Day 1 – Monday, June 24, 2019 Albany GA > Lake Blackshear GA
| Distance: | 43.4 miles |
| Duration: | 2:03 |
| Average Speed: | 21.0 mph |
| Minimum Elevation: | 206 ft |
| Maximum Elevation: | 331 ft |
| Total climb: | 685 ft |
| Total descent: | 646 ft |
2013 – Duct tape works.
Six years in the making.
2013-2019
If we know what is in store for us on our inner journey, we probably would not start the journey in the first place.
I pulled up to the gas pump to fill up the car the day before flying to Mexico. There was a soft crunch you could barely hear.
I got out to see what it was, and I notice the left front wooden rim had cracked. It was Christmas Eve, 2013, but felt like late spring in Albany, Georgia. I walked into the BP Station on the corner of Doublegate and Dawson road and bought a roll of duct tape. It got me home, 2 miles away.
Day 1
Monday, June 24, 2019
Albany GA > Lake Blackshear GA
After six years, three failed attempts, on June 24, 2019, the journey Towards The Unknown began. I’m heading to the west coast, by going over the Great Smoky Mountains first. I have to see how the car performs going over mountains. So my first destination was to reach the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway, 6,053 ft.
I was such in a rush to leave Albany and get on the road that the car ran hot before I even went 20 miles. At that moment, I realized that my journey was going to be a challenge.
I arrived at Lake Blackshear Veteran’s State Park and Resort around 6 PM. Exhausted, I cooked my first diner.
It was hot and humid; the waning, gibbous, moon in Pisces was just over the horizon.
That night hundreds of baby roaches were swarming on the trunks of longleaf pines, so I took refuge in the tent with BuddaCat but forgot the portable fan somewhere in the car. That mistake made for a long miserable night.
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