where did you TAKE your Tenere today?

[eemsreno]

Out for a ride today. My boy told me to check out some historical sight.


It was back in the woods behind a hog confinement.






Then I road back in to an old bridge over the Fox River.






A quick 200 more miles before winter.

 

[Nikolajsen]

Åh man...you have so many old houses around (from a number of others pictures)
Doesn't anyone own the land? (big or small)
It does not seems like the land around the houses is being farm or kept in any way....
Nice weather, nice pictures

 

[Johnwesley]

took the alternate route home from town today.

 

[eemsreno]

Åh man...you have so many old houses around (from a number of others pictures)
Doesn't anyone own the land? (big or small)
It does not seems like the land around the houses is being farm or kept in any way....
Nice weather, nice pictures

I think most of these old homes are abandon because the land is bought up by bigger corporate farms and the house would become useless that far from any town where someone living in it could have a job. Small family farms are a thing of the past around here. Kids grow up and leave the farms for cities with jobs and when the folks get old it's sold off to the big farms.
There are way more old abandon homes around that I don't photograph just because they aren't cool looking.
Here is one I took last week riding with a friend.

 

[eemsreno]

I have another abandon house story.
When we was kids just up the road was an abandon house near the mostly
abandon town of Dahlonega , that rumor's from the old guys living around Dahlonega said Ale Capone would stop in there during the prohibition years.
We snuck in through a window and in the house was a still with weird coils of tubing and tall skinny bottles all kinds of cool stuff that went with distilling alcohol.
In the basement, more like a seller under the house was a great big brass scale. .One of the kids with us told his older brother and the scale turned up in a pawn shop in the nearby town.
Down the road a mile from that house was another abandon house up on a hill down a long lane. It was known as a teenage party house. They would just throw their empty beer cans down the basement stairs and the cans reached clear to the ceiling und up the stairs so there was no posable way to even go down there.

 

[holligl]

Out for a ride today. My boy told me to check out some historical sight.
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It was back in the woods behind a hog confinement.
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Then I road back in to an old bridge over the Fox River.
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A quick 200 more miles before winter.

Did you ride over that bridge?

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[Sierra1]

Did you ride over that bridge?

HE probably did. . . . no way in hell my fat ass would have tried. Looked waaaay to flimsy.

 

[eemsreno]

Did you ride over that bridge?

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Actually the bridge looks like it is still in great shape. but they removed some planks on both ends and on one end they used a backhoe and dug out the approach. Or I would have.

 

[Nikolajsen]

I think most of these old homes are abandon because the land is bought up by bigger corporate farms and the house would become useless that far from any town where someone living in it could have a job. Small family farms are a thing of the past around here. Kids grow up and leave the farms for cities with jobs and when the folks get old it's sold off to the big farms.
There are way more old abandon homes around that I don't photograph just because they aren't cool looking.
Here is one I took last week riding with a friend.

Makes sence
But then I don't understand why the big corporate farms, don't tear down the house and farm the land.
But maybe the cost of tearing down the house, is bigger than the output of the land where the house stand? (at least for a few years)

 

[holligl]

Makes sence
But then I don't understand why the big corporate farms, don't tear down the house and farm the land.
But maybe the cost of tearing down the house, is bigger than the output of the land where the house stand? (at least for a few years)

Too much time, effort, and expense. They used to get burned and bulldozed, but intentional burning is not environmentally acceptable any more. My brother used to train with the volunteer fire dept using them, not any more. If you have to haul all that stuff to a land fill, it's going to cost you a pretty penny, if they will even take it. Minimal acreage lost to let it stand, and program the gps guidance steer the equipment around it!

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[holligl]

Dorothy's (Wizard of Oz) Kansas house, Liberal KS. Literally took it. Nice little museum there too.

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[Sierra1]

. . . . My brother used to train with the volunteer fire dept using them, not any more. . . .

We used to practice breaching doors on the old houses before the FD got to burn them down. Knocking a sold wooden door down with a hunk of steel is second to only one other thing. . . .

 

[gv550]

Dorothy's (Wizard of Oz) Kansas house, Liberal KS. Literally took it. Nice little museum there too.

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Looks like you are enroute to Arizona. I wish I was as well, but not going to happen this season, this will be my first Canadian winter in 18 years, not impressed so far! Have a safe journey.

 

[eemsreno]

Another Super Tenere day for riding, "the best"


Luray, Missouri.




I have no idea if I have taken a picture here before, If so forgive me.




I stopped in front of a really cool house with the roof rotting and caving in and the siding rotting off to get a picture with my bike, Then I realized someone was living in there. I got out of the joint fast.

Stopped for lunch at a nice lake.


And with bad weather supposedly coming, this might be my last picture of the year .
I never reset the average MPG, that's a nice year end average.

 

[gunslinger_006]

Man that is incredible mileage.


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[Sierra1]

51mpg is easy, as long as you stay off of the highway. Now. . . . the 238k. . . . that's a whole 'nuther matter.

 

[holligl]

Looks like you are enroute to Arizona. I wish I was as well, but not going to happen this season, this will be my first Canadian winter in 18 years, not impressed so far! Have a safe journey.

Yes, gonna miss you this year! Have fun in the snow. Maybe need to invest in a snow mobile! Just a reminder, you still owe me that Goldwing ride! Maybe next year. I do think at least some of our Canadian neighbors did make it.

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[gv550]

Yes, gonna miss you this year! Have fun in the snow. Maybe need to invest in a snow mobile! Just a reminder, you still owe me that Goldwing ride! Maybe next year. I do think at least some of our Canadian neighbors did make it.

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Yes, Canadians are permitted to fly to USA for the winter, but not drive across the border towing a motorcycle. For $2500, there is an enterprising outfit providing a service of trailering snowbird vehicles across the line and then flying persons across in a helicopter. I did think about that, but only for a minute, we’ll stay put until the border opens and hopefully the vaccine eliminates the risk. Have fun riding the trails and post lots of pictures. Goldwing is a keeper so the offer will remain.

 

[Nikolajsen]

@eemsreno : WOW someone living in there.
Funny , and sad at the same time
(looks like a very fine house on the first picture

@holligl : got it, thank you

 

[Tenman]

Too much time, effort, and expense. They used to get burned and bulldozed, but intentional burning is not environmentally acceptable any more. My brother used to train with the volunteer fire dept using them, not any more. If you have to haul all that stuff to a land fill, it's going to cost you a pretty penny, if they will even take it. Minimal acreage lost to let it stand, and program the gps guidance steer the equipment around it!

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That sounds exactly like it is down here. Farming changed in the 70’s with giant equipment and chemicals and sent almost all farm workers to the new projects built for them. Houses got buried where they stood. Some of them mysteriously burned.