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| How hard it is to explain the feelings I am having, sitting here in my home, one year after making the journey of a lifetime. I review the journal entries and the photos that I took on the trip. I remember the kindness of strangers, who were not strangers for long. I remember the sometimes tedius miles in the rains of the Northeast, or the oppressive heat of the Southwest. It calls to me still. The road during the 86 days I was gone was sometimes so black that it was indistinguishable from the surroundings. It was sometimes so white ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 31, 2006 - "Where is the highway tonight?Where are those old days and crazy nights?" Neal Young One week ago, at 3:18 PM, I pulled into my driveway after making the trip around the edge of the United States. One week ago, I shut the engine off. One week ago I crawled off of that motorcycle for the four billionth time (it seems). I did ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 27, 2006 - "WALK THIS WAY, TALK THIS WAY…" This morning the rain could be heard hitting the roof of the house and it was not a soft "romantic" type of rain. This was a let's get everything soaked kind of rain. It didn't let up as we drove toward the Detroit Zoo. We would be performing in the rain today. I ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 25, 2006 - "WE'RE SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE SHOW…" It was interesting waking up to a telephone call from my brother at 5:30 this morning. He hasn't had a computer for a few weeks and still thought I was somewhere in a distant time zone. He really felt bad about waking me up, but that just ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/last_day_on_the_road.jpg">AT THE BELLA VISTA IN CASEVILLE. THE LAST TIME I WILL HAVE TO PACK THE BIKE AND TRAILER. IT IS SOMEWHATOF A RELIEF AS WELL AS A BIT SAD. THE RUN, THE RIDE OF THE SUMMER IS ALMOST COMPLETED. IT IS BOTHA TIME OF CELEBRATION AND A TIME TO MOURN./images/13222-12673/EARLY_MORN_ROUTE_25_S_OF_CASEVILLE.jpg">THE DAY IS GRAY BUT THE LAKE TO MY LEFT IS STILL TRYING TO BE UPBEAT BY DISPLAYING ITS BEAUTIFULCOLOR, ALTHOUGH A BIT MORE SUBDUED./images/13222-12673/THE_SKY_BEGINS_TO_TURN.jpg">THE SKY BEGAN TO LOOK REALLY THREATENING NORTH OF LEXINGTON. IT HAS ITS OWN OMINOUS BEAUTY ABOUTIT./images/13222-12673/LAKE_HURON.jpg">I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF LOOKING AT THESE WONDERFUL LAKES AS ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 24, 2006 - "LET THE CIRCLE, BE UNBROKEN, BY AND BY; LORD, BY AND BY…" I left my home at 4:00 AM on June 1st with the odometer reading 14,620 miles. Today, at 3:28 PM, I broke the "finish line" ribbon strung across my driveway by my friends, with 16,152 more miles on the clock. In that time, I had traveled through 33 States, ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/COLOR_CHANGE_IN_THE_LOWER.jpg">JUST AS THE UPPER PENINSULA DID, THE LOWER PENINSULA REMINDED US THAT FALL IS FAST APPROACHING.HERE'S THE FIRST HINT./images/13222-12673/ROUTE_119.jpg">EVEN ON THIS CLOUDY OVERCAST MORNING, ROUTE 119 IS A VERY PRETTY DRIVE. NOTE THAT THE ROAD IS NOTWIDE ENOUGH TO PAINT A CENTER STRIPE. "NARROW ROAD NEXT 19 MILES" WAS POSTED WHEN WE FIRST GOT ON THIS SECTION./images/13222-12673/FROM_119_TOO.jpg">ANOTHER VIEW OF MICHIGAN'S NORTH FROM ROUTE 119/images/13222-12673/FROM_119.jpg">AND ANOTHER OF THE BAY FROM ROUTE 119 /images/13222-12673/CROSS_VILLAGE_REPAIR_SHOP.jpg">DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE MOVIE "STAND BY ME"? THESE TWO CAME PEDDLING UP TO THE GAS STATIONWHILE WE WERE THERE. WHEN BOB AND I WERE ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO: GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 48201 1-800-527-6266 "IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 23, 2006 – “YES THEY’LL ALL COME TO MEET ME, ARMS REACHING, SMILING SWEETLY; IT’S GOOD TO TOUCH THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME…” 336 miles of extremely wet road between Harry and Connie Oster’s place and the Bella Vista Inn, located in Caseville, ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/BOB_ok_after_the_accident.jpg">BOB IS OK AND LOOKING GOOD AFTER VISITING THE HOSPITAL ER. /images/13222-12673/SOME_BIKE_DAMAGE.jpg">SOME OF THE DAMAGE (WHITE AREAS ALONG THE TRUNK AND SEAT) EVIDENT ON BOB'S BIKE. ALL REPAIRABLESTUFF. HIS WOUNDS LOOK MUCH BETTER TONIGHT THAN THEY DID EARLIER TODAY./images/13222-12673/TRAILER_DAMAGE.jpg">DRIVER SIDE OF THE TRAILER ABSORBED A LOT OF THE ENERGY OF BOB'S BIKE AS IT SLID DOWN THE ROAD./images/13222-12673/ROAD_DAMAGE.jpg">IT IS EASY TO SEE WHERE THE BIKE SLID ON THE ASPHALT. BOB HAS JUST PACED IT OFF. HE AND THE MACHINE SLID APPROXIMATELY 22' . THE TWO WET SPOTS ARE FROM OIL THATLEAKED OUT OF HIS SIDE CASE./images/13222-12673/MICHIGAN_ORCHARDS.jpg">SOME OF MICHIGAN'S ORCHARDS, NOT ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 22, 2006 - "COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW…." And we did, but I will explain this all later. Did I mention that the "Best" Western wasn't the best? Did I mention that the ice machine didn't work and that the coffee was like used motor oil and that Muskegon is more like Detroit "West"? We thought that our Best Western was really nothing more than ... |
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