Roswell NM (day 73) I liked haveing consectutive days of travel as it was much easier to categorize this trip blog site. It's actually been about 39 days since i FINISHED leg 1 of my big trip. For those of you just tuning in, I've been staying in Albuquerque, NM with Ashley and family spending some quality time out here, and I must say, the weather has been perfect upper 70's the whole time. So... Ashley and I took a day trip to Roswell. First off, on the road ...

Decisions, decisions. Hola fellow blog readers. This is going to be a short blog. Today I was about to embark on my whole western half of the USA leg of my trip. I have to backtrack just a bit to tell you all that I have been staying at my girlfriends place with her family here in Albuquerque. Well, when you are sitting in front of your gear and bike for 2 and a half hours wondering on if you should go or not... well I think the answer is pretty obvious. I had...

Enchanted Circle Ashley & I did a two day adventure ride up into Northern New Mexico. We left Albuquerque saturday morning and road North up through Madrid and into Sante Fe. Madrid is a cool tiny town and was in that movie 'wild hogs'if any of you saw that one. At any rate, We continued North into Santa Fe and beyond taking what is called the high road into Taos. We passed through amazing landscapes as snowcapped huge mtns came into view. We even drove t...

BREAK! (day 35-day 50) 1 week into my break. It's nice to be home & relax. My fingers are so tight, the muscles really from holding the throttle of the bike for the past 34 days. I have to spend every day stretching them so I can bend my fingers again. Lots of pain. I even got a therapy ball to help get those muscles moving. I also spent 6 days being sick. head-aches, body-aches, chills, fevers, cold sweats. I even lost about 10 pounds. I guess this trip f...

Day 34 The Dragon & the lightning Big sigh... Leg one of my trip is finished. There are so many thoughts jumbled in my little brain about this whole trip so far. Mainly...I really can't believe I was on the road for 34 days. I feel like in some ways that I missed out on a whole month of summer, its weird to me that its starting to be fall already. But I also feel like I've done SO much in the past month and met so many cool people and seen so many cool pla...