Sunday, the day after. GLGA hangover for sure. Got up yesterday @ 3 a.m., rode to D St. at 4:30 a.m., rode to the Mopac Trailhead, raced 141.5 miles & then rode home. Gathered downtown @ 9:00 p.m. but still managed to get to bed by 11:30 p.m. I'm old, I'm feeling it today. Cornbread, Skip, & myself rallied at noon today for a 3 hour journey up to the silo, NW 12th & Little Salt. Pace was subdued, just what the doctor ordered. Below: C-bread stops to remove a bee from inside his jersey...
The silo. This is a bizarre place, it looks like someone lives here. The gate is chained & locked, the guard shack has a satellite dish & christmas lights on it?
Looking south from the gate, gorgeous day...
Later,TK
2 comments:
I should join you guys on your adventures one of these days.
Once the Air Force decomissioned the silo, it and everything else in the area reverted back to the original property owner....the government leased all those sites from farmers, usually.
A lot of them are getting sold off to be refurbished into a residence, of all things. There's a few in NE that have been turned into cozy underground homes.
Of course, there are still dozens of Minuteman installations out by Sidney and Kimball that, to this day, are still active.
We should hook up. This guy we ride with sometimes said he was east of town on O St. & there is a site by a junkyard. He asked the junkyard guy if he could check things out & dude was like "go for it". I'll have to find out exactly where. Most likely another Atlas site.
My aunt is just a few miles from a Minuteman site NE of Kimball.
Later man,
TK
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