April 18th, 2015
Day 8.
A fast approaching storm had been forecast for today since yesterday.
We awoke to a cloudy, drizzly morning. It didn’t look good.
Out of prudence, I decided to not stay in the area for another day. Besides, I’d had enough rain for the trip as I desired. the storm was moving eastward and I preferred to try and be ahead of it.
So we said our farewells when they all set out for their days’ ride together.
Before packing and checking out, I used some time to replace my burned out headlight bulb and around lunchtime, I headed out away from Benton, northwards toward Tennessee. The plan was to bed down wherever I found myself whenever I felt ready to get off the highway.
At the end of the afternoon, I found myself in Brownsville, TN. I was tired enough, still needing sleep from my accumulated shortfall over the last few days, so I decided to get an early stop, rest up well and then make the last push into Ohio to complete the trip.