Returned from a great riding experience!
Left Tuesday around 4pm and made it to Roanoke VA around 10:30pm. Temperature was about 38F. Fingers and toes got cold. I learned to excercise my fingers and toes to keep them warm while riding. These after market gloves suck! The rest of my body stayed very warm.
Stayed at a sleezy 8 motel in Roanoke and walked to the local Waffle House the next morning. Decided to wait out a coming storm and finally departed @ 8:30am. I had a 6+ hour ride ahead of me. About an hour after leaving Roanoke it began to rain. O.A.T. was 40F. Rain increased to pouring as I rode through Greensboro and had been for about 2 hours south of it. Stopped to fuel up and get a bite to eat. It was cold and extremely windy. I ate, wrung out my rain soaked gloves and departed. In all I rode through about 3-4 hours of hard rain. It finally cleared up and my last couple of hours were relatively dry. I made it to our cabin in Myrtle Beach S.C. at 3:30pm. 10.5 hours of riding and 638 miles covered. Average speed was 66MPH. Top speed was 112MPH. As recorded by my GPS.
Had a great thanksiving, hung out on the beach Friday & Saturday with 68F weather and sunny.
My return trip began at 4pm Saturday evening. This time I took I-95 via Washington DC. Arrived home at 12am Sunday morning. In all the trip took 8 hours, average speed was 60 (congestions) and my top speed was 114MPH (Home stretch at 11pm...no one but me on the road :-D )
In all I traveled over 1,200 miles.
Thoughts~Need heated socks and winter/waterproof gloves. Also too, I will take along a little Anti-fog wipes to keep the visor from fogging up.
GPS~Best thing since sliced bread. Made riding MUCH more enjoyable and less stressing.
Autocom. Speakers/Ipod not the greatest for music, but when anybody called me on the cell phone, I could hear them VERY clear!!! Extremely impressed on how clear they could hear me and I them. Although pricey, Autocom has a great product.
Because most of my riding was done at night, I don't have many pics. However, I took a few while at our Beach House. I'll post when they're developed
I'm ready for another road trip.
