Day 11: Topeka to Pacific – Angry White Male

September 4, 2017

“Well, lookie here, a woman on a motorcycle. Bet she’s real tough.” I looked up from my breakfast to see a guy planted in front of…

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Day 9: Aurora to Stockton – Hello to Mom

September 3, 2017

I slept a little restlessly the night before this ride. When I woke, I felt myself stalling and distracted – staying in bed after my alarm,…

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Day 7&8- Buena Vista to Aurora Plus One

September 2, 2017

The dilemma: I am on a motorcycle and I am 20 minutes from my destination and it starts to downpour. Do I stop under an overpass…

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Day 6: Buena Vista Layover – Rehydrate

August 31, 2017

I don’t know if it was the heat, the altitude or just plain old dehydration, but a headache had settled into then base of my skull…

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Day 5: Dolores to Buena Vista – Reunions

August 29, 2017

Hello Colorado, my old friend. I am still a native. Today was a day of Rocky Mountain highs. Rocky Mountain air and Rocky Mountain reunions. Okay,…

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Day 4: Page to Dolores – Navajo Country

August 28, 2017

Time zones are messing with me. I hit road in Nevada two days ago what I originally thought was an hour later than I wanted, but…

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Day 3: Panaca to Page through Zion

August 27, 2017

“You are an unusual person; riding alone across the country on a motorcycle.” “Thanks,” I responded with a grin. The innkeeper prefaced that comment with “It…

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Day 2: Austin to Panaca via the Extraterrestrial Highway

August 26, 2017

No knows you’re crying when you’re in a helmet… And alone, on a motorcycle, on a two lane blacktop, in the middle of nowhere, sliding through…

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Day 1- Pollock Pines to Austin; I am Really Doing This!

August 24, 2017

I vacillated between scared, excited, nervous, intimidated, antsy, hopeful, jittery, and optimistic with a undercurrent of panicked stress all week. Where did the time go? But…

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