The Perry Run

So I've been enjoying a couple of "photo tag" games on two of the bike forums I visit on the internet. The idea is, one guy rides somewhere, takes a picture of his bike in front of a landmark, then the first one to figure out where it is and take the same picture, except with HIS (or her) bike, gets to pick the next place and the cycle begins again.

As luck would have it, both games of tag had places within 50 miles or so of each other, so I decided to knock them both out in one run. I like to go ahead and get my choice of picture taken on the same day, so as not to make the next person wait. This meant that I needed to hit four geographically diverse landmarks. Didn't seem fair to swap the two, or post the same picture as the next tag on both sites.

So I left Choctaw about 2:30 on Sunday afternoon bound for Marshall, OK and Perry, OK. I also wanted to hit two other towns for my tags, but had no plans. I headed north up Hiwassee road to Route 66, which I took west to Midwest Blvd, and headed north to Waterloo Road. I figured that was far enough north to avoid city Sunday drivers and get over to Hwy 74 for the shot north to Marshall. Not the case. Apparently residents of northern OK county like to poke around as much as anyone. Anyway, I hit 74 and went north toward Crescent, but got sidetracked at Hwy 33 when my tummy reminded me that I had not eaten all day (cereal doesn't count, there's no meat in it).

I hoffed a polish sausage, and checked the GPS, which showed Okarche off in the distance to the West. I thought Eischen's Chicken would make a fitting tag, so I went West on 33. I never saw Okarche again on the GPS, but when I hit Kingfisher, I found my first promising tag picture.

A Chisolm Trail Memorial.

At this point, I wanted to get back to heading north, so I gave up on Okarche. Another day. So I headed up Hwy 81toward Hennessey and Hwy 51. Entering Hennesey, I found this little gem:

Where they have:

I didn't stick around to find out. My butt already hurt. So with two new tags out of the way, on to Marshall for the first of the two required "old" tags:

which is the Marshall Cafe.
Then on to Perry for this one:

Since Hwy 86 runs south to 51, I took it instead of hitting the I-35 superslab just yet to get home. When I stopped west of Stillwater for gas, right next to the station sat what I believe to be the Area 51 riding area:

 

 

From there is was a straight shot down I-35 and Sooner Road back home. Between this ride and Bobbie's first riding lesson today, it was a great day!