The original plan was to ride to Vermont for a BMW rally. However, 100F every day and 64 years on my old bones conspired to cut it short. After three days and 1200 miles, I’d had my fill. On the way back I played around a bit, for a total of 2600 miles in six days. Not the stuff of iron butts, but not too shabby all in all.
Well, you learn something on every trip. This time it was that the Bonneville indeed makes a perfectly fine touring bike with a small screen on it and some little hard bags for the expensive stuff. I also learned that the stock seat is only good for four days and that 100F is no good at my age no matter what kind of bike it may have been.
I can now tell you how to get from Dallas to Canton, Ohio, using nothing but US highways or smaller, but with every mile of it being straight, flat and boring. On the other hand, US 62 from Canton to Columbus is 135 miles of pure delight. The Natchez Trace is very nice, but not for 450 miles. I turned off after 85 to find some lunch, remaining then on regular roads the rest of the day.
Was going to take plenty of photos, but it was simply too hot to work up any enthusiasm for that. The one below is on the Nashville end of the Trace, about 60 miles down. The second shot is a small town in southern Kentucky (maybe northern Tenn, I forget which). Anyone up for a ride in October or so?
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