Well the first day is down. 300 Miles out of 2400. We arrived this evening in Parkersburg, WV just after 1800 and met up with the three Legion Riders from Colonial Heights for dinner. All I can say folks, and I have said this before, if you have a chance to ride Route 50 over the mountains in W.V. do it! What a wonderful ride this has been today. On the trip are Mike N. and I from NOVA. The other three riders from the chapter left at separate times. Rich C. left to meet friends in Indy on Wed. "Little" Jon is leaving tomorrow and pushing it hard to Indy. Finally, John S. is trailering to Indy tomorrow as well.
We stayed ALMOST dry today. Hit a bit of rain for about 15 minutes as we were pulling out of Romney. As it was looking like it was time to pull over it was stopping so we didn't. Then we got spit on in Clarksburg. Worst part about that one, however, was that it appeared that a storm had just come through. So we got the aftermath of spray from the road. YUCK. That is better than driving in it I guess. Though we still have the cleanup to do now.
Three close calls today. One very close. Just outside of Romney, WV a green car made a left in front of me. I thought my trip was over for sure. Luckily I was able to quickly zip into the oncoming lane and back in before contacting the car. Mike told me they had something all over their windshield that looked like writing and they probably could not see. 2nd time a hawk or buzzard was having a late lunch on the highway. No way to stop but luckily he heard the loud pipes coming and was able to get up and out of the way with seconds to spare. 3rd time a log truck pulling off a logging road in the middle of a curve ALMOST pulled out in front of us. WOW that would have been nasty. But we are here safe and sound.
Back on the road at 0800 to do the 300 to Indy.
Below see a picture taken by Denise as we were getting ready to pull out this morning.
We stayed ALMOST dry today. Hit a bit of rain for about 15 minutes as we were pulling out of Romney. As it was looking like it was time to pull over it was stopping so we didn't. Then we got spit on in Clarksburg. Worst part about that one, however, was that it appeared that a storm had just come through. So we got the aftermath of spray from the road. YUCK. That is better than driving in it I guess. Though we still have the cleanup to do now.
Three close calls today. One very close. Just outside of Romney, WV a green car made a left in front of me. I thought my trip was over for sure. Luckily I was able to quickly zip into the oncoming lane and back in before contacting the car. Mike told me they had something all over their windshield that looked like writing and they probably could not see. 2nd time a hawk or buzzard was having a late lunch on the highway. No way to stop but luckily he heard the loud pipes coming and was able to get up and out of the way with seconds to spare. 3rd time a log truck pulling off a logging road in the middle of a curve ALMOST pulled out in front of us. WOW that would have been nasty. But we are here safe and sound.
Back on the road at 0800 to do the 300 to Indy.
Below see a picture taken by Denise as we were getting ready to pull out this morning.
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