Thursday June 25th - night

Here I sit in this really nice campground, and I am the only person in it. Kind of lonely with no other campers to talk to. I am feeling a bit depressed. I went back over all my figures and maps, I have 3300 miles left before I get to my house, and I have 8 days left. That is 412 miles a day. I am not sure what I did or left out to think I had less. Well if I can get some decent weather, I think I can do that. Probably going to have to break down and so some freeway riding. Oh well.

Have you ever seen those movies where a spaceship is re-entering the atmosphere and something goes wrong and it starts going faster and faster and the passengers are shaking and pieces of the spaceship start coming off - then it just burns up! That's the sensation I get when I ride my motorcycle on the freeways. It is like riding in some kind of wind tunnel with all those trucks going by sucking my clothes as they do. Oh well, I have learned a lot of new skills on this trip. I might as well learn how to ride this thing on the freeway. I was talking to one biker and he loves freeways, " Nothing cooler than burning down the freeway at 85 mph". Just about makes me barf my flax seed thinking about it. It is funny that it is no big deal driving a car all day on a freeway, but 30 minutes on my motorcycle about gives me a heart attack. Well, if I am going to be a real biker dude someday, I better quit fussing about it and git er done:-) I think I will try to ride 50 miles on the freeway tomorrow.

Laying in my sleeping bag in my tent listening to the most awesome thunder. Just rolls on and on and is so incredibly loud. Oh oh, here comes the rain. The Bible talks about God's voice sounding like thunder, Ps 29 says " The voice of God thunders. The voice of God is powerful. The voice of the Lord is majestic" Whoooeeee - it is getting louder. Boy, I hope the rain quits!