CC20 - Day 14

From Cincinnati, OH to London, KY – it was a lot of fun today. I picked a route that brought me through some beautiful countryside, for me reminiscent of middle European landscapes – lush, green, hilly, rich colors and great riding. 

I was lucky, that the weather held. For a while it looked like it would be raining, but it didn't – it cleared up a bit and the weather was great for riding. 

At some point I was heading into a very promising county:

It didn't hold that promise though ... ;-)

As I was riding one of the many single lane roads, I came upon this very peaceful cemetery in the middle of the forest.

The route took me on a lot of single lane backroads, some turned to hardpacked dirt and gravel for a few miles, it was fine though, no deep gravel or such, which I try to avoid when I'm so heavily packed and have the big cases on. 

Since I had a rather complicated route today, I wanted to try something new and to not just provide a screenshot, but a way to see the real map. Let me know if there are problems with it.

First the screenshot:

And then the actual map: 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1hWf-BNIZ2cmpobNKn7FxJbI5IOXsYAKP&usp=sharing

Tomorrow is undecided yet, I might have to stay here in London, KY, since my right ear canal has become quite tender and is swollen. I'm not used to wearing ear plugs for so many hours a day. If this isn't significantly better tomorrow, I'll stay here another day and see whether it gets better.

CC20 - Day 13

Today was another "just get there" day. The reason is in the map below:

Day 13 Route

The colored lines/areas are roads that are marked as "nice to ride" in the web application Rever. They represent roads labeled with G1 (Yellow, Excellent), G2 (Red, Very Good), and G3 (Orange, Good) – rating them on how nice they are to ride on a motorcycle.

Now, as you can see, between Rockford, IL und Cincinnati, OH, there is nothing mentioned. I thought about stopping in Indianapolis at the race track, but since I got a late start this morning, I just kept on going. The yellow/orange/red blob to the East of the "F" marker in Cincinnati is what I came to ride. Therefore, it wasn't worth spending more time getting here, instead I rather have a bit more time from tomorrow on. I'll ride into the nice area tomorrow and spend a week riding super nice roads, first South and then North to the Washington, DC, area. Then back South again to turn West and head home ... we'll see how this plan works out over the next few days. 

Stay tuned ...