day 1

long day for day 1. three heavy rain storms, amazing lightning storm, and 680mi. The most wonderful thing is that cops down here seem to speed a LOT and don't mind if you follow them as they do so. 85-90mph through a few sections of Mississippi and Alabama really helped getting some miles done for this part of the trip.

here was my day (GPS tracker crapped out for the last leg to birmingham):








clearly not many good photo ops in torrential rain, but managed to sneak one in by the highway. I'm planning to spend today taking my time riding through the smokey mountains and hopefully have some better weather / opportunities to snap a few pictures.