I appear to have made it home alive. I belive the total mileage was somewhere in the 4300 mile range. I seemed to have filled up the entire capacity of the memory card on my camera. Maybe theres actually a decent pic or two to post.

Just outside of Knoxville, TN (home of the 1982 Worlds Fair). Only about 2.5 hours from my parents place, and could of already been there if we had kept riding. But it seemed like a good time to stop. Plus, I wanted to stop and tighten up the chain on my bike. Probabaly would of been fine, but I got paranoid.

My thought that the wind would die down as we got into TN and KY proved to be incorrect. More wind.

Almost home. Taking it pretty easy the last couple days.

“I talk to the wind
I tell it to shut up.
The wind does not hear.
The wind cannot hear.”

In Mount Vernon, Illinois tonight. A touch over 400 miles today. Still lots of wind, though hopefully we are mostly out of it now.

Went and saw my dads plane at the Combat Air Museum. It was back in the repair/clean up portion of the Museum, which was interestingly still open to the public. Talked a while with the curator, gave him some photos we had. Got plenty of pics and some video.

Some interesting planes in the collection, including an F-14, a F-4, a F-105, and a sky crane. And a cross sectioned Wasp Major. Thats a big engine.

Ride was mostly uneventful. Should cross Kentucky and most of Tennessee tomorrow.