Fall 2025 Mutton Run to Western Kentucky

[Bill Hagan]

[First, an apology about the largish typeface font size.  I write such posts in an email first, then cut & paste to forums.  I have never quite figured out the protocol here to make my "email" posts appear the same as "standard posts." Yes, I see the "Size" options, and select "Default," but still fail.  As a geezer who frequently almost always misplaces my  reading glasses, I don't mind the larger print, but regret if that bothers you.  ]

 

Three Muttoneers — a smaller group than usual — rode for mutton at this fall’s church picnic at St. Mary of the Woods in Whitesville, Kentucky, last weekend.  These are semiannual events, usually held on the Memorial Day Sunday in late May and the last Sunday in September.

 

This time, Bob W., rode down from Rochester, N.Y., to the Moto Grappa on his Moto Guzzi V7 Classic.  Then, he and I rode to Maysville, Ky., where Scott M. rode from LIma, Ohio, on his Piaggio P3 to join us for the rest of the trip to “Mutton Land,” Daviess County.  While in Whitesville for the picnic, another Guzzisti, Rick C., of Celina, Tenn. -- @Goofman here -- did a day trip to join us before heading home again on the same day.

 

The pix of this trip always seem to show that all we did was to eat, drink, and be merry.  We certainly did that.  😊

 

Yet, we regret not having more “on the road” photos.  Having once nearly committed accidental suicide by fiddling with a handlebar-mounted camera, I have since stopped taking such pix from the terror that followed the disaster I was lucky enough to escape that day.

 

OK, if it must be disclosed, I also gave up on-the-move photos after trashing a Nikon DLSR when I did not stop soon enough to get it covered before the rain got to its $600 innards.  😱. [Yes, thank you, I know that one may “harvest: stills from Go-Pros and clones, but I’m not going there, either.]

 

That said, I do miss the nice shots, e.g., this, taken in the Wisconsin Driftless area c.2012 …

 

 

… but not enough to go back to doing it, so these will have to do for my photo memories and your travelogue … unless, of course, and quite understandably, you leave now! 😄

 

Here are two samples … 

 

Bob at launch - 

 

 

Across the Ohio River from Maysville, Ky.

 

 

 

… the rest at the link, below.

 

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As usual with my smugmug sets, the link opens in “landscape collage,” so you don’t have to go to the larger pix of the slideshow.  

Hovering your cursor over individual photos reveals the underlying captions.

 

If you use the slideshow version, the pix are obviously bigger and all captions appear.  But, inexplicably (to me), unless you manually move the slideshow along instead of letting it roll automatically, the captions might disappear unless you leave cursor in place in lower left corner.  I’m a Luddite. 😉

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https://bill-and-kathi.smugmug.com/Mutton-Run-Fall-2025/n-CQqNwp

 

Bill

Edited Friday at 04:46 PM by Bill Hagan

[Speedfrog]

7 hours ago, Bill Hagan said:

[First, an apology about the largish typeface font size.  I write such posts in an email first, then cut & paste to forums.  I have never quite figured out the protocol here to make my "email" posts appear the same as "standard posts."

If you really want/need to standardize the font on a C&P post, look at the bottom of the post/reply window after you paste your text, a black banner will appear with the option to keep the text as "Rich Text" or paste it as "Plain Text" instead. Click on the latter and Voilà, your post has now been standardized . . . 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:39 AM by Speedfrog

[Bill Hagan]

12 hours ago, Speedfrog said:

If you really want/need to standardize the font on a C&P post, look at the bottom of the post/reply window after you paste your text, a black banner will appear with the option to keep the text as "Rich Text" or paste it as "Plain Text" instead. Click on the latter and Voilà, your post has now been standardized . . . 

 

"If you really want/need to standardize the font on a C&P post ..."

On the merits, thanks.  When a teen grandkid isn't handy, it's nice to draw on the skills of members here.  

Seriously, thanks.  I'll  try that next time ... if I remember.  

Bill

[Bill Hagan]

Oh ... meant to add this, but had another dotage attack. 

While I appreciate the hints on getting around the C&P issue, it is nonetheless interesting to me that this is the only forum of the (way too many) that I frequently post in, that poses this issue.  No biggie, of course, but odd to me.

Back to cleaning house here; Kathi returns from a "shower" in Philadelphia tomorrow; I have converted what she left as pristine into a set for a remake of Animal House.  

Bill

[PJPR01]

It seems that there is 1 missing Carabiniero...as they always work in pairs!  Great pics as always!

[Kevin_T]

It's good to see your back in the saddle again Bill! To tell the truth averaging over 50 miles per hour on back roads is impressive. When planning a trip using all backroads with all my stops I normally figure about 40 mph average. Gives me an idea of saddle time.

I got to try some of that mutton one of these days 

[Bill Hagan]

12 hours ago, Kevin_T said:

It's good to see your back in the saddle again Bill! To tell the truth averaging over 50 miles per hour on back roads is impressive. When planning a trip using all backroads with all my stops I normally figure about 40 mph average. Gives me an idea of saddle time.

I got to try some of that mutton one of these days 

Kevin,

Look forward to you joining the Muttoneers! 

Whether yo join us from a launch from the Moto Grappa (c.450 backroads miles from Pinckney) or meet us in Owensboro (444 ditto), it's childplay for you given your run to and from Tellico Plains!

Mutton is an acquired taste, but as I tell folks, "it's acquired me." 

That day's average speed surprised me, too, as I generally do as you do, i.e., loiter at c.40mph average on backroads.

In this case, I smelled the barn and wanted to get home before dark. Moreover, while some of the roads I took were pretty technical and not made for rapid riding -- at least at my age and skill level!  ; the stretch of U.S. 50 from Grafton, W.V., to vic. Romney, W.V., comes immediately to mind ...

 

 

 

... there were sections that permitted orange-suit speeds now and then.

Must go.  Dentist appointment!

Bill