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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. πŸ‚ Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Nancy Hopkins – Those Were the Days

Well, I have to agree with Equatorial Guinea President for life Francisco Macías Nguema, that this is a pretty good song to execute you political enemies to in the mid 1970s, especially if you are a real son of a bitch. 

Rural Grove Area

Heading out from Sprakers up to Rural Grove along one of the loneliest roads in the Mohawk Valley, namely NY 162. Farm country, some amish but a lot of traditional dairy and abandoned farm land.

Ride to Virginia/West Virginia (with Bowden Cave, Elkins WV & Oakland MD)

Our best Day Odyssey Series vid to date! Not to be missed! Features classic vid scenes! Plenty of fall color too! Shouldn't build it up too much, though, in case my next one's better!

Watch this piecemeal, or all at once! Either way, it'll be well worth it!

We use our 1986 route from Baltimore to West Virginia, the one used on our first ride to Cass ever! We won't see Cass in this vid, but plenty of other RR spots to be had!

We begin on I-95 and head south to the DC area before picking up route 66 (NOT the classic one!) to Strasburg VA where we gain VA 55. Had a little trouble getting the camera to focus early on, but stick with the vid-it gets better!

VA/WV 55 is a fantastic mountain route! I edited in scenes from my 1986 vid (sorry for the somewhat obtrusive background music-no YT back then!) to show how things were then-and to show my first impressions of this route! Also one can see the differences in home video-then and now!

We'll pass through quaint towns along the way like Wardensville, Moorefield and Petersburg. We'll also check out points of interest like Champe Rocks, Seneca Rocks (affected by the gov't shutdown!), Harper's Country Store, Bowden Cave, and Elkins.

I've been through many of these small mountain towns.