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.