All -And so it goes. By the time I reach San Francisco, I will have traveled about 3,800 miles. I left December 3rd and will roll back into town January 11th. A quick inventory...
I visited nine national parks, six ski resorts, six Best Westerns, three major cities, two Indian reservations, a college, a brewery, a casino, and a ghost town. I played eighteen holes of golf, skiied twelve days and thousands of vertical feet, and hiked up and down numerous miles. I started at sea level and went as high as 12,000 feet. I've seen beaches, mountains, (dormant) volcanos, rivers, lakes, valleys, canyons, mesas, bluffs, points, arches, and corners. I saw temperatures ranged from 70 degrees to -10. I've stood in the snow and the sun but, amazingly enough, not in the rain. I raced tumbleweeds on backroads; mingled with elk, buffalo, and deer in the fields; and dodged the trucks and trailers on the interstates. I sat with 91,000 people 120 rows up to watch a football game and I was by myself 20 miles out over a bend in the Colorado River.
A few sponsors of the trip were my mother, uncle, and cousin, all of whom I stayed with for certain stretches (thank you all very much). I got a bunch of advice along the way from a bunch of people, some of which I followed (thank you all very much). I don't know how I would have kept my sanity without Facebook or the internet to talk to (I did keep my sanity, didn't I?).
Anyway. And so it goes. Almost over. Almost back.
Hank
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