We left Chantilly at about 10:15 am this morning. This pic was taken at the Sheetz station near Chantilly.
The bad news was that after about two hours we were lost and had to buy a map. The good news was that now we had a map!
Somehow we managed to drive through Winchester, VA and get on the wrong road. It was beautiful, nonetheless, and we were in the backwoods of West Virginia and rocketing towards Pittsburgh before Doc realized that the drive was different from what he had done last year.
We sorted things out and doubled back to Route 50. We followed that route all the way to Parkersburg. It rained pretty hard for about 20 minutes and we just kept riding. We got soaked, but dried out once it cleared. The drive was really nice - and interesting. It beat the Interstate!
Thanks to Jim Hassen, who let me borrow his GPS, I managed to at least find the hotel in Parkersburg ok. Necessity being the mother of invention.. I just kept pushing buttons until the thing started talking to me.
Once in Parkersburg, we met up with four other Legion Riders from the Richmond area.
We plan to leave at 8 in the morning and get to Indianapolis some time in the mid-afternoon. It is about another 300 miles.
If anyone wants to comment, please feel free. Thanks for your support!
Mike
2 comments:
Words by the modern day philosopher, erudite, and pundit, Mars Bonfire read:
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Wild
I like this Blog Because,
We can follow the old man
We'll follow the old man wherever he wants to go
Long as he wants to go, opposite to the foe
We'll stay with the old man wherever he wants to stay
Long as he stays away from the battle's fray
Because we love him, we love him
Especially when he keeps us on the ball
And we'll tell the kiddies we answered duty's call
With the grandest son of a soldier of them all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(film)#Songs
• Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens)
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