just say it was fun and the windows in the house shook It was a blast (pun intended) we then went out to a huge cave (it was amazing!) and rode 4 wheelers.

To top the evening off we went back to Dave’s house and watched “Faster” a moto gp documentary, which if you haven’t seen and like bikes, then you need to watch it.

The plans for the next morning included a couple of hours riding with the Eldridges to help teach them proper body position and to do our best to drag a knee in Missouri!