Cannonballers continued to arrive into the evening at the official motel, the Thunderbird Inn, until the parking lot was overflowing with scooters and support vehicles. The entire motel was full with just Cannonball crew which means every single room is vacant and needing new linen and full service at the same damn time.
Sean had a new motor put into his Vespa P200 a week ago and he hadn't broke it in yet. He discovered on Day 0 that it wouldn't start. He and Star worked on it all day and were still at it when I went to my room at 10pm. Earlier in the evening they had to quickly relocate the repair efforts to a covered sidewalk when the first of several expected rainshowers pored down on on the festivities.
I was amazed at how many riders were using low tech solutions for navigation. GeorgiaGirl was writing directions on strips of masking tape and putting it on the inside left portion of her windscreen. Frank Tabor used a dry erase marker and wrote his directly on the windscreen. Several experienced Cannonballers were using the paper scroll nav chart method that Bagels was using so I guess its not such a crazy idea after all.
Sean had a new motor put into his Vespa P200 a week ago and he hadn't broke it in yet. He discovered on Day 0 that it wouldn't start. He and Star worked on it all day and were still at it when I went to my room at 10pm. Earlier in the evening they had to quickly relocate the repair efforts to a covered sidewalk when the first of several expected rainshowers pored down on on the festivities.
I was amazed at how many riders were using low tech solutions for navigation. GeorgiaGirl was writing directions on strips of masking tape and putting it on the inside left portion of her windscreen. Frank Tabor used a dry erase marker and wrote his directly on the windscreen. Several experienced Cannonballers were using the paper scroll nav chart method that Bagels was using so I guess its not such a crazy idea after all.
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