It must be noted that my boots stayed dry yesterday thanks to the
lower farings that Kim bought me early summer.
Sure…upper and lower farings make a fashion statement for the bike but
they serve a purpose for the rider, too.
Wet boots are nasty…they’re hard to get off, even harder to get back on
and it takes forever for them to dry.
With Pegasus, my feet were just open and when it rained, road splash always made my boots wet. However, the faring protects my floorboard
which in turn protects my feet. And the
result of all that is dry tootsies!
Yay!!
**Update: My boots got wet today but not from road splash. They actually got rained on today.
**Update: My boots got wet today but not from road splash. They actually got rained on today.
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We made it! Our goal today was Escanaba and we did it.
Yeehaw! Back in the upper reaches of the
Mitten state! Started the day riding in the rain…ended the
day riding in the dark…throw in hard rain off and on throughout the day and an
hour of heavy fog in the late afternoon and it all adds up to eye strain and a
mentally fatiguing day. We were both so ready
to get off the road.
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Usually when cruising down a
back country road I like to look around to see what I can see. Just a quick scan of my surroundings…discover
lots of unique photo opportunities that way.
But not today. When it was
raining, my focus was on just keeping myself between the lines on the road.
When the rain stopped there was fog to contend with…and when the fog lifted it
was time for the deer to be out and about.
No, it just wasn’t a good day to look for photo ops.
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The bulk of our trip was
spent outside of the Eastern Time Zone.
At our farthest point we were in Mountain Time which is 2 hours behind our
part of the Mitten. Kim doesn’t change
his watch…if I ask what time it is he’d say something like “It’s 12:30 in real
time which means it’s, ahh…10:30 this time.”
I just change my watch because it’s easier to know at a glance instead
of doing the math.
My car and cell phone change automatically
when entering another time zone and my laptop can be set to change time zones automatically
also. I wondered about the clock
settings on Zeus…I really hadn’t had a need to look into changing them
yet. But we’d be traveling into
different time zones so it was something I wanted to figure out. When we left Ironwood last Tuesday morning I
got into the time menu. Found out that
the time zone could be set manually or it could be set for ‘User Time’. I wasn’t sure what this setting was about and
frankly was a little intimidated by it. I thought manually changing it would be best.
Ironwood is in the Central Time zone…Zeus was
still on Eastern Time, his clock said it was 11:34 a.m., which would be 10:34 Central
Time. Easy peasy…I’m going to just change
it to Central...Hey! it says 9:34, what the hell?! That ain’t right. Okay so I’m going to change
it to User Time to see what that does.
Hope I don’t screw something up.
Okay here goes…I’m thinking it should change to whatever time zone I’m
in…What!? It still says 9:34…it should be 10:34…what’s the deal? There’s got to be something else going on…how
do I get it back to the right time? Oh, come
on, it can’t be this hard. I wonder if
this Daylight Saving Time button would make a difference. Hey, that worked! I did it! I did it! I figured it out! From that point on, Zeus’ clock changed
automatically as we changed time zones. 👍Yay!
Rapunzel has been the
executive director of travel but today I decided to use Biker Girl as my own
personal guide. Rapunzel was still the lead dog but using Biker
Girl’s nav screen allowed me to see the map, how many miles until we reached
our destination, and what the ETA was.
As a bonus, it told me what song was currently playing. 😊The one thing the nav
screen did not indicate is the current time.
Since my watch was buried beneath my jacket and gloves, I had to either
switch back to another screen or rely on bank clocks as we rode through various
towns. Not optimal but it’s what I
had. Most of the day I was clueless as
to the actual time.
I became curious about Biker Girl’s estimation
of our arrival time in Escanaba…what time zone was she using, the time zone of
our destination or the time zone that she was actually in? After lunch she had an ETA of anywhere from 7:04 to 7:15
p.m. depending on our speed, how long we stopped, etc. When I
did the math of how many miles we had left against the difference of the current time and her
ETA, it was just not working out. Throw in the
fact that Rapunzel had slightly different numbers for all those factors and it
got really confusing as to what time we could expect to arrive in Escanaba. But Biker Girl had her story and she was
sticking to it…she continued to indicate that we were going to arrive at 7:15 p.m. despite the fact that it
was past that time in reality. However,
as soon as we passed the Eastern Time Zone sign by Harris, Michigan, she
changed her mind and our ETA became 8:15.
So that tells me her estimated time of arrival is according to the time
zone she is currently in and not the time zone of the desired destination. That’s not extremely helpful.😐
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Small Town of the Day: Glen Flora, Wisconsin…population 92
Today’s route was a small town route.
But there were also a number of little towns that had ‘Unincorporated’
on their signs. Curious as to what that
means so I consulted Google because Kim didn’t know when I asked him. Wikipedia has this to say: In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.
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Thursday miles: 342 miles
Total miles: 2,681 miles
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