It's Time!
In seven days I'm off on The Great Lakes Tour.
With Terry Summers, Clark Langley and Jeff Myers, we're riding up the west side of Lake Michigan, around Superior, across THE bridge and down the east side of Lake Michigan. From there, we'll go east on the north side of Lake Ontario and Erie (south of Huron, of course, but I have to include the name here or it's not the Great Lakes Tour, it would be the Tour of Four of the Great Lakes) over to Ottawa.
We'll lose Clark in Michigan -- we'll spend two nights in Gaylord with Mark and Connie Rosen, from there Clark will ride home by himself.
After an evening in Ottawa we'll turn south through the Finger Lakes region of New York and down to Titusville, PA.
Somewhere along there, Jeff will head west to Omaha.
Terry and I will come south through Appalachian Kentucky, through Tennessee and into Alabama before turning west to Texas. The final day, we'll hot-foot it from Gadsden to home.
Total for the trip will be in the neighborhood of 6500 miles in 15 days with -- as always -- the longest days getting out of and back into Texas.
Preparation has seemed easier this time. Maybe I've finally figured it out.
New tire on the back -- the front should be fine -- and the final drive has new fluid. New brake fluid, air filter and valve check.
And I've borrowed Skip's Air Hawk.
All that's left is to change the oil and run the Super Tenere through the car wash.
Clark and I will leave here after lunch Thursday, May 21 and spend the night with his mom in Oklahoma City. Friday we'll head for Omaha where we'll link up with Jeff. Terry will ride from Plano to Omaha on Friday and meet us there.
Motel rooms are booked. Tourist destinations are mapped. Jessica has agreed to hold down the fort.
Saturday, May 23, the next adventure begins..
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