Day 2 starts off with a pleasant sunny, partly cloudy day and the temperature was mild (70’s & 80’s). This was a much welcomed contrast to Day 1 and all that rain.
This video covers my a portion of my Day 2 ride from Perry, Georiga to Griffin, Georgia.
This video covers Day 1 Part 4 of 4 of my Scarlett Homecoming motorcycle tour from DeLand, Florida to Douglasville, Georgia.
After riding most of the day in rain, I finally start to ride out of the rain bands as I approach Perry, Georgia. Soaked and now a little cold with the air temperture at 65 degrees Farienhiet (Temp was 91 degrees farenheit when the ride started in DeLand, Florida). I put on some warmer long sleve riding gear and swaped out my gloves for my cooler weather Harley-Davidson gloves.
I rolled into my hotel in Perry, Georgia right at sunset, perfect timing! After getting checked into the hotel and gear stowed in my hotel room, I peeled off my riding gear and dumped out about a cup of water out of each boot!
My Daytona Road Star GTX boots are waterproof, however I was wearing motorcyle jeans (Iron Workers) which were soaked, I think the water entered the top of the boot and collected inside the boot, being trapped inside the boot due to the waterproofing. I had rain gear (pants and jacket) packed but I delayed putting them on incorrectly thinking I was only going to encounter scattered showers and thunderstorms.
By the time I realized it was going to be a most of the day rain event, I was already very wet and thus, no point in putting on the rain gear at that point. I packed gear that I didn’t use for the joy of lugging it through airports, taking up my limitied luggage space on the bike, and extra weight….good job! LOL.
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In this video I ride from Roberta, Georgia to Barnesville, Georgia on some of Georgia’s less traveled 2 lane highways.
In this video, I ride from Roberta, Georgia to Perry, Georgia.
This is part 1 of 2 of my Florida Loop 2026 Motorcycle Tour. Today is April 6th 2026 and I am departing Perry, Florida and rolling south on US Highway 98. The original route plan was to roll south to Pinellas Park, Florida and cross the Old Tampa Bay on US Highway 92 into downtown Tampa. However, with all the fun I was having riding in congested traffic, I decided instead to avoid metropolitan areas the best I could and ride in the countryside, which is my preference anyways.
Florida Loop 2026 is the not so clever name for my motorcycle touring trip, riding a loop of the state of Florida…. hence the name of the trip
Florida Loop 2026 Total Miles = 2,261
Day 3 Part 1 miles traveled = 157 Miles Riding south on US Highway 98 from Perry, Florida to Trilby, Florida.
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