I feel like such a slacker.
Bastard gave me a jolt until I remembered vividly that I rolled into Goldendale....the seat of Klickitat county at about 3 a.m. in the low 30's and failed electric gear. Checked into an overpriced hotel room and instead of a planned 4 hour sleep I got all 8 hours and took this picture in the morning. Seems half of Goldendale was out Saturday walking the streets against meth.
Just curious as to which brand of heated gear failed on you?
fun stuff Matt....and now I believe youBastard gave me a jolt until I remembered vividly that I rolled into Goldendale....the seat of Klickitat county at about 3 a.m. ..............and took this picture in the morning
I overgeneralized. The gear didn't actually fail.....I stepped on the power cable in my frenzy to get the morning picture taken and somehow disconnected it. It's probably still laying on the ground in Chehalis. It was a modified Widder cable I had made to plug into a Powerlet.....was a bit too long anyway. When I get a new one I will have to rethink the design a bit.....which I had lots of free time to think about during the ride with my teeth chattering.
Most of it's written up at my blog including maps and that stuff. I spent many months researching and planning this ride and had almost every single address to courthouses. The route in Microsoft Streets and Trips was that exact. However, I had a glitch the morning of the ride and assumed my new purchase of a program called GPSU would transfer those coordinates over. It did the first 9 and stopped.fun stuff Matt....and now I believe you
.... great fun idea and I like the spirit of your challenge. It'd be fun to see your route sometime, you'd have to do some pretty serious "zig's and zag's"
Going to each of theThirty-Eightsorry, Thirty-NINE, county seats, taking the pic ..etc etc ...takes much more time than many realize. Much more than just waving at the town as you ride by at a brisk pace.
......Did you set each courthouse's EXACT location in your GPS or were you stumbling through towns looking?
.....Did you ever ask yourself: "Why am I doing this?" LOL
In hindsight:
--what preparation, luck or other are you happy/proud with??
--If Leaving again tomorrow morning to do it again ....what would you do differently??
...renojohn
Great job on the Blog. Hmm, GPSU is on my list of chores to dig into being that I also use S&T but have yet to use GPSU to convert. At least manual entry gave you something to do
S&T was a great tool for this and was indispensable for figuring an optimal route. I figure I had three general options of starting in my home location (which would have me doing Eastern Washingon first), starting in Chehalis because it worked best for a mutual starting point for Doug and I, or possibly starting in Friday Harbor and perhaps gaining an hour because you'd only have to take the ferry one way (although you'd have to brave Seattle traffic twice). So, there was an extra 250 miles involved at the beginning to get into position and I only started with about 3 hours of sleep. Making this all fit into a 3 day weekend with no days off work was part of the challenge too.
Ya, well maybe this time you wont' be such a pussy and will do them in alphabetical orderMe thinks Oregon could be a next try.
The very, VERY scary thing is that I thought about that exact idea. If memory serves it was between Ritzville and Colfax at about 3 a.m. on the second day. I reasoned that kind of challenge would be acceptable for a person to choose two options and be fair....alphabetical from A to Z and reverse alphabetical Z to A.Ya, well maybe this time you wont' be such a pussy and will do them in alphabetical order
