8 May, 2004
St. Cloud, MN, to Springfield, OH
| Day 2 started out...late. I had slept in, and couldn't get moving. These Iron Butt runs require you to get traveling! So Plan two was to go for a Bun Burner 1500 (BB1500)... 1500 miles in 36 hours. I never did get into the right frame of mind. |  |
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I stopped briefly at the first rest area in Illinois. A nice passer-by took my photo. |
| As the day rolled on, I passed these, the Mountains
of Illinois!
I think I was a bit delirious at that point. |
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Here he is again! |
| Five weeks later*
I saw a truck with two blades on it a windmill. You just don't get
any idea of the size of them when you just pass on by the towers.
*Enroute to the Alberta 2000 Rally. |
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Sunset struck as I was heading east near the Indiana border. I missed doing the BB1500 by less than 20 minutes. If I had only gotten up a few minutes earlier, or run a little faster, or shortened lunch, or...it just wasn't in the cards for me on the first half of the trip. Two down. |
| Since I had missed the SS2K and the BB1500, there
wasn't much reason to run into Pittsburgh during the night. I stopped
in Springfield, OH. It took a while to find a room, and then it was
a smoking room. There was a bowling convention in town...
830 miles, with a high of 37.1 mpg and a low of 31.4 mpg. |
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