Finally, no more video editing....WooHoo. I hope you enjoy the last installment!
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Day 7 - Bloomington, IN to Home
We started our morning over at the Starbucks across the street having some coffee, cocoa and treats to get us ready for the long ride home. We all planned on taking the freeways home to make it as quick a trip as possible, since we all had over 300 miles to go.
We rode with Dad out of town and then gave him some honks and waves as he pulled off heading North and we continued West.
We had perfect weather for our drives home, sunny and 80 degrees the entire way.
Steve and I enjoyed some two lane country roads before hitting the highway which was nice. Then it was on to the highway for the rest of the day. There was a lot of traffic due to the Holiday weekend but we motored through and made decent time. We didn't even stop for lunch, just took breaks at the rest areas and had some snacks there. We arrived at Steve's house at 5pm, unloaded all of our stuff and then hopped back on the bikes to go return my rental up in Janesville, WI. Another 45 miles or so.
After turning my bike in (goodbye bike, so sad) I got on the back of Steve's bike and we headed back home. We ordered his favorite pizza for his birthday and went and picked up his favorite cake, carrot cake, for dessert. We settled in and watched Superman Returns. It was a relaxing evening after 7 days of great riding.
Dad's total mileage: 2489
Our total mileage: 2355
We had a wonderful week of riding. We figure we only had a total of 80 miles of rain and most of that was welcome relief from the hot weather. Now the trip is over and it's time to begin thinking about next year. Hmmmmm....where will we go? Where ever it may be, you can count on us taking you along with another blog :)
Click here for the last few pictures
We rode with Dad out of town and then gave him some honks and waves as he pulled off heading North and we continued West.
We had perfect weather for our drives home, sunny and 80 degrees the entire way.
Steve and I enjoyed some two lane country roads before hitting the highway which was nice. Then it was on to the highway for the rest of the day. There was a lot of traffic due to the Holiday weekend but we motored through and made decent time. We didn't even stop for lunch, just took breaks at the rest areas and had some snacks there. We arrived at Steve's house at 5pm, unloaded all of our stuff and then hopped back on the bikes to go return my rental up in Janesville, WI. Another 45 miles or so.
After turning my bike in (goodbye bike, so sad) I got on the back of Steve's bike and we headed back home. We ordered his favorite pizza for his birthday and went and picked up his favorite cake, carrot cake, for dessert. We settled in and watched Superman Returns. It was a relaxing evening after 7 days of great riding.
Dad's total mileage: 2489
Our total mileage: 2355
We had a wonderful week of riding. We figure we only had a total of 80 miles of rain and most of that was welcome relief from the hot weather. Now the trip is over and it's time to begin thinking about next year. Hmmmmm....where will we go? Where ever it may be, you can count on us taking you along with another blog :)
Click here for the last few pictures
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