If you are following the news, you might have seen the reports on Hurricane Delta reaching the US. I was East of it and didn't want to get into massive rainfall on my way west, so the motto today was: get west of the storm.
And that's pretty much what I did:
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| Day 25 Route |
I had this as my guide:
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| NOAA Screenshot for Delta |
The NOAA app gave me a prediction for the storm path for Thursday and Friday and I planned my ride accordingly.
And since I already had quite a distance to ride, I decided to turn it into a full 1000 mile day. I didn't get the witnesses to make an IronButt Saddle Sore 1000 (1000 miles in 24 hours) ride, but that wasn't my goal anyways, I don't need the "badge", it was just fun to complete the 1000 miles. I had done this distance before, but that's a long time ago.
Here are the statistics:
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| Day 25 Ride Statistics |
It was actually fairly easy. I left at 5:40 in the morning in Alexandria and arrived around midnight in Lebanon, MO (I got two hours back due to time zones). Had a good lunch break and most fuel stops turned into a short break. And since I was pushing the bike on the freeway I had to fill up quite a few times, six to be precise. Could have been okay with five, but I didn't "optimize" it, instead just filled when I felt like it.
And since I didn't stop much, I only have one photo from the day:
Wow, 1/3 through the country in one single hopp! Watching you moving on the SpotWalla map I first thought you would be stopping in St. Louis. But you didn't. Then I saw that there is a town called Bourbon along your route and thought that this would be a great place to stop. ;-) After you swept through that place also I looked at the distance you had done so far: 940ish miles. Aha - he is on a Saddle Sore 1000 mission, right? No, or kind of. Well, you did it, but don't have the proper documentation to proof it. Bummer! Congrats anyways!!
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't planned as a Saddle Sore 1000, so I didn't really follow all the rules. No problem though, since I consider the 1000 miles in 24h not really hard. It's easy enough to ride that, but it gets hard to keep going the next day and the day after and so on, like during the Ironbutt Rally or a CC50 (Coast to Coast in 50 hours or less).
DeleteNow I get it why people are doing this saddlesore thing, they are trying to escape a hurricane. It's all making sense to me now.
ReplyDeleteLOL ... right.
DeleteHi Guido, nachdem ich von Andrea erfahren habe, wo du dich gerade herumtreibst, habe ich in einem Rutsch deine Berichte der letzten Wochen durchgelesen. Was für ein Ritt! Du hattest mit Rauchwolken und starken Seitenwinden zu kämpfen, dann mit Bettwanzen und Ohrenschmerzen, mit Hitze und langen, langweiligen Streckenabschnitten, bist dann aber auf dem Schwanz des Drachen geritten und hast Virginia Beach überlebt. Jetzt weißt du, weshalb wir dort nie waren :-D Wie war's denn in Alexandria? Warst du nochmal in Historic Downtown unterwegs? Hab Fotos davon vermisst. Waren wir da eigentlich gemeinsam? Ich erinnere mich nicht mehr. Ich weiß nur noch, wie wir in DC unerwartet Barack Obama gesehen hatten und wir an diesem Tag entschieden zuviel gelaufen waren ;-). Aber knapp 1.000 Meilen in einem Rutsch zu fahren - RESPEKT! Ich hoffe, deine Fahrt verläuft weiterhin gut und du kannst auf deinem Rückweg noch viele spannende Eindrücke sammeln.
ReplyDeleteJa, es war durchaus schon eine ereignisreiche Reise mit Höhen und Tiefpunkten. Alles in allem war es bisher super und ich hoffe, dass es auch noch so weitergeht.
DeleteDie Tour ist mehr als Motorradtour geplant und daher habe ich mir wenig Zeit genommen, in den Städten oder Parks zu laufen oder mit Photografie zu verbringen. Dafür ist eine andere Art des Reisens einfach besser geeignet.
In Alexandria waren damals nur wir drei unterwegs: Du - Ingrid, Markus und ich. Und die Begegnung mit Barack Obama ist nach wie vor unvergessen! Das waren noch Zeiten!! ...
ReplyDeleteJa, das waren noch Zeiten, als der größte Skandal in seiner Amtszeit sein heller Sommeranzug war ... :-)
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