So what do you think makes somebody a true Iron Butt Rider in your eyes?
Top 13 Signs You Might Be a "True Iron Butt Rider" (or Rally Rider)
13. Sidewalks, picnic benches, cemeteries, and Home Depot storage sheds become perfectly viable overnight accommodations.
12. You have salt stains on your boots after doing a rally bonus because the tide was coming in.
11. You compare and contrast highway mileage marker schemes of state and national two-laners...and later discuss these points with other IB riders like its normal.
10. You find yourself seeing other IB riders that live 2000+ miles away more often than your own relatives.
9. You're asked to drive somewhere, but find yourself so tired and unmotivated you ask your passenger to assign a point value to the destination...and get a second wind because of it.
8. You publish on a forum one day that you'd host wayward IB riders and a person you've never met before is suddenly sleeping in your spare
bedroom...just after you've fed them and signed their 48th state witness form.
7. You listen to the 80's channel on XM and can predict the next song in the pattern.
6. Bob Higdon writes about you.
5. You switch your Garmin voice to Australian Karen and guiltily change back because you feel like you're cheating on American Betty.
4. You fuel your cage up at Costco in a business suit, but still reach into your pocket for a Sharpie to write mileage down on the receipt.
3. You never expected to make it Maine in your pre-IB life, but find yourself sleeping at the exact same Augusta Motel 6 twice in two years.
2. Somebody recognizes you from "Hard Miles" and/or "Hard Miles 2".
And the #1 sign you might be a True Iron Butt Rider:
1. Jim Owen sends you a personal e-mail congratulating you on a ride.