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October 05, 2006

Quick Update From Nashville

I'm WAY behind on my journal entries, several thousand miles and almost 3 weeks. I apologize but I'm doing the best I can with the time and computer access that I have...

This is out of order but I just wanted to check in and say that I've been in Nashville for the last two days, and was in Memphis, Hope and Longview before that. Lots of riding, did 500-something miles in two days cutting across Arkansas and Tennessee. Will report in detail later, but I'm doing fine, the scooter is still running, and the creek hasn't risen. I'm on the "home stretch" now, aiming to be back in Chicago on Saturday the 14th of October. Headed up to Louisville, KY this afternoon through some pretty mountain roads, will probably spend two nights there, then across southern IN to Murphysboro where I hope to meet up with Bill Bartolone, then I'm going to try to rendezvous with Draplin and Ryno somewhere in Missouri on Sunday and Monday.

8,500 miles into the trip now and nearly 9 weeks on the road, god damn it. Lots of new photos over on my Flickr account, sorry I can only dump them on there once a week or so and that means a ridiculous quantity of new stuff to sift through, but there are some gems if you have the time. Note: Flickr seems to have been overwhelmed by my "RAMBLE" set with its nearly-4,000 photos, so it somehow dropped out about 3,000 of them and now it's down to 600-something. I have no idea how or why this happened but I will fix it later when I have time, for now you'll have to go backwards through the pages and they'll be in reverse order, most recent first, etc). Will do more organizing and weeding of the photos once the trip is through and make a "best-of" gallery or two.

Thanks again to all the great folks I've met on the road who have offered advice, directions, lodging, warnings, iced tea, or whatever; you've made the trip what it is and I can't thank you enough.

Posted by pj at October 5, 2006 02:01 PM

Comments

So close ya can tast it eh braugh??????

Sorry I missed your message the other day...Rogers licks my ballsak..When you move up here dont use their service..all they will do is punch you real hard in your Brown Wrinkle every month and then tell you to jam your mobile where they just punched you.

I will ring you soon Homewerd..maybe we can get you a cheap place in China Town.

Posted by: Laprell at October 11, 2006 09:50 PM