Started our ride at 5:15AM from Marengo Oh. Stopped at I70 and SR 42 to meet up with Leroy. We headed out I-70 thru Indianapolis to I-57 and headed to Carbondale Ill. Traffic was very light. Weather was great. We only stopped for gas and a candy bar.
Started south on SR 45 kept watching a big cloud the further we went. We got as far as Enfield.
We decided to stop and watch from an abandon farm shed. We were 30 miles short of totality at 2:25PM.
It did get dark and the crickets chirped but there was just a sliver of the sun still out.
If we did go further it would have been cloud covered as per the tv news. Plus we ran out of time.
Since we had not eaten we were hungry. Stopped at 4 different restaurants before we found one open.
We decided to take I-64 east to I-71. Traffic was very heavy. The left lane was traveling about 75MPH and the right lane was doing about 70MPH. No one was changing lanes and was going pretty well. THEN a construction zone slowed us way down. 75 mins to go 10 miles. It was like seeing the entire nation was evacuating the south. We finally decided to take the back roads home.
It was very warm and nice bike riding weather.
I got home at 2:15AM. 21 hours on the bike and traveled 875 miles.
Started south on SR 45 kept watching a big cloud the further we went. We got as far as Enfield.
We decided to stop and watch from an abandon farm shed. We were 30 miles short of totality at 2:25PM.
It did get dark and the crickets chirped but there was just a sliver of the sun still out.
If we did go further it would have been cloud covered as per the tv news. Plus we ran out of time.
Since we had not eaten we were hungry. Stopped at 4 different restaurants before we found one open.
We decided to take I-64 east to I-71. Traffic was very heavy. The left lane was traveling about 75MPH and the right lane was doing about 70MPH. No one was changing lanes and was going pretty well. THEN a construction zone slowed us way down. 75 mins to go 10 miles. It was like seeing the entire nation was evacuating the south. We finally decided to take the back roads home.
It was very warm and nice bike riding weather.
I got home at 2:15AM. 21 hours on the bike and traveled 875 miles.