Trike Riders Int'l Trip Summary -- coming soon

I plan to post a summary of our recent road trip with a collection of photos...especially photos of some of the unusual trikes. If only I could find a few more hours in a day :)

Trike Riders Int'l Trip Day 8

250 miles to home.

There's no place like home.
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There's no place like home.
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There's no place like home.
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Repost Of Day 6

Something is awry with my original day 6 post.

Here's the gist:

350 miles in 10 hours does not a record make. But, our slow pace kept us behind a line of storms except for the last 10 miles.


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Trikes Riders Int'l Trip Day 7

450 miles in 12 long, long hours.

Plus side: short day tomorrow.

Did Deals Gap. Police everywhere. Nobody went fast. But it was fun.

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Trike Riders Int'l Trip Day 5

Definitely the hottest, most uncomfortable day of the trip so far. Mid 90s and high humidity are mutually exclusive to comfort on or off a bike.

More trikes have shown up and none of the hotels are without trikes in their parking lots.

It appears my wife and I are the youngest couple attending. There's a message in that. I wonder what it is?

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Trike Riders Int'l Day 4

Maybe about 300 trikes (?) on the first day. The vendor turn out was less than expected. We checked them out, and then hit the road for a ride in the area.

We road on the flatest, straightest, most anti-motorcycle roads we've ever ridden. One stretch was even without other vehicular traffic--eerie.

More trikers are expected tomorrow, the first full day of planned events.

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Trike Riders Int'l Trip Day 3

Can't use rain as an excuse for the 9:30 start today. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful morning for riding. After 8.5 hours, we rode the 305 miles to Sikeston. All total, we've traveled 960 miles through VA, WV, MD, OH, IN, IL, and MO.

Under a vivid blue sky, we zoomed along the southern border of IN amidst fields of preprocessed ethanol. After passing one field, I noticed two deer on an intercept course with us if we maintained our speed. I signaled to slow down but my wife had already seen them and was braking. They noticed us just as the got to the edge of the road and turned back the way they came.

Tomorrow the Rally begins.

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Int'l Trike Rally Day 2

Waiting for the rain to stop, we got off to a late start at 9:30 am. Nine hours later, we covered 335 miles to Clarksville, IN. We side stepped rain by changing our route to first head west and then south rather than the other way around. The nominal distance this route change added more than paid off by staying dry.

The run across Ohio was not as picturesque as yesterday. This was offset a bit by slightly lower temperatures.

We're looking forward to rolling into Sikeston tomorrow.

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Int'l Trike Rally Trip Day 1

Off at 8:30am, we rode Rte 50 from WMA thru West VA to MD back to W VA to OH where we arrived at about 6:00pm. 321 miles, 72.2 max speed, 44.1 mph avg.

It's nice to see rural areas still exist. It's nice to know curvy mountain roads are still being repaired. If only it didn't tie up traffic so.

Time to crash. Planning about 350 miles tomorrow.

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Test Of Lifecast App

This is a test of the Lifecast app on the iPod touch. If all is well, I'll be using it to update the blog during the trip to Sikeston.

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