[RKDinOKC]

Yep, I've actually ridden my 10 speed bike on some of those roads when in HS. Went on vacation with my best friend's family. We were really into 10 speed biking and took our bikes.

Spent the first week at my grandma's in Pryor OK. and biked all around the town I was borned in. The next town, Salinad 22mi East where the best restaurant was, their big thing was Apple Dumplings for desert, Biked North 27 to the southern part of Grand Lake where my granddad used to have a boat house. Then off 21mi to the West to see the Will Rodgers museum in Claremore.

His parents picked us up at my Grandma's and took us to the Grand Lake resort where the Porsche Parade was held years later. Met his Dad's business partner and his family there. He had a daughter our age my friend was sweet on whom ended up his wife. They also took us over into Arkansas and rode our bikes all around a couple of fancy resorts over there. We would take off on a ride from one resort to another meeting his parents and the rest there.

There are two things that stand out in my memory from that vacation. One more than the other.

First was riding our 10 speeds we could get up enough speed that we could draft trucks and make incredibly good time. Once you got in a draft it was pretty easy to stay there. Especially on the back road two lane highways.

The most significant was at the Grand Lake Resort.

We were supposed to move from rooms to a condo. Friends Dad gave us the keys and condo number. We rode our bikes over while everyone else was packing to move. His Dad said he would be right over to check it out as well.

We let ourselves in and started checking the place out. It was NICE. We were in the large living area that had bedrooms on a second floor with a balcony overlooking the living area with two story windows looking out over the lake. We heard a noise and looked up. There on the balcony above us was a mid 20's blonde young lady...naked and drying her hair with a towel. We all three just stopped in our tracks and looked at each other.

Don't know how much time passed before his Dad walked in an saw the situation. He grabbed us two obviously aroused 15yo boys starting at a naked 20 something blonde and ushered us out apologizing to her. She never said a thing, or tried to cover herself up, just looked back and forth at us slow going thru the motions of drying her hair, And continued to just watch as his Dad ushered us out.

He followed us back to the room then went to the front office. He was at the reservation desk for some time. Instead of moving to the condo, or staying in the rooms, we left and went to a resort in Arkansas.