Okay....just about game time. Getting the moto packed up and the GPS files of all the stages for Tour of Missouri loaded.
We are set to depart Shelby 74 West around 6:15am Saturday morning. Stephen J is headed over from Charlotte to meet Don and I...gas and meet HoJo at the 74/I-26 intersection in Columbus and intersect Deano just as we get on 40 west. On to Knoxville for fuel and a biscuit...call Frank and head toward Nashville. Frank lives about an hour and a half west of Knoxville....so by 11am EST...all six of us should be making our way to our next gas stop...Music City. From Nashville, up through Kentucky, Illinois then due west to St. Louis and then cross Missouri with our final destination Kansas City.....about 920 from Shelby. It will be my longest day in the saddle if we don't run out of Saturday. There was discussion of signing up for the Iron Butt....but that really isn't the focus of the week. Maybe another trip.
Alright..this is the plan....this was the plan last year but Don's fuel line quick disconnect decided to start leaking at 4:30 am the morning of departure....we were looking for O-rings at Wal-Mart sometime around 5:30....and finally found what we needed at Lowes...7:45am Sunday morning!
Got out of Shelby about 8:30 and caught up with everybody just west of St Louis around 7:30pm....our planned destination. We were only 100 miles behind the rest of the group the whole day.....made some really good time with minimum stops.
Soooo....we will see what Saturday morning brings I guess. Hanna looks to be dawdling around and not going to be as big of an issue as first thought earlier in the week.....and Gustav is dropping in on the Canadian border now.
Stay tuned for how the ride turns out....will we go the distance?
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