That was your glass.  Mine was full and had ice. 

Hi Jeets, Im going Friday, so stay in touch!

Sounds like a plan, and I'm hoping you know the way 

Hi Jeets, Im going Friday, so stay in touch!

From the Wawa in Fogelsville to Hawks Nest lodge is 428 miles on slab: I-78 to I-81 to I-68 to I-79.  I don't think I've ever been on I-79.  I figure it would take 9 hours with gas stops and lunch.  Funny story - I was talking to a fellow today who rode down to the Dragon last year.  They started on 219, but it got "too twisty" as they got down into WV so they hopped over onto I-81.  Lot better riding.

My route is a tad over 500 miles.  Not sure it's the brightest plan I ever had.  Starts out on I-81 to Bath, picks up 9 & 28 down to old WV 55 (Doodles for lunch), then 220 from Petersburg south to 250 across to Thornwood, then down 219 (unfortunately, that is south of the parts that are too twisty) and across 39. 

I figure that should take about 14 hours - Dawn Patrol - if I leave my house at daybreak I should arrive by dusk.  I really don't want to be riding 39 after dark.  Maybe need to rethink this and spend a little more time on the slab.

PAGING JJ TO THE WHITE COURTESY PHONE.  Need a dose of road wisdom.

I was actually feeling sorry for him as we spoke.  Anyway...

I started thinking (a habitual hazard) about my proposed route down.  We pick up some time if we stay on I-78 down to Bath.  Still take 9 - cause that hill above Berkely Castle is just such a hoot - down to Doodles and for a change of pace, head west on 50 over Cheat Mt and Cool Springs Exxon.  Turn south on 92 or 119 to 33 west.   

From there we head out to I-79 if it starts getting late, or turn south on 20 with the option to bail west at 15 or 39 onto I-79 later, or stay on 20 all the way down to 60 as long as it's light and we are enjoying the ride. 

Nice warm day - must'va been all of 33 F in the garage - continued prepping the bike for the Spring Meet.  Added Ram mounts for my GPS.

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Found the switched auxiliary leads up front for powering the GPS.  Alice (from the Dilbert strip) must have worked on engineering the leads to be just a hair short and perfectly frustrating for any man with normal sized fingers to reach.  You can see them there just out of my reach.

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Well I finally got them connected and hidden back in the boot.  You can see the blue shrink tube I used on the negative lead because I used all my black tubes up on a previous job.

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Test fired the GPS up.   Man that Wee is a good lookin' bike.!   

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Got the Sena connected - sort of - I made a single point connection to my Zumo for music, phone and navigation. 

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Summer's coming - I just luv tank tops.

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After all that, it was time for cappuccino - I like mine homemade in the early afternoon - I don't care if that's the "wrong" time of day to drink it.

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Followed by a short test ride.  Fairly dirty power - lots of noise in the bluetooth connection.  Halfway through the Zumo dropped the connection and the phone automatically picked it up and then routed the mp3 player through in the background.  WIERD.  I'm going to have to ask the neighbor's 13-year old to straighten it out for me.  That's Rt 519 in Sussex county NJ.  Fairly clean and pothole free. 

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Think I'm almost ready to go.

couple days in a row for the OSJ's 

First on the new 1000r
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then on the 800ss
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