We had really poor riding weather all of December. I probably didn’t get in a hundred miles all month. Finally, on New Year’s Eve, we had a decent forecast. I had been wanting to do the Sugar Creek Route. It’s a 122 mile route in the western Oklahoma red dirt. It was put together by a group of overlanders from the Oklahoma Exploration Routes group.
I added several side loops through areas that I wanted to see, which added about another forty miles to it. It was about three hours away so I had to make it an overnighter. I decided to drive up on Friday evening, get a room, then do an all-day ride on Saturday.
I left the motel about 9:15 and had a few miles of asphalt before reaching dirt roads. There were a lot of wind farms in this area. We don’t have much of these around where I live.
What’s cool out here is that the roads are dirt and sand. Back home they are gravel. The traction was excellent. Many of the roads are in deep cut sections, back home they just go over or around the hills.
I followed the bypassed and abandoned Old Hwy. 81 to this bridge.
I added several side loops through areas that I wanted to see, which added about another forty miles to it. It was about three hours away so I had to make it an overnighter. I decided to drive up on Friday evening, get a room, then do an all-day ride on Saturday.
I left the motel about 9:15 and had a few miles of asphalt before reaching dirt roads. There were a lot of wind farms in this area. We don’t have much of these around where I live.
What’s cool out here is that the roads are dirt and sand. Back home they are gravel. The traction was excellent. Many of the roads are in deep cut sections, back home they just go over or around the hills.
I followed the bypassed and abandoned Old Hwy. 81 to this bridge.