Well I made it!  Monday night around 9pm (Pacific Time) I pulled into the driveway of my dads house in Long Beach marking the end of my adventure.  Since Monday I have been hanging out with all my old friends, gone to school for orientation, and ate a lot of food!  No time for rest!  School starts for the semester this coming Tuesday and I am looking forward to being back on a regular schedule.

My path from Oregon was great, Started off the trek home by having a great dinner with Dave and Chisti, can’t ride motorcycles hungry!  I left there house fairly early Friday morning and made it 430 miles to Eureka, Ca.  I was pretty sore after that but saw some good sites along the coast.

Saturday was an average day of 200 miles but it was pretty hot.  I met up with Dustin, Heather and their kids in Santa Rosa.  Great people whom I wouldn’t mind seeing more often.  Dustin made Carne Asada which I haven’t had since leaving Cali, hit the spot.  I went to church with them Sunday morning and got her Dustin speak and spent a little of time answering questions for the high school group.  I had an outstanding time in Santa Rosa.

Later Sunday I rode a whopping 80 miles to San Mateo to see Dave and Angela Radford, Dave being a good friend who I’ve known since Jr. High.  Had a good time catching up with them.  Oh I almost forgot, I had In N Out for lunch and dinner on Sunday.  It has been so long but yet it feels like I never left In N Out, they still taste as great as I remember.  While I was at the Radford’s I got a call from my dad saying he wasn’t feeling to good and that he might not be able to meet n Morro Bay like planned.  Were going to wait and see how he feels in the morning.

I called my pops around 9am to see what he wanted to do and we came up with the game plan of meeting at an In N Out in Newhall, CA (Magic Mountain for you So Cal people) and go the rest of the way home from there.  I had lunch with Dave and left around 1:30pm for my 400 mile ride.  Finally got to Newhall around 7pm.  It was great seeing my Dad for the first time in months!  After dinner we finished the ride together.  It was really fun to ride with my dad, he rode out with us on the very first day back in March and then he finished the trip back with me 5 months later.

Maybe I should have wrote this in the beginning but there really has been some culture shock in being home.  I have experienced life to the fullest, living by the seat of my pants for 5 months and now I’m back home.  It feels like just yesterday I was curled up in the fetus position in Michigan waiting out a thunder storm in my tent.

So for a few statistics:  I rode a total of 19, 335 miles over the course of the trip, used approx. 400 gallons of fuel, 1 ticket (Fix it ticket thank you CHP), rode a motorcycle in every state, and a whole lot more but those are the big ones.

Thank you to all for your support in this crazy adventure!  I can’t even begin to thank all the people who helped along the way but you all know who you are and you should all know that this trip could not have happened without all your help.  Thank you.

Ryan

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