Then we headed south towards our 2nd destination which was Tallapoosa GA and it wasn't too long before Larry informed me that his GPS was acting up. He had been leading, but we switched so he could try to get it going again while I led. Well, I ended up leading all day as Larry's GPS was pretty messed up. Between slow loads, constant re-calcs, shutting off and then refusing to reboot it was pretty much a crap shoot. We made Tallapoosa by 10:30 AM and then headed towards AL for our next waypoint.
We made our next waypoint - Opelika, AL and it was already just about 1:00 PM. Except, we had also passed into the next time zone so it was really Noon local time. We decided to stop for lunch and then headed on down towards our next target. It was a long ride down some very back roads but there was very little traffic so we enjoyed it even with the oppressive heat of the afternoon. And with that heat came the inevitable building of thunderstorms. We could see the sky changing and I radioed to Larry that maybe we should call it a day. He agreed and we rolled into Brewton AL just 40 miles short of our next waypoint and by the time we got checked in and the bikes unloaded the skies opened up. Talk about great timing! We did manage to put on 433 miles for the day - not too bad for mostly off-interstate riding.
Well we also really wanted to have time for Larry to call Garmin support to hopefully work out the bugs in the GPS. Of course, the really crappy hotel Wi-Fi was not helping the cause but he does think he maybe got it fixed. We'll find out soon enough.
We finally walked over to McDonalds for some supper and then back to the hotel so I could download the days GPS tracks, info and photos and then finally write this blog entry. So here it is 9:00 PM local time and I'm ready for another good nights sleep so we can get up and do it all again tomorrow,
Added the GPS Track file for the 1st days ride:
