Well, after many false starts this week the journey has begun. Yep, I tried to ride out of Ann Arbor earlier in the week taking advantage of a favorable weather pattern. My bike would have nothing to do with it though. It had developed an electrical short that knocked out most of the electronics. It took two dealerships many hours to track down the shorts, two of them. During this time my plans changed several times based on the weather only to end up back at the original plan of riding from Deal's Gap.
And that's how it began at about 10:30 this morning I rode south through the Gap. I stopped at the store on the North Carolina side and then bid Amy and Tucker a final good bye. I plugged New Orleans into the GPS and set off. I diligently followed every twist and curve the GPS threw at me only to find myself riding right back to through Deal' Gap abut an hour later. *WTF* Yep, the first hour of my trip was GPS gibberish and that have yet to figure out and it kept me from making it to New Orleans. As such, I changed plans a bit and decided to ride higher so that I could still drop down into Big Bend when I got to Texas.
That said, the riding in Tennessee was awesome as usual and the GPS error gave me even more of the experience. If you love curves it's really one of the motorcycling wonders of the world. The weather was cool, but nice. The roads had dried up early from the vicious storms that had moved through the nite before (think Atlanta Tornado).
It's nice to be riding again!
