A bit of a change from Moss Side!
Just before the next exit from Highway 90, it was
obvious that a change in the weather, back to what I
had encountered for the past four days, loomed
ahead like riding into the night.
Black skies, with the low slung rain cloud
underneath was a few miles ahead towards today’s
target of Manchester number five. The exit signs
indicated that this route to another small town ‘New
York’ was an ‘off’ ramp only. From my limited
experience of the USA, this meant no motels, no dry
shelter or fast food outlets to hide in and probably
no way to get back on the freeway once I had added
my one piece rain suit, over my already bulky riding
gear.
Today started with rain but as I subtracted another
300 miles off the nine thousand mile target to visit
33 towns called Manchester across the USA and
Canada, the warm humid state of New York promised
a change. It is the third week of May 2011, and
spring has sprung late.
My thoughts were to abandon my ‘Get to one
Manchester per day’ unwritten rule, but it was too
late to change my course, the next opportunity to get
off this twin lane road was at the opposite side of
what was to become one of the worst rain storms I
had ever seen, never mind ridden in.