Incipient Wanderlust

Well, looks like I am going to be able to take a looooong motorcycle trip down to Florida in a couple of weeks. Here's the tentative agenda:

6/11 - Home to DC, board Auto Train 180 miles riding
6/12 - Auto Train to Sanford, FL, ride to hotel in Melbourne, FL 855 miles train, 88.5 miles riding
6/12 - 6/15 Melbourne / Palm Bay / Orlando
6/15 - Ride Melbourne to roughly Anderson, SC 525 miles
6/16 - Anderson, SC to Knoxville, TN via The Dragon's Tail 190 miles
6/17 - Knoxville to Henderson, NC 382 miles
6/18 - Henderson to Home via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 427 miles

Total 1,885 miles riding, 855 train, total 2,740 miles (plus whatever wandering I do in my three days in Florida).

So far the longest one-day ride has been 235 miles, in mountains, without the air hawk seat cover. I'm aiming for 400-ish tomorrow.

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