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 ...

Over the past month of riding together I think we have all determined that traveling by motorcycle is a study of extremes; extremes in endurance, extremes in conditions and extremes in weather. Let's go through the extremes in weather checklist to confirm we have experienced every one of them: Extreme dry..............checkExtreme rain.............checkExtreme humidity......check Extreme headwind....checkExtreme tailwind.......checkExtreme heat............checkEx...

Wow, thank you everybody for the outpouring of support! I received many offers of help for my mechanical problems ranging from tips about gasoline, through offers of financial assistance right up to someone asking if they could come and get me, bike and all! As it turns out I believe the issues were caused by sub standard fuel, perhaps as an unintended side effect of traveling on roads off the beaten path I may be frequenting low volume gas stations that sold me ...

Started the morning with some weather channel, the entire country is bone dry today so no worries. I remember passing through this part of the country on the way down, not that I take the same route, I always go through pains to avoid that! I recall the was a character building head wind that day, and my suspicions are confirmed when I pass through the Smoky Hills wind farm, they don't put up 150+ windmills in an area that the wind doesn't blow in a consistent ma...