I am pretty simple minded, it's true!

Thanks guys, you all rock!

I'm feeling a lot better about my future 'adventures' now. I think I'd read one too many tales of people spending 3 years riding around the world on 50cc scooters. Don't get me wrong, that sounds amazing and I'm super jealous of the people who do that, but it's just not something I can do at this stage of my life.

But your posts have reminded me what I love about solo motorcycle touring... nothing but the road and your thoughts; the changing landscape as you cross a continent; the grinning inside your helmet when you open the throttle on your bike the first morning after a couple of days off the bike. I can get all of that in other parts of the world, without having to quit my day job to get it.

I'm only here in America another couple of years before returning home to the UK, so here are my plans:

Spring 2016 - East Coast USA (2 - 3 weeks)
Autumn/winter 2016 - Mexico & maybe other places in Central America (3 - 4 weeks)
Summer 2017 - British Columbia/Alaska (4 weeks)
Autumn/winter 2017 - South America (2 - 3 months)

Even if I only do half of all that, it will have been a good couple of years!

By the way, if anyone is interested in my last trip along Route 66 I filmed it. Hours and hours of footage though, so you'd have to be pretty bored. Also, days 1 and 2 are just boring Interstate riding getting to the start of the route.

Route 66 Playlist