Catch up time, been 2 days since my last blog ( sounds like I'm in an a confessional box )  yesterday dat we traveled to Madison WC and the weather was good as was the ride , over the last 2 days riding appox 16 hours all we have seen is corn fields ,mile apon mile as far as the eye can see is corn and what the do with is it feed it to the stock during the winter and also convert to Ethanole to mix in with the gas ( petrol ) but in saying there is a lot of corn there is still some great scenery. We arrived in Madison about 3.30 and on the way we picked up this voucher book so stayed at the Crown Plaze for the night only cost us $30.00 each and it was 4 star , did our laundry ( down to last pair of jocks, mark already turned his inside out and Phil was going commando ) which took ages as only 1 machine then 100feet down the road for Chinese and one of the best meals of the trip.
Apologise for spelling and grammar on the blog I type as I think and spell check doesn't work .
Today not a good start, every one all loaded up on bikes and car ready to go and bugger me, my bike wouldn't start, lot of noise but wouldn't fire up , was low on gas "ahhh that's the problem " guys pushed me 150 feet to gas station ,bit of a top up no result so thank god I had bike insurance rang them and they sent a tow truck ( no charge as part of policy)  only took 20 minutes for truck to arrive an 10 minutes to Kawasaki bike shop, took bike off truck and was going to wait an hour for shop to open when this lady turned up so I explained what has happened bike not starting etc hopped on to show her and bloody hell the bike started straight away. Very embarrassing  so I waited and had a guy check out the bike and we still don't know why it didn't start. Any way back on the road again and now in Bloomington Il and have just had a great meal washed down with a margarita and it 9.30 so having an early night