Well, today is my birthday. I’m 47 years old today. Happy Birthday to me!
I got up early and went to see some of the other people that I rode with before they left. I went over to the hotel and saw Craig and Leigh Lewis. They were headed back home and towing the motorcycles. I guess they had enough riding for a while.
After I said goodbye to everyone, I called Chris Hoven and we arranged to meet at his apartment. He lives on the 12th floor of an apartment that overlooks Washington. It has a great view. We talked for a couple hours and caught up. It was really nice to see him.
Chris Hoven
I left Chris’s house and headed off towards Baltimore where I needed to exchange my tent at the Bass Pro shop there. They were really nice up there also. I just wanted to exchange the tent poles and they told me that I could exchange the entire tent, so I did. They were very nice at that Bass Pro Shop also.
I left Bass Pro and a few minutes after I left, it started to sprinkle. I decided that I would stop by one of the local hotels and check my e-mail and the weather and see what it looks like. Much to my surprise, there was rain all the way from Baltimore down to the Gulf of Mexico. I decided to wait a little while to see if the raid would let up at all. It did after a few hours, so I decided that I would make a run for Albany, NY and try to outrun the rain.
I made it to Pennsylvania and needed to take a short nap, so I stopped at one of the rest stops and got a quick 40 winks.
It started getting pretty cold, so I thought I would wait inside the rest area because it was heated. I think I’ll stay here until it gets light out.
