Friday, August 22, 2008

Countdown!

Bikes are packed, GPS is loaded up. Boys are prepped.
We hope to hit the road about 7 am tomorrow, shouldn't be a problem.

Tomorrow is a fairly long day, with chances of rain, although I think we can stay pretty dry until we get close to our destination, Jackson, Mississippi.

Sunday will likely start out in the rain, it will be a nice leisurely ride up the Natchez Trace to Nashville Tennessee where we plan on spending two nights. I think we will get some effect of tropical storm Fay on this travel day.

After Nashville we will make our way to Bloomington, Illinois, and along the way we will get a rare "X" in Xenia, Il for our ABC's of touring.

Then its from Bloomington to 3 nights tenting in West Bend, Wisconson, just north of Milwaukee where we will use as our home base for the 25th HOG and 105th Harley Davidson Anniversaries.

Departure is Saturday after three days of camping on the ground with a nearly 500 mile ride to (hopefully) Jefferson City, Missouri.

Finally the last day, almost 600 miles, into home. Once we get home, with the mileage in around Milwaukee, we should have pretty much travelled approx 3000 miles.

Monday Labor Day will be a day of rest hopefully, although it does provide a buffer if we cannot complete the 1000+ miles in 2 days.

Here is the approximate map of our route.

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