All right! First major milestone complete!! Crossed the US from coast
to coast!
At Marc's house now till the 15th – service the bike and some final
preparations to head down into Latin and then South America 🙂

Wow – one of the best riding so far! All kinds of terrains, twisties,
off road, gravel, and tons of othe motorcycle doing trails – beautifull!

Will post the videos tonight 🙂

Here with Marc getting ready to go through the Death Valley National
Monument 🙂

Cold but sunny 🙂

Beautifull sunset ride from Las Vegas. No Internet here so no new
photos or videos today 🙂

Gees – we look terrible 🙂 but happy 🙂

Gorgeous ride!! Arriving in Las Vegas -my cousin Otto is there!! Going
to have lunch with him. What a coincidence! Going by the famous Hoover
Dam now 🙂

Going to start early today since the forecast is for snow where I'm
at… unfortunately I will have to skip Bryce and Zion National
Parks… the pictures look breathtaking but not going to do a 100 mile
loop through the parks in wet conditions.
To compensate that I am gong to go past Las Vegas and head northwest
to a town called Beatty where I'm going to meet Marc – he's riding up
from LA – we're going to spend the night there and then drive down
Death Valley National Monument – weather should be good.
Excited to start the journey down into Latin America soon 🙂

The Truth About Life ™

These past three nights while having dinner I've been reading some
small books that are part of the condiments rack on the table – all of
them by Ben Goode – with titles like "Some Things are Worse than Being
Older than Dirt" and "How to Cope When You are Surrounded by Idiots".
Great passtime while eating.
One part caught my attention – he's talking about how times are
changing:
"The traditional nuclear family, with a mother and father and 2.8
children, is gone. In it's place are families with 1.8 parents …
holding down 3.8 jobs per parent …"
Just thought it was interesting.