In Mount Vernon, Illinois. About 350 miles today that went pretty quick. No rain, no traffic, and temperatures that were pretty reasonable. The group we meeting wants to try to do 500 miles tomorrow. I think thats a bit optimistic for a group of 7, but we shall see.

Nothing exciting in Mount Vernon.

okay, day 1 was actually yesterday, the trip from Raleigh to Statesville. Not too bad aside from a thunderstorm around Burlington. The worse part was trying to carry two weeks of stuff on my bike, which is hardly setup for touring. I’ve done a week with just a tank bad before, but for some reason I ended up packing a lot more this time. Maybe it’s just seems like a longer trip since it’s to South Dakota and back.

I had a large back pack pretty heavily loaded up, that started to make my wrists a bit sore after a while. But aside from that, things seemed to go okay.

Time to finish packing I suppose, since I leave tomorrow afternoon. First stop is Statesville, then Friday off to somewhere in TN, then Saturday to somewhere, then Sunday to St Louis if were not there yet. Then it gets a little blurry after that.

A couple days to get to Sturgis, a couple days there, then the ride home with a few stops along the way.