Well Day one is DONE. This was our first and only marathon day, at least on the super slab. Jenn and I were up at 3:30 AM in order to meet the Martin Bros. over at the Waffle House in Cartersville at 5 AM. We got there a little early and ordered coffee while we were waiting. Danile and Russ showed up shortly there after, so we all ordered breakfast while we waited for Jeff. A text message was received saying he was leaving home now about the time we were finishing eating. It was decided we would press on and meet up with him in outside of Chattanooga. We stopped at Chicamauga (sp) Battlefield on the way and took some pictures. A lot for crossed signals and missed communications, but at the end of it all we dinally hooked the whole team up and we were on our way as a group non e the worse for wear. Danile had laid out a route that kept us off the interstate for most of the day, which made it a pretty enjoyable ride. As the day wore on it got pretty hot, some places up into the mid 90's. Something happened with my Bushnell GPS during the day as I started getting the live feed weather services on my map and I could see that we were surrounding by lightning strikes most of the afternoon, but we never encountered any. However, we did run thru about 1/2 hour of heavy rains late in the day, but all-in-all, we got thru the day pretty much unscathed. That is except for Russ and Jeff's tires. As you can see the tires have lost a a bunch of lugs off these brand new Shenko tires! So it looks like they will both searching for new rear tires after we get to Pryor Ok. today. We finally finished the 700+ mile day at around 7 PM and as usual settled into a local pub called the Fox and Hound for nourishment an mead!
Well Day one is DONE. This was our first and only marathon day, at least on the super slab. Jenn and I were up at 3:30 AM in order to meet the Martin Bros. over at the Waffle House in Cartersville at 5 AM. We got there a little early and ordered coffee while we were waiting. Danile and Russ showed up shortly there after, so we all ordered breakfast while we waited for Jeff. A text message was received saying he was leaving home now about the time we were finishing eating. It was decided we would press on and meet up with him in outside of Chattanooga. We stopped at Chicamauga (sp) Battlefield on the way and took some pictures. A lot for crossed signals and missed communications, but at the end of it all we dinally hooked the whole team up and we were on our way as a group non e the worse for wear. Danile had laid out a route that kept us off the interstate for most of the day, which made it a pretty enjoyable ride. As the day wore on it got pretty hot, some places up into the mid 90's. Something happened with my Bushnell GPS during the day as I started getting the live feed weather services on my map and I could see that we were surrounding by lightning strikes most of the afternoon, but we never encountered any. However, we did run thru about 1/2 hour of heavy rains late in the day, but all-in-all, we got thru the day pretty much unscathed. That is except for Russ and Jeff's tires. As you can see the tires have lost a a bunch of lugs off these brand new Shenko tires! So it looks like they will both searching for new rear tires after we get to Pryor Ok. today. We finally finished the 700+ mile day at around 7 PM and as usual settled into a local pub called the Fox and Hound for nourishment an mead!
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