Art O’Connor

Ok here is the update.  On Monday Snake took me on a great ride through the mountains of Tenn.  It was unreal, long steep climbs followed by fast twisty descents.  The woods here are like a jungle, no sunlight gets in and the cicadas were deafening.  Snake just got back from a stage race in Georgia where he left a good portion of his hip and elbow on the Georgia asphalt.  Needless to say after a 100 mile RR in 90% humidity and the crash he was feeling a little less that perfect.  I took the oppurtinity to kick my budy when he was down and wax him on every climb, just like back in the day.  That’s how I roll!.  Just to remind me Snake did a 5 minute pull @ 28mph on his tops on the only flat section of the day.  I probably could have pulled through, once.  After the ride we sample the culinary highlight of the South.  Barbeque!  Snake lives a block from a place called Porkers.  After their pulled pork Sugarhouse BBQ just is not going to be the same.  How Snake does not weigh 300lbs is beyond me, must have something to do with riding 20+ hours a week.

As for the business, we hit the road Monday.  I think we are going to Macon and Atlanta.  I will know more tommorrow.  Hopefully I can get better at finding WiFi and update more frequently.

Thanks for reading,

Art

I am not setting any record for speed on this trip.  In Nebraska I stopped at Cabelas for a few hours.  I could really do some damage with the credit card at that place.  I camped at a state park right on a lake that night.  The next day I made it to just outside of St. Louis.  Missouri is an interesting place.  It seemed like every exit had an adult XXX superstore which was weird because over half the radio stations I picked up were Jesus channels.  real fire and brimstone type stuff.  I stopped and got a hotel and went out for a ride and promptly got lost.  I had planned to go for about an hour so I only had one bottle and no money or food.  3 hours later and about an hour after it got dark I rolled into the parking lot.  I am not a smart man.  

Yesterday I stopped at the Superman museum in Metroplolis, IL.  Hopefully tonight I can post some photos.