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Gary's Journal - Day 25

Hello Everyone,

This is the biggest day of the trip. We are about 90 miles from the ocean. The day is perfect.  Warm weather, no wind, and flat roads.  We leave early because they are talking about possible rain.  The roads are flat with no hills at all.  We average about 18 mph.  There is only one thing that spoils the whole trip.  I have carried my digital camera the whole trip in a small pouch on the bike.  I was approaching a bridge and hit a large hole.  The shock knocked the camera out of the pouch and onto the road.  There was a truck right behind me and before I could recover it, the camera was destroyed.  I was able to save the disk with the pictures.  The camera cost around $700.00 when I got it. Besides the cost, I was not able to document the finish of the trip the way I wanted to.  The camera was a very important part of our trip.  I was able to take afew pictures with the video camera which is also a digital camera but it was not the same.

We arrived in Charleston and checked into our motel first.  After getting set up, we left for the beach.  We arrived and were surprised at how beautiful the city was. We went to the beach but were not able to reach the water.  We took our pictures from the dock. We did a little sight seeing and then left for the motel.  I forgot to mention that joe's daughter met us at the motel.  She is a federal agent stationed   in D.C.  She drove down for  our arrival.  We will do some serious sightseeing tomorrow.  Lisa is taking us out to dinner. We went to a place called Buddy Gump, a great little sea food eatery.  All in all, it was a great day, if you forget the camera lost.  The bright side of the incident, I could have blown out a tire and crashed.  The truck would have hit me instead of the camera.  Go figure!!!.  We will visit tomorrow and then on Sunday, we must ride again.  We must make-up the 100 miles we missed at Atlanta because of the storm.  Will write tomorrow. 

gary, joe, and dion