First days on the road

We leave Virginia Beach early on the morning of Monday 22nd June at 6.30am, it's already 80 degrees! We have the GPS unit set to no highways so that we can stick to the back roads. It's longer and slower than the interstate, but our bikes are not suited to constant straight line use, we need variety, so do the bikes.

We breakfast at 9.30 at a crap chain diner with piss for coffee, but the staff are bowled over to have 'real life English people' in their "Resturant" (a very loose term in these parts ! We have a very long hot sweaty day in the saddle covering nearly 300 miles. A long way on these kind of bikes.

Along the way I have a drama with my bike, the exhaust end can is running super hot and has melted the right side panel where pannier is resting. Fortunately I caught it just before it burnt through the pannier. A visit to a auto store, some wire and a bit of duct tape, all looking good !