Good stuff Rockfan!
Just now seeing this thread.
I grew up in Virginia and went riding quite a bit...thought it was fantastic!
Later in life, now in Florida, and much older I dated an optometrist in Naples who stabled her two (Neb and Lovey) in Ft Myers, so went riding with her a bit before we broke up.
We met when I had a tree branch scratch one of my eyes and went in to the Naples office of Eye Center of Florida to get treatment. That's not how to meet girls but sometimes it just works out that way......