The Motel 6 has granite?

Since when does a Motel 6 have a granite window sill? This blows my mind. Cheap sheets, small tv, even smaller swimming pool, and, yep, we've got a granite window sill.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm laying in a bed at, you guessed it, a Motel 6! Leaving Clarksville, TN around 7:30 this morning, we arrived at a desperate little town called Fulton, nestled between the metropolises that are St. Louis and Columbia, MO. The day started out with a slight shiver and a chance of showers. By 11:30 Dad flagged me over to put on rain gear, and we froze our way through lunch. By 2:00 we were having the oil changed on the 1200 at Gateway BMW in St. Louis, and by 3:30 we were at the BMW MOA headquarters outside St. Louis picking up some stickers and catching up with Mandy Langston, a friend from the national BMW rallye last year. As it happens, we were helped at the BMW dealership by a really nice guy named Ryan, (sp?), who we found out, when we were complimenting his service to Mandy, that he was actually her fiance. What do you know? Tomorrow I finally get to pick up some filters for my new lens (Nikkor 14mm f2.8) seeing as the only places I can find filters to fit this ultra-wide are New York and Kansas City, (which finding them in Kansas was about as startling as seeing a granite window sill in a Motel 6)! We may also look into getting some bike-to-bike communication other than frantic hand signals and flashing head lights. We'll see how cheap we can get a set-up for. For now, I will settle to replying to some very outdated e-mails, reading about landscape photography, and sleeping!

Thus ends day 2.

Zack

Where, When, How....who cares why?

Over the next four to five weeks, my father and I plan to ride our motorcycles, (BMW 800 GS and 1200 GS respectively), from Banner Elk, NC to the Arctic Circle...and back. This is where we will document our journey, posting images and monologues depicting what has happened to us. We leave Monday, June 1st, (tomorrow).