All Packed and Ready

Charleen has a Big Number birthday coming up. We had made and discarded several plans for holidays this year, but it came down to me asking, "You are turning 50 this year, where in the world would you like to go for your Birthday? Just name the place and we'll build a trip around it."

"Well," she said, "We've never been to a MotoGP race and the closest one to my birthday is on 28th August, a week later at Indianapolis Speedway."

Now you all know one of the reasons I love her.

The planning began six months ago and is about to unfold. For a bit of a change, we won't be riding this time, but are hiring a car in New York, taking a week to get to Indy, attending the race and hopefully meeting up with Jack and Linda who will travel over from Albuquerque, then spending another three weeks exploring the north-east corner of the USA. This will include visiting the remaining seven states to complete our previous plan to visit all 48 contiguous states of the country. That will only leave Hawaii and Alaska for another time.

So the bags are packed. We're ready to go. I can already hear strains of that song by Peter Paul and Mary (except we'll go together).

Saturday will be a little party being put on by Camo and Kath and I hear there is a cake involved, then Sunday we board our VA jet plane for LAX then JFK.

There is a link over the side there that will take you to our SPOT locator which we will have running when we pick up our Dodge Charger from New York. I'll try to do a blog entry each day, but no guarantees.

It'll be nice while we are away to read comments below each post (you have to jump through a few hoops) so don't be shy.