Rachel's C90 Adventures from Alaska to Argentina – Life in the fun lane!
Day 9 Friday 14th Aug Well we didn’t get very far today, in fact we only did about 45 miles in the wrong direction so Ed could go ‘walking in Memphis’! We had a late start due to a late night, as we couldn’t find anywhere to camp. Everywhere had posted and private property signs,…
Day 8 Thurs 13th Aug I got up around 6.45am to a beautiful morning. I love the light at that time of the day, and the red dirt glowed as the sun shone through the trees. I absolutely love the colour of the dirt here, and with the green on the trees…
Day 7 Weds 12th Aug I thought Sam was underestimating what we can achieve when he said that we’d probably only do about 100 miles, but when we only managed 30 miles I thought that he was actually quite optimistic! We would have got a lot further had we left town straight away, but…
Day 3 Sat 8th Aug We were up an hour earlier than planned as we didn’t realise that we’d crossed a time zone. I’m a morning person and Ed isn’t, and I’m pretty sure he thought I’d tricked him in to waking up early. He was quite awake until I told him it was actually…
Day 2 Friday 7th Aug Well it was ‘Trans-America Backroads’ today, but despite the lack of dirt and gravel roads Ed still managed to crash. It was rather spectacular and left him and his bike in a hole and me killing myself laughing. Something had fallen out of his basket, and…
Day 1 – Thursday 6th August Well it was a fun and relatively easy start to the T.A.T., despite my bike spewing out all of it’s oil as we stopped in Tellico Plains for fuel. Ed had just pulled up to chat to some other TAT riders, and as I leant my…
After spending a good day with Mike, we decided to head off without the bikes and spend a couple of days in Manhattan. It was a fun couple of days, and we got to see a few of the iconic sights, the first being Grand Central Station. We’d only ever seen it in films and…
Being Independence day, or Treason Day as Ed likes to call it, we thought that it would be fun to spend the night at a proper campsite with entertainment and fireworks. We stopped at a couple of campgrounds but no-one was willing to do us a deal, and after being spoken to quite rudely by…
The following day was spent roasting in the sun, chatting to lots of random people who were intrigued by the bikes, and fixing Ed’s piston. He soon discovered that his piston really wasn’t in good shape, and that where the rings had been slapping around they’d scored a groove in the side. …
It was weird leaving Canada, after over 8 months in the country it felt strange going somewhere else. We were both looking forward to a change though as Canada had become so familiar to us, we were looking forward to a change of scenery and something new. The people had been absolutely wonderful though, and…
