Back home

Jim and AlexaNana
Fred and Bridget
Doc Peter with his daughters
Rian at Lake Superior walking her dogs.

I returned to Prescott on September 12th after 6 weeks and 11,300 miles on the Burgman. A good trip all around and especially sharing it with my brother Joe. After leaving Newfoundland, we attended the Island Rally in Prince Edward Island and watched an old tractor plow day at the county fair. We then headed west to Saulte Ste Marie where we stayed with Rian and her family. Brad from San Diego was also there and we did a bit of drywalling in the basement and Joe taught Rian's mom how to make stained glass. I moved on to Peter's new home on Lake Superior and Joe went over to Marquette, MI to see one of his friends. He kept on going south from there and I followed a day later, visiting Mackinac Island and riding a bicycle around it and then spent two days with Joe Hindley, an artist friend of mine in Sawyer, Michigan.

A short ride down to St. Louis and I enjoyed a dinner with Recie and her children, her boyfriend Skip, Nana, Fred and Bridget and Danny. Then south to Charleston and I spent a day with Daddy before heading west. I stopped by Oklahoma City to meet Jim and Judy's latest grandchild, Jennifer and Alan's first child Alexa, then continued on to Santa Fe and had lunch with Isabella Klein. The ride from Sante Fe to Prescott was especially pretty on the back roads to Quemada NM, Springerville, Payson, and over Mingus with the afternoon temperature a perfect 75.

It has been an interesting year of travel. Two months on the beach in La Ventana, Baja in my trailer and in the midst of many friends, two months in the Greek Islands by myself and doing the tourist thing, and then six weeks riding, camping, and living with Joe.

But I believe it was on page 144 when Zorba said 'Boss, if I took the time to write about what I do, I wouldn't have time to live it, now would I?'

It's good to be home. Otto