Motorcycle camping at Shawnee

I loaded a bunch of my backpacking gear into the bags on the Versys and put poor Emo dog in the kennel for the weekend. Took US35 to SR41, a twisty, pretty road, went to West Union and hit SR125, another nice road, and arrived at Shawnee State Park. I couldn't go in the campground because it was filled with children for the pumpkin festival, so I rode around for an hour. Here is the bike all loaded up at Picnic Point. Click on the pictures for a bigger view.

I finally went back to the campground after an hour riding around, and set up camp. This is a nice campsite a short way from the campground road.

Up on Picnic Point, I took a picture of some of the trees in color. That's Kentucky in the background, the river is down there.

I got to ride gravel roads a lot, the weather was perfect for the amount of gear I had on Sunday. With my new tires, this bike eats up gravel roads. Only a newbie, in short order I was comfortably putting around on the gravel, enjoying the trees. On some of the other paved roads around the forest, where there are small communities, I was chased by several dogs. I think the dogs and I both enjoyed it.

There are several overlooks at Shawnee, here I am parked at one of them.

I love this motorcycle, it is like my Subaru, it isn't the very best at anything, but it does everything well, and it does all I want quite well and quite enjoyably. Aside from being very cold in the tent at night because I brought the wrong sleeping bag, it was a great trip.