I awoke at 0516, earlier than needed and because I am now blogging the same day I was able to set an alarm for 0630 and catch another hour of sleep. When the alarm went off at the appointed time I was still a little skeptical of our deparfture time, even though it was my idea! I had packed some items on the bike the night before so packing up was accomplished in about 10 minutes. When I had everything outside, my leathers on and ready to go, I always take a look...

It is Friday night in Iola, KS and this town didn't know what hit them when Bill and I roared into town! We departed DT STL at 0800 sharp. When we were out walking yesterday we noted the entrance to the Interstate was just 100' away from the front door of our hotel. It ended up being, literally seconds off I64 and seconds to get back on, pretty awesome location. Whois that Travel Agent anyway? So I am good when booking hotels, but my Navigation skills could use...

This is the view outside my door this morning, the mo'tel is built on this crazy hill, and it is raining for real. I check the weather channel and Missouri Doppler on the web and find there are bands of thunderstorms moving towards the south east out of the Gulf. There seems to be a break in them though so I suit up, including rain gear and sit in front of the AC waiting for the rain to stop. I couldn't update my blog last night as for the first time in almos...