Man, that's too awesome! I'd do the same thing in a heartbeat if the logisticks were condusive to doing so. Times that I've gone from point a to point b riding solo on our tandem I've always gotten coments of "you lost somebody, yuk yuk". One of the cool factors of having a tandem is people always enjoy seeing a tandem team and maybe cut a little slack for you on the road(maybe, maybe not).