Wow it has taken me long enough to get to this but I will tell you I remember it was 108deg when I left the house to head north east! it was about 130 in the afternoon when I  headed out with all my gear strapped to the bike to include a tube cooler with water and ice in it on the handle bars. I made plans to stop at my sisters on the way there and spend the night mostly because I like to get to the boogie in time to get a good camp site and if you get there too late you don't get one! I have camped with in 50 feet of the same place since they moved to the new place! the other is, it is a good excuse to go see my sis! she lives half way there so anyway!   I rolled down I-35 to I-44 then up to tulsa got gas there by that time I had already drank two bottles of water because of the heat! the ice in my cooler was melting though and making me a nice swamp cooler as the hot wind blew across it on the handle bars! 

it made a huge difference in how hot I got! once I refilled my cooler with ice it was back on the road again! at Springfield Mo I had to stop for gas again then it was on to my sis place out side of Rolla i got there about 6pm just in time for supper! unloaded the bike and then went inside I noticed my wiring was dooping so I stuck it back up! where it belongs, then went inside! enjoyed the visit with my sis for a while then hit the rack so i could get up the next morning!  well i got up about 7am and had coffee with my sis and reloaded the bike and headed toward the boogie again! 

I didn't quite get to St Louis when my speedometer quit I thought that sucks because I couldn't tell how fast I was going and my bike has a way of getting away from you speed wise on a trip! then I noticed something else my lights were not working! I pulled over at the next little town called bourbon at a gas station and topped off my tank and started trying to figure out what was wrong when I noticed a wire hanging down by my back tire! ah shit! the clips at hold wiring loom that goes under the finder  had come loose in the heat and let the wires down on the tire! it had chewed thru the wires or pulled them in two one.  well as I was taking my stuff off the bike and getting my tape and stuff gathered up a worker from the station came over and handed me a roll of black tape and a small roll of duck tape too! he said you may need these. we talked as I was splicing the wires back together. he rode a 2005 road king 

he was about 70 years old and he said his wife didn't like for him to travel too much any more but he got it out for short trips now and again just to get his head right! well I got all the wires put back together and started to test every thing! well I know I had it wired right so when lights didn't work I went looking and found two fusses blown! the worker told me he would keep an eye on my stuff and pointed to a hardware store about a half block away! I walked over and picked up a package of fusses and went back an replaced them then every thing worked good! I thanked the man for his help as