Dana, Terry, and I are scheduled to depart on September 10th to deliver Will Sea to my new slip in Annapolis. It's been a very long time coming.
Due to a bug having to do with adding routes to a plan after the fact I'm adding a new trip to cover the second day.
This is my solo ride to join up with Wayne and Jackie at Fort Lewis Lodge, which has become a tradition for Jackie's birthday. Once out there, I'll switch over to the group adventure Fort Lewis 2024. This will be the first longish trip on the Blue Oil Burner since putting it back together. I've put it through its paces and all seems well, but I am still a bit apprehensive about potential mechanical failures. The plan is to divide what would normally be an easy day ride into two days in large part because those muscles around my shoulderblades continue to plague me by locking up. When this happens it's beyond painful. There is also a major rain system moving in, so this will be a very wet ride.
An ad-hoc solo trip
An ad-hoc solo trip
It appears that Will Sea will be ready to be splashed next week Wednesday. We then have to deliver her up to Cooper River Marina in Charleston, weather window permitting.
I really liked some of the forest roads on the last ride and thought to myself, "Ryan needs to see these." So we're heading out on a two and a half day ride along forest service roads. The plan is to leave Friday before close of business to get close to our target area and have all day Saturday and most of Sunday to go exploring.
A drive up to Summit to hang out with Ryan while he rides a track day.
Aaron is doing is Shenandoah Bicycle Ride and has invited me to join him when he stays in a cabin near Skyline Drive. I intend to take the DR and depending on how my shoulder is doing I may extend the trip by a few days and explore new-to-me gravel roads in Virginia and West Virginia. It'll all depend on well I'm doing. That first 89 miles on slab on my DR650 is not something I'm looking forward to.
Ad-hoc solo trip
We went on a bit of an extended stroll around College Park.
I need to move more. The weather on Thursday is predicted to be good. The last time I took a ride I went too far and had to Uber back so this time I'm going to try to map out a loop ride and follow it.
Ad-hoc solo trip
Ad-hoc solo trip
I'm back in Charleston for another couple of days of working on the boat and working on the app. There's been significant progress made on the app during the last week. That trend is continuing. For this test trip, I've once again made a significant round of changes which I expect will likely surface additional issues. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the boat. At the present rate it'll be June before it leaves Marine Propulsion ... so something is going to have to give.
I found another epic race condition that further explains some of the weird occasional errors we're seeing.