It is our last day in 'merica and I am looking forward to getting back to Canader, eh? It was a beautiful blue sky day and we started out with a fill up across the street. I am pretty happy I didn't run out of gas even once on this trip, knock on wood! On my way to DC in 2011 (blog coming soon!) I let a gas jockey fill the tank and he shorted me by about 100 kms worth of range, which resulted in some hitch hiking, I do my own fill ups now. My time on USGT 93 had...

So the day was upon me. I had one last client meeting and a site inspection and I was home by 1400h. I had been up quite late the night before getting all my 'road gear' together. I laugh when I think back to the simpler bike trips of yesteryear where I would only need to take clothing, toiletries and riding gear. Now my pack list includes laptop, iPhone, iPad, iPod, iPooed (just checking to see if you are still there!) Bose noise cancelling ear buds, Hero cams...

Welcome to NOLA 2015! This year we are traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, also known as The Big Easy. I did some research into that name and there are several theories. The most popular is that a newspaper columnist in the 1920 was trying to contrast New Orleans with New York City which was starting to call itself The Big Apple. I guess that is sorta like why we call Calgary 'Hard Town'. Another theory is that it was 'easy' to make a living if you were a music...

Thank you, my loyal readers, for joining me on this epic journey. Thank you for the well wishes throughout the trip, expressions of concern when I was off the grid for awhile and even offers of help when I had some bad gas, er gasoline! It was so great to share my adventures with all of you. I hope that I will inspire you to share a trip of your own one day. At times I will admit it was a pain in the ass to have to write about my day, or when I fell behind, but ...

I woke early, about 0700, and poked my head out the door only to see I could see my breath. It was 3C. It was a good reason to go back to bed, which I did until about 0900. I ****** around until 1000 when I decided to start the day off with my 3 shirt solution and depart no matter what. It was about 7C, calm winds, blue sky day. It could be worse right? There are environmental conditions we had not experienced, right up to and including hordes of locusts! I was ...