TAT Day 8

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…

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TAT Day 7

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…

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TAT Day 4, 5, 6

Day 4,5,6 Sun 9th, Mon 10th, Tues 11th There hasn’t been much to report as far as riding goes (hence putting 3 days in 1 post) so I won’t bore you too much with the other stuff. We ended up visiting Broadway in Nashville on Sunday morning, and had a whiskey and deep fried pickles…

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TAT Day 3

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…

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TAT Day 2

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…

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T.A.T. Day 1

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…

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