Friday, July 8, 2016

Cannonball - Day 3

July 7th 2016

Lebanon, TN to Cape Girardeau, MS (287 Miles)

Shorter Day.  Good news, they have already posted the Day 3 standings.  Here we go:

     3 Bob (BigKart) - 761 Points
     12 Chris (ctopher) - 562 Points
     18 Marty (sheepdog) - 516 points
     19 Frank (febail) - 513 Points
     20 Mike (Mike Smith) - 504 Points
     24 Steve (svhess) - 487

So day one I was 17th, Day 2 15th, and Day 3 12th.  I'm moving up the pack.

We woke up to very heavy rains:



After the riders meeting, we waited until about 8:30 and took off.

But it cleared up pretty quick:


And the riding was fine.., 



at least for a while.  After checkpoint 2, more rain


The rain stopped just before arriving in Cape Girardeau.  We checked into the hotel and dried out a bit.  Frank and I headed out to the post office to ship some unneeded gear home and make a little more cargo space.

We then submitted out daily times, and went out for dinner.  Ending up at Andy's Frozen Custard.


We also had to do laundry with everything being wet.  Unfortunately, the hotel dryer would not do more than permanent press heat.  I think we went through about 6 cycles.  Thanks Frank for Guarding through the night.

And that day is history.




Tomorrow, Nevada, MS  (Not pronounced how you would expect)

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