Plans, and the fluid nature of them.

[pecunium]

I am not making it to OKC today. It was a long drive, and I had too pleasant a visit with Serge to rush for the road. I have a GPS, and the North American Map Cities card (USA, Canada, much of Mexico, as well as the Bahamas, Caymans, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands). I will now have excruciating detail of where I've been, and can plan how to get to more specific locales.

But setting it up, packing, etc. are going to eat some time.

So the plans are changed. I might lose a day, but I might not.

The new itinerary. I've shortened today up, and slipped the rest of the trip (downstream) a bit eat. Amarillo today (4 1/2 hours saddle time, at 65), Little Rock tomorrow, and Oak Ridge (probably; though If I am late out of Little Rock/worn out, I'll layover in Nashville).

... interlude of about half an hour.

Plans changed, and not. I shall lay-up here for a day, rest; maybe get a massage, see some friends of Les, visit a bit more with Serge. Then I shall leave first thing in the a.m. for OKC (and I've lost the contact info, in somewhere in the strange files which are my internet correspondence, for where I was going to stay in OKC, if it's still doable, I'd like to, but I'll need the contact info again. I'm sorry).

I have hope to meet some friends of Les', get a massage, set up the GPS (I seem to need a micro SD chip, or somesuch, to get the city maps loaded), and be in better shape to leave at an early hour tomorrow, for a long day in the saddle.

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Micro SD is the physical format for the add-on memory for many mobile phones. Adaptors are available for standard SD slots, and for using directly as a USB drive. I'd say a place handling the upper end of the mobile phone business would have them, but not at the best price.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I will go back to REI, the price won't be horrid, and I get my dividend/rebate. Since I need some camping gear...

[izzydesan.livejournal.com]

What type of GPS did you get?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Garmin Oregon 450, and the NA mapset. Right now it's malfunctioning... I can't get it to give me a road based route; though I have the detail maps from here to Ottawa loaded, and can find cities it didn't know before (such as Oak Ridge).