If Matt doesn’t mind I’ll post my limited view of this rally in comments, probably much less frequently than Matt will do updates.

At any rate…Linda and I drove a BBG1500 in my truck from Stayton, OR to Lincoln, NE from Tuesday to Wednesday night. 1680 miles in 22.75 hours. I figured my bike has taken me on several 1500 mile rides in 24 hours, time for me to take the bike for a 1500 mile ride.

Today we left Lincoln at a leisurely 9:30am and pulled in here at the Chesterfield at about 3:00pm. Bob St. George helped me unload the FJR and later I spotted while Jim Owens unloaded his beemer. Got the desktop setup for Linda and the new wireless card installed here in the room.

Had a little incident about forty miles out as a tanker in the slow lane next to us locked up all his brakes and took out a good portion of the guardrail by running right over the top of it as he threw bits of metal everywhere before getting stopped on the shoulder. I heard on the CB a few minutes later something about dialing a cell phone. Ya never knows…

Found a great steak house for dinner and replaced the small digital camera that was stolen when my house was burgled a couple weeks ago - but that’s a whole ‘nother story.

Tomorrow I’ll ride around a bit and get the lay of the land since we will be back here at least two more times for the checkpoint and finish. Need to bed in some new back brakes as well. Also need to find a dealer and get a tire mounted tomorrow and reattach my electronic gear.