Trip to Apple Works

Trip To Madison, IN
My wife and I took a motorcycle trip to Madison, IN in early June. This blog post is part of a series which presents each step of our journey. The story starts here.

We slabbed it from home to Franklin, IN, so for all practical purposes our trip began there.

I've spent enough time riding the roads south of Indianapolis that I knew my way. We gassed up in Franklin, and set out for Apple Works in Trafalgar.


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 IN-44 is a good road for riding. Though it runs through farm fields rather than along the banks of rivers, it has its share of sweepers. For a field crosser, it's not a bad road.

South on IN-135 to Trafalgar is more of a traditional field crosser. From Trafalgar south to Apple Works is a wandering county road with uneven pavement, no lines, and lined with trees. It's a beautiful and technically challenging route of about four miles.

Apple Works itself is an orchard and store featuring locally grown produce. There's plenty of parking . . . But the parking lot isn't flat nor paved, and presents some technical challenges of its own. It's good practice for Mrs. Rat, who hasn't ridden on much gravel in her career.