played hooky from henry's Friday, it was birthday number 58 and I wanted to just go for a short ride. the weekend of the 22nd I started planning a ride and thought about riding up north and riding m-22 again and hitting m-119 also known as the tunnel of trees. I booked a room but by Monday I decided I wanted to go out of state, I could go up north almost any time and started thinking about where to go. route 66 came to mind, I had / have four days off but I know my sister linda wanted to take me to lunch and sunday is the best day for her and that cut into the amount of time I would have to spend on the road. I got the mighty ST 1300 loaded and fueled the night before so I wouldn't have to do all that Friday morning. at 06:: Friday morning I hit the road, it was a cool 66º and very cloudy, I had a mid-weight fleece jacket on under my joe rocket ballistic mesh jacket, should have changed gloves cause my hands got a little cool but I soldered on to the post office and put my mortgage payment in the mail box before getting on I-94 and heading west