Kerry here...

It's been a busy week.  As Jeanna mentioned in the previous post, we decided to end our tandem touring.  I'll pick things up from there.

Once we decided to end our tour, Jeanna called Enterprise and reserved a van for our drive back to Florida.  She specifically stated that we needed a Chrysler Pacifica van with the "Stow-n-Go" seating like the one we rented for the drive up to Ohio.  However, once we got to the Toledo airport, we discovered that the only Pacifica van available was a hybrid which does not have the Stow-n-Go seating (they need the room for the batteries).   The only viable option for us was a Toyota Tacoma pick-up that had a 4 1/2 ft bed.  News flash! - our tandem is over 9 feet long.  That meant that I got to spend an enjoyable half-hour breaking the Seavo down in the parking lot. (Luckily, I always pack the spanner wrench for the S&S Couplers).

By the time we got everything taken apart and loaded, it was after noon before we got underway.  We still managed to get 500 miles in, stopping for the night in Sweetwater, TN.  Our original plan was just to check into a motel when we got home the next night (we have the house shut down for the summer) and then load my Phoenix on the car and head back north the next day. 

However, our good friends, Curt & Helene, insisted that we stay with instead, so that's what we did.  We did spend the next day doing laundry, repacking things and visiting with some other friends.  Then it was back on the road.  

On the way back north, I decided that instead of going back to northern Ohio and picking up where we stopped, that I would start out at the Ohio River and ride up the Ohio-Indiana state line until I rejoined our original route.  Looking at a map, we settled on Jeffersonville, IN, right across the river from Louisville, as a good starting point. 

We got to our motel in Jeffersonville last night and I spent this morning prepping the bike and then we spent the afternoon walking around town seeing the sights.  Jeanna will tell you all about that on the next page.