Apparently I woke Deborah from one of the best night of sleep in weeks with a sneeze, although it didn’t wake me up and I didn’t feel sneezy when I did, so I’m concluding it was a sneeze dream. We had both agreed that this was a near-perfect motel room, with a big fridge, a…

We were both still a little sleepy when the 5am alarm went off, even though we both slept well for over 10 hours. It was still pitch black when we rolled out of our tent. With the homeless chap that we had spoken to last night snoring in his tent just a few metres away,…

We seem to be on a roll and had another great night’s sleep even though the motel was close to a busy road. That said, we weren’t woken by the alarm at 6:30am, but by a plane taking off and flying directly over the motel just before that. With the motel reception area being the…

It was a cold night, so it was another one of those mornings that it was a struggle to get out of our toasty warm cocoons. With our gear quickly packed away and loaded onto our trusty steeds, we headed in for a hot drink with Sally before she headed off to help a friend…

Wow… if I didn’t mess up on the count we have been on the road for exactly 10 weeks. Our last night in a tent for a while wasn’t the best with the thunderous sound of the waves crashing on the beach, a distant foghorn blasting every 4 seconds and one of our fellow bikers…

Route Segment Dist(miles) Acc. Dist(miles) Ascent(m) Ascent(ft) To the start… 8 8 37 121 Day 1 – Chicago 60 68 189 620 Day 2 – 62 130 140 459 Day 3 – Pontiac to Normal 35 165 96 315 Day 4 – Normal to Lincoln 40 205 157 515 Day 5 – Lincoln – Springfield…