Today for lunch I ate something close to a McRib, from a gas station.
It had “8 14” written on the wrapper. Does that mean they would let it sit for 10 more days without selling?
Sunset on the I-24 (GoPro Time-Lapse)
It took all the way until Day 15 to capture a Sunset on my cross country GoPro Time Lapse. All previous days I was facing due East, or it was overcast, or some other factor.
It was a great ride on the I-24 leaving Nashville, TN riding to St. Louis, MO. Cool weather and not a lot of traffic.
A highlight was crossing over the Ohio River on the Interstate 24 Bridge (5,623 ft.) from Kentucky into Illinois and looking to the West and seeing the sunset from there.
Hey Tennessee
And Southern Illinois and Georgia too…
I just wanted to say “thanks!” for agreeing to let most of our country’s bugs live within your region.
The rest of us really appreciate it.
Leaving Florida on Day 13 I went through 6 rain storms. All brief. This one I had my helmet cam running and caught pretty good.
You can see cars and trucks turning on their emergency lights and pulling off the road.
I figured that the best thing to do was to ride through it as fast as I could… which was still pretty slow - I think I want all the way down to 2nd gear.
I did not have any of my rain gear on, and by the end of the 2 and a half minutes of rain I was completely soaked.
Kent and Troy hit this same storm as they passed through a bit later in the day, but they had pulled off and got under some shelter until it passed.
Day 15 Miles
412.4
Cookeville, TN to St. Louis, MO
Note: Kent and Troy are a couple hundred miles ahead of me because of the delay I hit in getting my bike serviced. They are getting oil changes in Kansas City so hopefully I cam catch up.
Tracking Fuel Consumption With Fuelly
I have been tracking my bike’s fuel consumption with Fuelly.com - a nifty web app written by some friends of mine.
I’ve tracked nearly every mile of the trip, excluding Canada because of their *wacky metric system - I was not exactly sure how much gas I was buying. I wrote the litre measurements all down with plans to convert them to US gallons and enter them into Fuelly later on, but the rain destroyed my records.
A typical fuel-up in your native country/measurement system is actually very easy to do right at the pump, either with a “smart phone” with a web browser or via SMS text message. You can also wait until you get home and enter them via a computer.
Here is a video the Fuelly guys produced to show off adding a fuel-up:
Fuelly: How to Track your Fuel Ups from Matt Haughey on Vimeo.
I have added my Fuelly “Badge” to the right sidebar of the web site. It displays my current average fuel-consumption in MPG. If you click through to my bike’s profile on Fuelly’s site you will notice more statistics including cost analysis.
*Note: I actually think the metric system is very sound and proper.
