8-10-12 Day 14 Danville, IL to Somerset, PA

Got up to a cloudy, cool & damp morning. The weather was for scattered showers left over from the front that went through last night but had moved east and from the radar appeared as if we'd most likely catch up to it. We left just after 7 but 2 minutes up the road we crossed the time zone so it was just after 8 already! The posted speed limits on most of this trip have generally been 70 or 75 except when you come through a city/town they may drop to 60/65. However, most folks are going 75/80 and that was what we traveled at for the most part just to go with the flow. We generally run between 160 - 200 miles on a tank. Today being the 3rd day in a row of putting on mileage, everyone was feeling the grind and folks were looking for a stop at about 134. The next leg only got to 120 with lunch, then 126 and the last leg was 124. I had one GPS issue as we came into Indianapolis that made us do a reroute through local streets within a part of the city but I blame the construction zone that may have rerouted the location of the highway intersection. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!! We had 2 delays due to roadwork that added an hour to our time on the road. We had some very light rain off & on and at the 1st gas stop, half of us put rain gear on. I chose to go with chaps and a light jacket. The radar showed us that we would be running perpendicually into a long band of showers. Well that band kept moving east just in front of us, an amazingly we never caught it. By the time we stopped for lunch it had warmed up quite a bit and was in the mid/upper 80's. After lunch most of us took off our jackets but kept chaps/rain pants on as the radar still showed that band of showers. This was the leg that had about a 40 minute delay for road work as the merge down to one lane ended up to be over 6 miles long!!!!! We had time to get off the bike grab a water as it was hot and most of us took off our upper rain gear/jackets . Once through we finally ended up catching up to the rain which is what prompted our next gas stop. We spent about 15 minutes fueling up/bathrooms/snacks/water/etc. In that time the sun came out and things were drying but we knew we'd drive right back into it. A couple folks put the rain gear back on but some of us just left our pants/chaps on and said screw it as it was hot and we could see on the radar that we could as Tom always says "DRIVE THROUGH IT".We took off and in about 10 minutes we came back into it and for about 20 - 30 minutes we rode through it with some fairly heavy rain for the last 10 minutes. The sun was out in front of the showers and we knew we had to keep moving and get to the hotel before it caught us again which we were able to do and about 20 minutes after we arrived came the rain. Tonights hotel was a Holiday Inn Express and it was brand new. It was so new that they were still wallpapering the lobby, as well as the pool wasn't open yet and they hadn't put the mini refrigerators in the room!!! So happy hour was just in our room today! Tommorrow is the final leg home for most of us except Mike & Annie will be splitting off near Hershey, PA to visit their kids/grandkids for an extra day,