Ridin'Ard (The h is silent)

Miles today: 245 Hours in the saddle: 4:29 We watched MotoGP again with camper meals and camper coffee (much better than Maxwell Ho). Packed up and got headed home. Jaron planned out our stops again which was great. Our first stop was gas in Green Bank, and then we had Subway for lunch again, in Front Royal this time. I'm pretty sure we've been to every Subway along this route. A little girl started crying when we walked in with our helmets on. Her mom said look, she's a regular person with her hair braided just like you have. It was adorbs.  Guess what! I didn't drop my bike once on this trip. Not in the stop & go traffic on the way out or back in, not on any of the stop sign intersections up or downhill, not in any parking lots. Riding this bike is a completely different experience now being strong.  It was hotter'n fuck today tho, y'all -- between 89 & 95 most of the time we were riding.  At our last stop as we were girding our loins for the last 1:15...

Miles today: 222.5 Hours in the saddle: 6-8ish?  Today was seriously a perfect riding day. For all the pissing and moaning about the awful rain yesterday, we could not have asked for better weather. Jaron did some route planning the night before.   We got up at 7 and Julie made camper meals and both Maxwell Ho coffee packets (still inadequate). (Julie actually added a packet of 2014-expired SBUX Via to her 2nd cup to improve it.) We watched the MotoGP sprint at 9 before setting out along some excellent roads. We got lunch at a super cute a sandwich place and then continued on to Hawk's Nest State Park for ice cream.  Our choice was a sundae or banana split. We both requested banana splits, but the banana was whole. Jaron did cut his in half for a proper split. Julie's strawberry syrup contained actual strawberries! We took a different route back and had Julie lead, bc my focus was flagging after lunch. I didn't sleep great just from being in a new location, etc. Afte...

Miles today: 245 Hours in the saddle: 6:47 Julie's soundtrack: Fast & Furious 1-10 Jaron's soundtrack: his own thoughts Today we finally left after 2 wks of rest. Jaron got bronchitis, then Julie got whatever gave him the bronchitis (but minus the bronchitis). Super shitty timing for being sick instead of going on OUR FIRST MOTORCYCLE TRIP IN 3 YEARS. Boooooooo.  So this morning when Julie was killing time playing the NYTimes Spelling Bee waiting on Jaron who was watching MotoGP practice, she said what the fuck am I doing with my life right now? And announced to Jaron that she was leaving in 30 min.  First we hit some unexpected (unmapped) traffic on the beltway at 10am on a Friday. That's ok, we're having fun. It clears up and we continue on. Great. Then it starts raining. That's ok, we knew there would be a little rain off & on today. We get to our first stop and close vents/change gloves. Still raining. Fine. Now there's stop & go traffic on 66W f...