Today I will ride around
Bahia Blanca on Highway 33 and then continue North to General Villegas. The day
started out cloudy and pretty much stayed that way all day. I was going to put
on my rain suit just in case it rained but thought I would take a chance it
wouldn’t. Mostly hoping the sky would brighten up and get sunny. The countryside
was mostly rural and again with wide open spaces that always make you hope your
car or motorcycle don’t develop mechanical issues. All day looking forward it
was clouds and getting darker clouds. I’m setting on my bike saying to myself
can you just hold off on the rain for another 20 Miles / 32 Kilometers. All the
signs were there that I was going to get wet, the shoulder of the road was wet
with standing water. A few Miles / Kilometers down the road my hopes were
dashed. I met a car with their windshield wipers on intermittent and then a
truck with its windshield wipers going. I less than a minute I had rain drops
on my helmet visor. Of course, there is a positive side to all this. The
earlier rain and traffic had washed all the field mud off the road. That greasy
mud makes the road surface slippery as ice and very hazardous. Especially if
the mud is packed .375 Inch / .393 Centimeter thick. At least for me anyway.
So, I ride off and on rain as I continue north. The rain is
continuing to get heavier as I drive north. I hate when my AeroStitch Riding
Suit gets wet. Its not the getting wet part that’s irritating……but how to dry
it out without air conditioning. I kept counting down the kilometers till I
reached the town of General Villegas where I was planning on staying. I knew
from looking at it online the night before what the hotel looked like and it
was easy to find. The hotel wasn’t more than 400 Yards / 400 meters off High
Way 33 on the road into the town. I whipped in there and got out of the rain.
They had a room at a reasonable rate and I checked in. I got my bike under the
roof next to my room so the bags wouldn’t get any wetter. This was my kind of a
hotel. You give them the money and the deal is done.
I unloaded my bike. I got my AeroStitch hung up so it could
dry. I turned on the fan to help the drying process. I ate supper at the gas
station because they sold hamburgers and french fries. It must have really rained
earlier in the day because some of the mud puddles were 6 Inch / 15 Centimeters
deep and 2 Yards / 2 Meters in diameter. I have been watching the weather
forecast for Rosario, Argentina. For the last two days it was rain and thunder
showers. From all indications I think the weather forcast was correct. I Skyped
Mary and then went to bed.
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