Sit Properly

I’ve got dwindling options here.

Ratha-yatra starts at noon on Saturday somewhere in downtown Philly. The plan was to drive down Friday after work (getting off at four) and crashing at Elisabeth’s house (she’s a devotee from Philly). But since I don’t have my bus back, I’ll have to ride the scooter.

When riding a scooter, even though I can top out at 55mph, I really have to figure on only getting about 35 – 40mph average. Can’t take interstates. Philly is 150 miles away and 150 miles at 35mph is about 4 and one quarter hours. So, figuring in stops, let’s call it a five hour ride.

Since I leave work at four, I wouldn’t pull into Philly till 9pm. I have zero desire to ride through Philly at night. Especially on a Friday night. No thank you.

I was hoping to get someone to work for me from noon till four, but that’s not a possibility now.

I basically have two options.

1) Forget it.

2) Ride down part of the way on Friday night, camping somewhere (possible Locust Lake State Park near Pottstown), and then doing the rest Saturday morning.

The problem with that is that it will be around 55 – 60 degrees and near 100% humidity. That means fog. That means I can’t ride. Riding through fog on a scooter through twisty roads is pretty much like playing Russian Roulette with five chambers loaded. You might survive it, sure, but don’t bet on it.

I could ride to the Campground, spend the night and then hope for the fog to burn off by 8am. I’d get into Philly around 11:30am. I suppose that I could park at the event site, but I’d rather park at Elisebeth’s. However, I don’t want to make her late for the start of the Ratha-yatra.

At this point, I just don’t know what to do.

Regardless, I’m going to get my camping stuff together tonight and prep the scooter for a long ride.

I’ll keep yous updated.

ps – or I could rent a car….

***UPDATE***
I’m renting a car.