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Bummer! Try going to your local Harley Davidson shop. They usually have a good selection of goggles. My husband has a couple of pair that really do a good job and look pretty cool. Ha! as cool as you can look with goggles on......

Diane

 Laurie Durgin <ladurgin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> You'd think ,on a beautiful 70 degree day in Ga. I'd get the saddle out and 
> hit the trail.So I thought, then I fed. And was attacked by the dreaded 
> yellow scum. I'ts April, everythings in bloom, especially the pines!!! 
> >aaarrggghhh< For those of you who aren't blessed to live in the land of 
> the SE : Every spring we get the "curse of the yellow scum". Yellow pine 
> pollen so large it covers everything, somewhat relational to Kudzu , scourge 
> of the South.
> It covers everything, you car can turn yellow in hours. You can write 
> messages in it it's so thick.You can see yellow dust clouds when the wind 
> blows.
> Well I am blind as a bat without my contact lenses. Guess what gets in your 
> eyes and under your contacts turning you into a blind weeping maniac. I had 
> to remove my contacts and carry them up from the barn.
> Nix on riding, luckily it is going to rain, which will wash it down some. 
> Never though
> t I'd want it to rain again.Hopefully I can ride till it builds 
> up again.
> \I wear sunglasses usually, contact ,treelimb protection.But they don't work 
> when it gets this bad.
> So what about goggles I thought?So they have a sport goggle with sunglass 
> type lenses?Ones that really seal out eh dust, pollen etc.?And fit 
> comfortabley under a helmet. (my sunglasses have to pass the helmet test.I 
> get more "pains from sunglasses" than I ever do with my helmet.
> Yes I have glasses, but the transition from contacts to glasses creates a 
> depth perception problem for a day or two.And they aren't sturdy enough for 
> tree limb encounters (really need to trim this trail Rascal).
> So Goggles anyone? Laurie, recovering from the pollen monster indoors:{
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