I got up at the wee hours of o-dark-thirty to take a ride down to Rainbow for the weekly MEBC breakfast. The temps were mid '60s and it was overcast as I started down the road. As I drove away from the house, I felt a couple of drops of water an my face as I hadn't lowered the visor yet. I thought, not a problem, it might get a bit misty or something, but shouldn't be a biggy. All went well until I turned south in Corona and the mist was getting mistier. It never had gotten very heavy and the only problems was the visor getting dribbled on and cutting visibility a bit. And the headlight was vibrating downward cutting the light's viewing distance ever shorter! As I got out of Corona I noticed the always terrible I-15 traffic was barely crawling along. It was a solid line of traffic as far as I could see. No sweat for me, I'm going south!
Or so I thought! As I continued South, the mist continued to get a little heavier and by the time I was 40 miles from the house with about 25 miles still to the destination, it was time to give up this trek! I got off at Lake Street just North of Lake Elsinore an turned back North on Temescal Canyon, a little road that parallels the freeway back to Corona. Remembering what the traffic looked like on the freeway, the canyon looked like a better deal. It's really not much of a challenge, but it is a little twistier than the freeway and not lighted, and with the headlight not stating quite where it belonged and the mist being a more like a light rain, the visibility was suffering a bit. A car came up kinda behind me, but really wasn't going any faster than I was, but seeing as how I as slowing down a bit more than usual to get around some of the turns, I let him by, which made things a lot easier for me as I could easily follow him and see where he was going!
The rain mostly quit when I got back to Corona and the traffic was running fairly well as I got within a couple of miles from the ramp to the 91, so I jumped back on the ramp and split lanes down to the 91. Then the traffic was parked again, as usual for that time of day, so I got off at the next exit and came around the back way to Carbon Canyon to the house. It was misting off and on on that route bet never got too bad. Carbon Canyon was a bitch to begin with as that's where all the stray traffic from the overloaded 91 goes. but I made fairly decent time as I made a few passes that might've been frowned on by the local Gendarmerie. But it probably saved me 15 minutes over a 10 mile route!
Well, missed my breakfast, but didn't get particularly wet, the flyscreen did a good job of keeping it off me! I'll have to give it a shot next week.
Bare