Chautauqua

Two and a half years of your life… somewhat difficult to bottle up and dissolve this time around. Gotta empty this discombobulated smattering of fading ideas, necessary pains, and hopes on a stick without making a mess. Lighten the vessel and gain some speed again

How to leave it all behind, such a large portion of your existence? But looking back, perhaps a long way down the road, maybe it's not such a large portion. Maybe just a big pause between the more important portions. Either way, I am not good at goodbyes… or a lot of things for that matter

Hmmm, so the first day of the last few weeks of the big divide started out with a little driving in the rain… but ended with a ride into the sunset

The Brain's man laws dictate that thou shan't take pictures of flowers and post them on thy website… so this is not a flower

Best campsite the government has to offer… free, open, and littered with unexploded ordinance

And the coolest fauna to (avoid) interaction with

This place was used during the Cold War to test live weapons dropped from very high airplanes, hence the neato looking targets everywhere

Over 100 cameras, each looking at one of the targets… to confirm a solid "SHACK!"

Up there… every night

Down there, artifacts of military preparedness

Beautiful

Lessons learned the hard way… ask permission before driving on the BOMB range… and always take a radio in case you get your bike stuck in the mud in the middle of nowhere… at 3 in the morning

I should sell this picture to BMW and buy that ferris wheel I've always wanted

I imagine there are places in Eastern Europe that still look like this

Haha, found one

This target has been hit thousands of times with live bombs, and we are standing right next to it… genius

You can see my campsite right at the edge of the mesa

Technology… be very afraid

I was just a glorified waterboy really

Mojave green rattler… the most poisonous snake in America… tasted good too

Newest air force toys

They let me fly it!

Zero mph on the grass…

Goodbye blue skies

Beaver Dam, middle of the Ozarks

After my swim

Eureka Springs

Branson

My kryptonite

Taste of the twisties

Last night of the trip… I'm the only one in the park

Last day… more dams and lakes… awesome

I think I am more Thoreau than Hemingway

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes"

Not quite Fall here yet, but still wonderful

You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again