The trip begins!

Over the next couple of days I am hoping to get a chance to post some trip highlight pictures as well as stories now that we are back home safe and sound. I originally wanted to be able to post from the road, but without a computer and download software for the photos it would have been a pretty substantial challenge. As you'll see, a lot of the spots we stopped didn't exactly have high speed access anyway. So. . .away we go!

The Friday that we left was actually a beautiful day - clear and sunny but not too hot. We had packed most of our stuff the night before, so we really just needed to do one last check and head out. Jason can carry quite a bit more than me in the huge Jesse bags, plus he had all the gizmos, including the charger for the radios (so we can talk bike to bike), phone, iPod, camera battery and chargers, etc.