The last road day of a vacation is always the hardest for me. Your brain usually gets home about one day before your bike does. You have to be kind of careful with that because it makes you stop concentrating on staying alive, and that is bad. When we rolled out, it looked like we were going to be riding into a thunderstorm in Austin, so we stopped in Brownwood, TX to put on raingear and get ready for it. We got a total of 11 drops between the four of us, and we stopped a few miles later and took off our rain liners. We ended up getting to Austin without any more rain.
Knowing we were pushing to get into Austin before the storm, we really rode hard today. The way I put it was "Roll like vikings". We stopped twice for gas, and that was it. We only stopped long enough to fill the tanks and drink water, and then we were back on the road. Then we got in and did not see a drop of rain all day long.
After doing a post trip inspection on the bike, I found that one of my side case mounts snapped. It broke at the connection to the passenger peg. Not the same place the other one broke. This one is not going to be fixable with JB weld. I am going to have to replace them completely. It sucks, but it is the price of admission I guess. At least it is a bag mount, not a transmission.
It is time for bed to sleep off this trip. I will put up a full summary later on this week.
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