Saturday morning started early - technically the rally didn't finish until 6am with the penalty window open until 8am. We were up at 4 to get the odometer read and then hit scoring. Unfortunately this time around, I had made a mistake. When we'd stopped at the Eternal Light Peace memorial in PA, I'd written…
Month: July 2018
Day 6: Lewisburg, WV to Lexington, KY
Our last day dawned at the relatively sensible time of 5.30am. We availed ourselves of the hotel breakfast at 6 and got on the road with a plan to hit bonuses on the way to Lexington and, if we felt like it and could make it in time, to head back to Mammoth Cave National…
Day 5: Bedford, VA to Lewisburg, WV
Day 5 dawned better - even if it was 4am... And maybe it wasn't dawn yet, but whatever... I'd had some sleep, we had two days of riding and collecting points ahead, and I was no longer seriously sleep deprived - only moderately so. Around 5am we were back on the road and found a…
Day 4: Maggie Valley, NC to Bedford, VA
Day 4 started early and after not enough sleep! We'd hit the checkpoint before midnight which meant we could get our rally pack at 6am. If we weren't there at 6, we'd have to wait until 8am and we'd lose 2 hours of potentially valuable routing time - but we weren't staying at the rally…
Day 3: Thomson, GA to Maggie Valley, NC
Day 3 was eventful. And long. And kind of funny now - but not so much at the time! It started, happily, with breakfast and coffee at 6am, then we packed and got on the road pretty efficiently. Our first bonus was in Columbia, South Carolina: our second-last stadium and a great place for second-breakfast.…
Day 2: Oxford, MS to Thomson, GA
I was not ready for the alarm at 5.30am on Monday morning. Admittedly, it was 6.30am where we'd come from the day before, but it didn't feel like enough sleep! I move s-l-o-w-l-y in the mornings, and it required food and coffee in the hotel before I was even slightly ready to get back on…
Day 1: Lexington, KY to Oxford, MS
So after not that much sleep, but more than I was expecting, at 5.30am I was awoken by the Kiwi who was revved to go and had bags packed! I was not ready to be awake, but after some food and coffee things were looking up. We got all our gear on the bike, with…
