Making Miles

When you have been on Newfoundland time and Atlantic time, when you get back to Eastern time, everything is earlier. We have been waking up around 6:30 or so without any alarms, so this morning I was up before the sun and was NOT going to get going yet. I tossed and turned for a while and finally, Johnny started moving so I got up. Even with breakfast at the hotel, we were on the road at 7 AM. This was a good thing.

I have to say how much I love GPS's. It makes getting around SO much easier. But, we were off one highway and onto another and if you know anything about the northeast, you know almost every highway is a tollway. Between the previous night and this morning, I just felt like I was hemorrhaging cash! Plus, when you are on a motorcycle, you can't just leave your money out handy because it will blow away. So, stopping means placing the bike on the kickstand, standing up and getting your wallet, getting some money and perhaps replacing the change, replacing the wallet, then starting the bike. Not a super fast operation. But, we got better.

The weather started out nice, if not a bit warm compared to what we HAD been riding in. The sun was shining and we continued on. Eventually, in Pennsylvania when we stopped for lunch, it was getting seriously cloudy. Johnny and I put on our rain suits just in case and were we glad we did. For the rest of the day, it was raining off and on, seemingly more on. Sometimes, it was really coming down. Then it would sucker you into a sense of complacency and look like it might get better ... then it would start to rain again. I feel bad for the woman at the desk of the hotel because every place I stood or touched became a puddle. She was very gracious about it, but still, I felt a little bad.

We ended up in Troutville, Virginia and rode almost 735 miles. If we can do that again tomorrow, we will be home on Monday night. Pray for nice and not hot weather.