I left Delaware at 10:00pm Tuesday night 1/31/2012 after replacing the starter motor in my nannies (yes, I have a live-in German babysitter for my two young girls) Jeep WJ with a flashlight in a office parking lot. It was also after a full day of work and I don’t know where I came up with the energy but I was able to drive till about 3:30am before pulling off at a rest stop to take a quick nap. Three hours later and I was back on the road heading towards Knoxville TN to pick up a motorcycle I found for sale on the KLR650.net forums Around 5:30 in the evening I arrived at the sellers house. He showed me the bike, let me take a test drive I gave him some cash and we signed some paperwork and the bike was mine. I had planned on staying at a hotel that evening but Mike and his wife Leslie were very gracious and offered me a room for the night. He recently left the Army and I have been out of Air force about 5 years ago so we stayed up late swapping war stories over a few beers. The following morning I packed up my belongings, said my goodbyes and got back on the road. Most of the drive was pretty uneventful. Around noon I stopped at a Honda dealership to have some new tires installed on the bike. Big mistake. The service department was rude and the prices were ridiculous. It cost me $161.02 in labor to have two tires (which I supplied) installed. I guess I could say I was robbed in Tennessee. Screw them. I left them negative feedback on Google Places and I hope they loose some potential business because of it. Back on the road… I drove through a good portion of the night and made it just past Little Rock Arkansas where I stopped at another rest stop to catch a few Z’s. It is now 9:30AM on 2/3/2012 and I’m getting back on the road headed through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and finally to my destination of Johnson Valley California.
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