Huge fire near Miami. When Preston was in college his team wrote a grant proposal that got a new fire truck for the Volente VFD. It was his idea.

Huge Brush Fire

Huge Brush Fire

Let's just say there's a little bit of Preston under the base leg of the 80L flight path at NAS Key West. I think he would like that.

Late Start

Any Iron Butt Association member realizes that, at this rate, I'm not going to break any records.  This isn't like a 50CC, where you have to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific in under fifty hours.
  I wanted to get my witness form done and picture taken then get my picture saved to SmugMug.com in case something happens to the camera.  Thanks to Officer Gomez for helping me out.  I pulled up to his car as he was about to leave the station and asked if he a a couple of minutes.  He said, "You want me to witness your mileage?"  I guess it's been done before.
So it's North to Alaska.

Start

Start

Baton Rouge
The last time Preston was here he was pulling a trailer with a 2-ton FEMA truck on a deployment exercise. He sure loved managing emergencies.

And away we go.

And away we go.  Surprise.  I decided to leave early so I could get to Key West with plenty of time to get witness forms signed and photos taken.  I COULD have done it in two days:  I once rode from Fresno to Austin in two days, but that was on a K100RS and I could still get over 40MPG doing 105MPH.  I'm slowing down in my old age and this bike would probably get 28MPG at that speed.