Date: Saturday, August 1, 2015
Departure: Uncasville, Connecticut
Destination: Elk Ridge, Maryland
Miles: 390
Hours in the Saddle: 12
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY BUT NOT SO SWEET ON THE ASPHALT!
Or the pocketbook!
$35 in tolls in New Jersey alone
$15 in Delaware
91 degree temperature in the Bronx
NASTY - AWFUL!
THE SOLUTION
Neck Coolers
One of those "Pinterest" ideas:
Made from 100% Polyacrylamide
AKA: Miracle-Gro Water Storing Crystals
The key is to soak the neck coolers in water for about 30 minutes to an hour.
The neck coolers swell up and get squishy and they stay cold all day long!
Tomorrow we will soak them for longer than 10 minutes.
We were "expiring" by the minute.
JASON'S OBSERVATIONS:
Gas Dispensers
Some require a "lifting" task to use
Some require that you push a button
Some require that you stand on your head and touch your nose and push the end!
Motel Showers
Some require a "college degree" to use
(those ones where you have to figure out the drain to make the shower work)
Some require a "pulling" technique
Some require a "lifting" technique
Some require a "twisting" technique
But always, always check the shower head spray direction and
beware of the spray hitting you in the lower back.
Guaranteed you will take every precaution to prevent it from happening again!
Motel Breakfast Food
Exactly the same selection
no matter what state or what motel you are in
Grandpa's Journal
Uncasville, CT
New Haven, CT
The Bronx in New York City
Liberty Park in Newark, NJ
Welmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Elk Ridge, MD
We were beat up!
We were too tired to go any further!
Tomorrow we look forward to
OPEN ROADS
Tennessee here we come!
STATUS OF YELLOW MOTORCYCLE
Working Great!
Whatever Jason did....did the trick!
However.....
Had to replace a headlight today (burned out)
And......
Grandpa keeps putting the kill-switch on when parking on a hill.
And then he forgets to switch it off before trying to start his bike.
It causes a little bit of anxiety for just a split second.
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