Day One, 1 JUN 06

Game on! No more planning sessions, no more what-ifs, no more contingency; in short no more sniveling. Now is the time for verbs and action. Houston we have lift-off.

First day game stats:

• ATL to Cadiz, KY
• Distance traveled: 370 mi
• Start: 9:30 met Alan at I-75 and 120 north loop
• Stop in Nashville, TN to have lunch with Alan's daughter and grandchildren: the incredibly cute and hungry, Miss Katlyn and Miss Amanda
• Picked up a satellite phone in Nashville. A little emergency planning for when we get north of Fairbanks and the cell service is even worse than Alpharetta.
• Finished the day at ~ 5 PM when a nice man with a computer in his delivery van showed us the real-time weather radar feed and the downpour we were about to ride into - thank you technology.
  

The goodbye at the house was emotion filled: I was sad to leave them - and they were glad to be left.

Meet Alan Harrelson: Intrepid traveler, motorcycle-ace, partner in crime: