Arose at 0800 Saturday morning and was on the road by 0900 with just 250ish km left in my journey. Cranked those out at 140 kmh and was home by 1100, and into the arms of my SweetPea!

Here a few facts about the trip;

Total distance driven; 8742 km (4369 going & 4373 returning). Although I took a slightly longer route home with my diversion to Cincinnati, I was mostly on the Interstates which are apparently an efficient means of driving across America as the 2 mileage totals are nearly identical.

Going took 2 half days and 5 full days or about 728 km/day. Return was 1 half day and 5 full days at 795 km/day. I had zero run ins with any local law enforcement other than kooky border guards.

Stopped for gas 31 times, total fuel cost $537.00 (no exchange factored), average fill-up was about $17.30 at an average of $3.89 per gallon. Used exactly zero oil.

Stayed in 12 different motels over 15 nights, lamented the loss of the traditional walkout motel as the majority of the places I stayed were using the single entrance hotel model. Total accommodation costs were $1535.40 with a high of $129.00+tax in Cincinnati, OH and a low of $63.00+tax in Hancock, MD. (average $102.36/day)

These costs are as tracked by my AMEX card which I used exclusively for fuel & motels.

And now some thanks and acknowledgements of my sponsors and supporters;

• Thank you to all the followers of my updates, for the responses and encouragement, well wishes and expressions of concern for my safety. This was the first year (out of about 22 years of annual trips going back to 1989) that I shared my daily adventures through the use of social media. I think it was fairly successful, and fun for me, although I will need a better system for next time, and definitely a better video system for shooting those once in a lifetime Veyrons!

• Thank you to Triumph Motorcycles for building a bulletproof bike. I had some struggles with it the first couple of years, but now that they are sorted out I never had any doubt that it would start in the morning, and then run for 10 – 14 hours a day, rain or shine, usually at hyper legal speeds. This is my 6th summer on the Rocket III and I have just over 71 000 km.

• Thank you to MEDIACO for giving me a job that I love, paying me very well and giving me enough time off in the summer so I can both go to Mexico for 2 weeks with my wife and have a most excellent motorcycle adventure!

• Thank you to Winston and Appletons, the Winny bone is connected to the Rum bone!

• Thank you to Preparation H! (I wish I was kidding, but I’m not!)

• Thank you to my VooDoo laptop for booting every day despite rattling around on the back of my bike for 2 weeks. Having a laptop made my primitive movie making and Facebook posts possible, plus it allowed me to manage some projects I have on the go from the road.

• Thank you to my Sony Walkman 16 GB solid state MP3 player. 50 hours use on 1 charge! 3 hours to fully charge it!

• Thank you to all the Good Samaritans and fellow travelers out there who helped me along the way. The very first negative experience I had on the whole trip was outside of the Boston Pizza in Lloydminster on the very last night.

Now I wish to thank the one person that made this trip possible and that is my wife Eryn!

I don’t know of too many spouses or significant others who would allow their mates to leave them for over 2 weeks to go solo on a trip like this. I left her alone to run the house single handedly and take care of Kacy & Finnygan who can be handful at the best of times. Add to that the considerable financial outlay and the inherent risks of driving solo across the country twice and I think you’d agree that Eryn made a very big sacrifice so that I could have my holidays.

But Eryn not only allows me to this, she encourages and supports me, even in the days before departure when I am waffling. She knows how important these trips are to me. I am very lucky and truly blessed to have such a strong woman by my side, on my team, and in my life. Zyanya SP!

In the coming months I will edit all of the video I shot as a high-lite reel and make it available to this distribution list for download (promises, promises!). But for now I am signing off from my daily updates.

On an unfortunate side note, a friend of mine was involved in a single vehicle motorcycle accident on the weekend when he ran over some shoddy and dangerous unmarked paving work in South Edmonton. Although his injuries are not life threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, he is living in a great deal of pain right now. You all know I am not a religious man but I would ask those of you that pray, to include Scott in your prayers, and those of you who don’t pray to include him in your thoughts for a speedy recovery and a return to the road.

That is all.