On our way

Well Jeff and I left New York Wednesday morning around 10:30 AM. We made nice progress through New Jersyy, Pennsylvania then to New York. We took some big roads and some small. All in all Wednesday was a nice day. Oh yes, we are riding 2 up on Jeff's RT until we reach Seattle and I can pick up my long stored Rockster and continue on. We stayed at a small off the highway hotel near Buffalo, nothing too remarkable there. Except Jeff being the cautious traveler felt that he needed to check the following day's weather, and yes, we were heading straight into snow.

This was not good news for me as I only have a heated vest that really only works with temperatures above 45-50F. We still decided to continue on up to Michigan as the storm looked like it would meet us in the afternoon as we neared our final destination for the day, Jeff's home town, East Tawas, Mi. We decided to go through Canada and it was a really nice ride, a bit nippy but totally do able until about 3:00 PM when we hit a huge area of cloud cover. For the next 2 hours the temp went down degree by degree and I became more and more frozen as we went. Luckily it was only 2 hours and we arrived at Jeff's parents house around 5:30 ish after a mid point stop at starbucks to warm up and thaw. His parents are totally convinced that we are completely insane but motorcycling is always an adventure.

We are staying in Michigan until Monday. The forecast calls for mid 40's to mid 50's F degreesand then warmer. We will also head south to where there is no ice on the roads. We have to abandon our plan to see Yellowstone as the roads are just too bad but I think we can still see the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore. We should get there by Wednesday and the forecast calls for warmer weather there too. :) That is good to hear!

More details to come later.