Day 0: SNAFU

"Gimmie a SitRep soldier!"
"Situation Normal sir, all fucked up!"

So the original plan was for me to be heading over to the Seattle area right now to crash at my friends place and then meet up with everyone out in North Bend, WA before heading out on our big adventure tomorrow. Well, someone got wise and decided to check the weather and it turns out we were about to ride right into a big ass storm through Idaho and Northern Utah. So we made a last minute executive decision. Rather than heading East through Eastern Washington and into Idaho, we are instead turning South and are going to ride down the coast and wind up in Florence, OR for our first evening. This basically is going to completely demolish all of our pre-ride route planning and leave everything completely up in the air. Oh well, it wouldn't be an adventure otherwise now would it!

So now instead of meeting everyone at 8am tomorrow at a McDonalds in North Bend, we'll be meeting up at a Starbucks near Olympia at 8am. This is actually good news as it allows me to spend the night in my own bed. I'll just get up early, grab a bite to eat, put on all my damn gear and roll out.