Day nine

Three words to describe today: Long, Hot and Boring. I'm on the west side of Wichita, KS in a cheap motel with no internet access. I am again on my Sprint Broad Band card with only two bars signal.

I'll make this short and sweet. I'll post some pics and more "story" tomorrow night. I was going to try an Iron Butt ride today (1000 miles in 24 hours) but I didn't prepare for it since I only decided it after I did 500 miles. At about 700 miles, I made a poor decision when I got pissed off at a line of 6 cars/pickups/SUVs behind a semi truck doing 20 MPH below the speed limit. No one would pass the semi. so...I passed 'em all at once. I didn't have a problem, but I was doing about 125 MPH when I got around the last one. I made sure to honk my air horn as I went around all of the vehicles in case they decided to grow a pair and actually try to pass. Not smart, I know.

Then about a half hour later, the passenger in a car in front of me threw out a cigarette and it actually hit me in the right arm. I recognized the symptoms of Road Rage, but I didn't care. We were on the expressway, so I went around them on the left, then flashed my brake light to make them go around me. That placed the passenger right where I wanted her. She rolled her window down and called me some names because I made them go around me, and I told her "Thanks for the F&$kin Cigarette But!" and pointed to the black mark on my bright yellow jacket sleeve. She actually looked embarrassed. My work is done here, I thought.

But then they got in front of me and slowed down. Enough of this crap, and I was about to downshift and test the power plant properly when they got off at the next exit. The windows went down and 4 arms came up with the one finger salute. Ok...bad decision number two in less than an hour. Time to call it a day.

Mileage for the day: 762
Mileage for the trip: 4,875