Monday, June 14

Yes, I know that's not the date, but that IS the date I'm talking about. I figured that I would talk about our trip one day at a time in order to create more posts, and hopefully more thorough posts about our vacation for you. So, here it is...

Day 1 of our Vacation:

We left Monday morning around 7am. By this time, I'd already gone to Curves for the final booty-camp weigh-in and was welcomed home with chocolate muffins that Duane had picked up for breakfast. Needless to say, we were NOT planning on sticking to the diet this week!

At 7am it was overcast, but dry outside. By 7:20 we'd found drizzle. It stayed like that on/off all the way to Mason City, IA. We stopped there to tank up, return a bad cord for a com. system, and to adjust my ear pieces in my helmet. We were wet, and chilled...and wondering if the whole trip would be that way.

Fortunately for us, after Mason City, things cleared up. The drizzle went away and the sun started peaking out. It was a lovely day for a ride. A long ride. A VERY long ride. We stopped at an Arby's for lunch, and later a McDonald's for supper. The (just over) half-way point to our destination was Kearney, NE at 580 miles. We blew past it. We did another entire jump...all the way to North Platte, NE. 712 miles on Day 1. For those that don't know it, it's not the butt that hurts so much on the back of a Harley...it's the top of the inner thigh.

We stayed at a motel that was a bit of a dive and in a slightly scary part of town, but it was a good location to the interstate and was easy access. The rooms were also clean and there was another rider there that night so the bikes were together in the lot (and right outside our window!). From this point, I stretched out and went for a walk to the gas station to pick up a snack. It was a fairly early crash that night because we wanted to be on the road again early Tuesday.

I don't have any good pictures from this day because...well...because it was spent mostly in Iowa, and Nebraska...there wasn't much to see. Pictures will come with future posts, I promise. Day 2 coming soon, stop back for more!