Tickets purchased

Well, sort of. The car has been reserved. We ride (in the car) on Friday at 10 AM. Mapquest says it the trip will take 23 hours, 15 minutes. That leaves exactly 45 minutes for eating and fueling and we can still return the car on time. Then we ride (on the bikes) at 10 AM Saturday, just when it starts to get hot.

The one sure thing in all this is that we're getting our money's worth out of this rental. I wonder what the record is for miles put on an unlimited miles rental car in 24 hours. We have to be up there somewhere.