Way Over Due Vacation!!!! - Day 1

I am a little late to getting around to this but, life have been super crazy trying to get caught back up on things after vacation.

I have worked at my current position for almost a year and a half and I was finally able to take a vacation. This is something that I haven't really been able to do. The only sad thing is once again the hubs couldn't go with me because of his job, so awesome roommate to the rescue. Jesse made the trip with me. 

I love that I get off at 1:30 on Fridays it allowed us to hit the road by 2 pm! It made the trip SOOO much easier. We were planning on getting to Springfield, MO Friday evening in preparation for our B.A.C.A. seminar all day on Saturday. We joined up with one of our B.A.C.A. brothers and hit the road, but soon found out if was going to be a very adventurous trip!

For those who are not fellow bikers Missouri has a helmet law, which requires a helmet to be worn at all times. We were about 40 minutes down the road and one of the people we were traveling with asked our B.A.C.A. brother if he had a helmet in his saddle bag. I bet any of you can reading this can answer that question. :) So, we decided to go ahead and continue the trip and we would stop and buy one somewhere. We were trying to make it to Harrison, AR before the motorcycle stores close. We traveled another 20 minutes and our B.A.C.A. brother pulled over to the side of the road and decided to try and call one of our other B.A.C.A brothers because he lived in the area. Thankfully, he answered his phone but, he wasn't at home. Back to the road we went. We managed to get into Harrison, AR with about 15 minutes to spare. He was able to get his helmet and we nicknamed his helmet "Chrome Dome." It just happened that a reflective chrome helmet happened to be on sale at the motorcycle shop. 

Now, that he had his helmet we were able to continue on to Springfield, MO. From Harrison, AR to Springfield was a hour and 20 minute ride. Being that our B.A.C.A. brother was now legal to ride on the roads in Missouri we were able to finish out our trip to Springfield. 

Traveling is always an adventure especially when there has been construction and you have no idea! Being that we were in the car we were following the bikes. Once we got closer to Springfield we passed the bikes since, we had the GPS. The funny thing is the bikers didn't realize we got in front of them and they kept slowing down... from 70 to 60 .... to 55.... to 45... Now mind you we are on a busy highway just coming into Springfield. We ended up taking the exit and the bikes did not. Once we took the exit and pulled over the bikers realized that it was us in front of them the whole time :) They walked their bikes backward to be able to get on the exit. The GPS decided that we needed to take the scenic route to our hotel. I ended up pulling the car over and making Jesse drive because I was tired of making the wrong turns.

I kept telling myself that all the fun is in the journey not the destination! 

We did make it our hotel a little later than we had planned, but I wouldn't replace all the wrong turns and the time spent together for anything!

Do you get annoyed be taking wrong turns and getting turned around or do you go with the flow?

Stayed tuned for the coming days of my long over due vacation!