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If you have been following through with my mishap adventures you probably realize I’m moving out of my place and want to take an extensive motorcycle road trip somewhere in an effort to complete one of my resolutions and check one more thing off my Bucket List.  I bet you are wondering how far along I am to see if I’ve made any progress or if I’ve just sat in my hammock enjoying the nice weather and being a bum. Well the answer to that my friend is, yes.

I know, it’s an either or question but the answer is still, yes.

I pride myself in my ability to enjoy hammock time with my ukulele and a cold beverage even during my hectic move out schedule. However I have made some progress with moving, packing and selling things. I’ve sold my biggest items the washer and dryer (yippie) and have packed away a corner of things to be sold off during my garage sale that I’ve scheduled for next week. I still need to move all my furniture down to my brother and my mom got some vacation time from the Zoo so she can pick up my bed and dressers and put them back where I stole them away from when I went off to college.

As for the motorcycle trip well, that’s another story in itself. I have my license test Wednesday – wish me luck. My motorcycle however has not been cooperating the speedometer has been going all crazy bouncing back and forth between 20-70 mph when I’m really going 25 mph or at least it was. Now all of a sudden it is working fine, kind of a scary thought I’m not sure what’s going on since I’m no grease monkey.   The engine also dies out when I’m idle and I’m not sure why, I’m starting to doubt this thing can make it on a 1000+ mile journey.

What, you think I’m going to back out that easy? Ha! I fling in the face of danger, I peel doubt like a banana and toss it for someone else to slip on. I am taking this road trip one way or the other, that is once I figure out where I’m going. I have two options one is ride my bike and if it dies sell it for a bus pass home, this is not the most promising option. The other is to take up my pops on his offer to take his motorcycle which is a little more safe than mine.

Either way I have two stops planned out: visiting one friend in Jasper, Indiana and another in Iowa City, Iowa after that who knows. I plan on packing a small tent and boondocking it using Boondocking.org to help locate places to stay. I’m a little scared if I head towards Seattle which would lead me around Yellowstone since they have bears and buffalo and other big animals that poo flinging would’t affect in case of danger. But then again I could always find a motel and spend the money on a bed instead of beer, although I haven’t searched US hostels yet. Anyone know of any good US Hostel search sites?

I’ve had a lot of comments on where to go but I’m still unsure I’m kind of torn between Seattle or the Rio Grand Valley (south east Texas) I guess I’ll sort it out when I hit Iowa, unless you sway me one way or the other? What do you think? I have places I could stay in Texas but I’ve already been there, Seattle is new and I only have a ‘maybe connection’ about a couch to crash on there. Then again who knows if I’ll make it that far – or get lost along the way.

Do you have any exciting summer plans?

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