Back in June, my baby had a birthday. This was not a party year, so she got to pick an outing. She wanted to go trail riding. This sounded like a reasonable outing request; so I said ok.
Well, we had a busy summer. I did look off and on for a place where we could rent something and go on good trails that would take longer than an hour. I found nothing. Everyone wanted the driver to be 18. I understand that. I really do. So I had to break it to my girl that she could be a rider, but not a driver.
She still wanted to go, even as a rider. I had found one place that was right by lots of off-road paths. It would be perfect! I called and made a reservation for the first chance both our calendars would allow. The week before our date, the place called. They already machines in the shop. And some people had just wrecked two more machines. They had nothing for us to ride. So we had to postpone two weeks more. BUT, we did get a nice discount for being so patient and understanding! And I love a good discount! Actually the discount more than paid for our dinner tonight!
The place is pretty neat. There are two brothers. One runs a restaurant. One runs the rentals. The one that runs the rentals is a retired fire chief from Detroit. He recognized the region of my area code, so we got to talking 🙂
Tonight I am thankful for a fun day today! We got lost a few times! It is kind of crazy how many unmarked, narrow roads there are up north aways. I thought we were on trails when we were on roads, and vice versa. But, cell phone GPS that wore down my battery saved the day! We got a little dirty; and had a lot of fun!
Bug's Bright Side 