I’m a little behind on writing about our trip to DC. My motivation lately can be found near the nonexistant level, even with trying as much as I can to do better on things. Even writing, something that I think ultimately helps me, comes with such put-off that it takes me much longer than I ever want or anticipate to type something out, or in some cases, respond to emails.
I’ll start off with the short version, which was a text conversation with one of my friends.
A look at the damage from the recent tornado in Ringgold and up Cherokee Valley Rd.
A few photos from this set
A few photos from this set
After making sure that it’s totally okay with Mom, and that my Dad will be with her, Chase and I are leaving in just a few minutes to go to the Fall Rod Run in Pigeon Forge. We went up to the one this past Spring, but even after going many times over the past 8 or 9 years, this will be the first Fall one that we’ve gone to. You hear different things about which is actually better, but regardless, it’ll be nice to get out of Dalton for a little while. We’ll be back home late tonight sometime, depending on if we get stuck in traffic again, and will hopefully have a much needed good time.
We came up to Elgin, Illinois this past Sunday for some training this week and next. Google says it was 674 miles, taking about 11hrs 14min. Probably the most exciting thing we saw on the way up here was the Bullrun Aston Martin while driving through Chicago. We’ve been staying in Elgin each night while having the daily training at Hoffman Estates.
On the way through Chicago, we saw this Aston Martin from Bullrun. I’ve not seen the latest season, so I’m not sure if maybe it’s a future season’s car, or current, or even past. But it was very awesome to see in person and shoot while riding down the interstate.
Being from Georgia where you never see the huge windmills, it’s always a spectacular sight to see when traveling to part of the country where they are abundant.
We left this morning on a 661 mile trip to Sedalia, Missouri to meet up with Mark for some training. The trip couldn’t have gone any better, and since we didn’t hit any traffic, we were able to shave some time off of the estimated 11hrs 17min that Google gives. Sedalia had their 4th of July fireworks show today instead of yesterday, which was nice since we ended up missing Dalton’s firework show that was on Saturday.
We left around 10:30AM with no real trip planned out. My brother really wanted to ride where we’ve never ridden before, and suggested out towards Alabama. We ended up taking 136 by Cloudland Canyon and just continued from there and ended up going through Fort Payne. We had a nice lunch at Shane’s Rib Shack in Rome before heading home. I ran off and left my little camera at work on Friday since I’ve been using it there, so unfortunately have no pictures from this ride. It was a great trip though that lasted over 6 hours and was about 210 miles long.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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