This ride is now underway.

This ride is over.

That was a serious mad dash to the bathroom.

Finally back at home base.

I need to add LED turn signals.

Superslab was not as painful as I had feared.

Gawdawful traffic

Going to attempt the slab..

The power plug and GPS mount worked until I got into Front Royal.

My shoulder is killing me.

230 some miles yesterday.

It is mercifully warm today. All packed and ready to go 09:15.

This Outback is particularly nice. I like the bar.

Tightened the battery terminals. Shaking the wires did not reproduce the intermittent fault so we'll see if that fixes it tomorrow. I don't want to get into it any more here at the hotel since I'm only 150 miles out and it's supposed to be much warmer tomorrow.

Very nice climb up the mountain.

Shoulder still mostly ok

Stopping to reseat an earplugs. GPS keeps going on and off along with the DIN port

Long break. Shoulder still hurts.

Needed to stop after only 1 hours. The pain is dangerously distracting

I just talked to a woman whose husband was killed on a motorcycle. His last words to her as he left were, "Thissy be my last chance to ride."

The DR has developed an intermittent electrical fault. GPS and DIN port, which sucks.

Shoulder hurts but not disablingly so.

It's quite windy.

A hiker just kindly took my photo.

beautiful gravel road

Bad life choices yet again but at least I slept.

That belligerent trap was locked up when I woke up. I read that back spasms can be caused by a vitamin D deficiency so I walked over to CVS and got some. If that's the cause it'll take some days. I also picked up some magnesium.

I worked the stupid muscle with the therapy ball and that seemed to help. I swear I need to pack a masseuse.

really nice twisty mountain road with farms

crazy beautiful shireesqie ie area.

The mountain twisty section was outstanding

rain over stop. Steady drizzle

No signal here

finally under way