We Made it

You can tell by the picture that we made it home, choosing to pass up Savannah and ride straight through 11 1/2 hours from North Carolina just beating tropical storm Fay to Central Florida.

From Nashville made a jog to the east to Murphy N. C. to surprise Tom for his ?0th birthday on Saturday, and ended up staying a couple of days discussing how we would get home without going through Atlanta traffic. I took a few hours Sunday to ride up to Deals Gap, a famous stretch of US 129 in N. C. and Tennessee with 318 curves in 11miles. When I was done I found myself in the middle of nowhere with no short cuts home so I ended up traveling 180 miles to do this 11 mile ride.

Due to the storm coming out of Cuba and toward Florida we left early on Monday to get as far as we could. Early in the day we were watching for deer grazing on the sides of the road, but instead we encountered a black bear bounding across a couple hundred feet ahead... no time to get the camera out.

No long stops today, gas and go, a quick lunch and an occassional check of the map allowed us to make good progress. About half way to Savannah we decided to just keep going through a few showers and Jacksonville rush hour.

So 7,768 miles, 23 states and 27 days after leaving Sarasota we are safely back in Ormond Beach. We will try and post a video in a few days, check back one more time.