Day 1 - Carey Island
Monday morning. Perfect weather if a bit hot, slightly short on sleep, but excited and a bit nervous as to what was ahead. Waved the wife and kids off to school, checked that I had all I needed, and hit the road, Jack. This time, as I was headed into parts mostly unknown, I decided not to do the adventurer paper map thing and relied a bit more on technology. Google Maps, with the offline map of the day downloaded and used sparingly along the way as a checkpoint. The sparing usage was for two reasons; the first to conserve battery life and the second was because the phone got incredibly hot sitting in the enclosed see-through waterproof compartment of my tank bag. I didn’t want a Lithium ion fire - which is apparently as hot as the sun - start that close to my groin. No venturing off the beaten path, either. As I was doing a much more distance in a day, I decided to stick to main roads. This meant boring highways and trunk roads on the west coast, but once I hit the north and east, it ...