Week 4 - Solo Tavel, The quiet noisiness of my own thoughts
/The Adventure Continues
4 Weeks, 5000 miles, 7 ferries, 2 overnight ferries, 4 Canadian Provinces, 12+ US States, and let’s just say more than 1 pint of beer. The trip isn’t over yet and I’m having fun motorcycling around the mountains and small towns of North Carolina. It’s nice to be a bit closer to home. No rush, but slowly making my way in the direction of home.
Solo Travel The quiet noisiness of my own thoughts
The start of this week marked a transition in this journey. I turned toward home and began heading in that general direction. I also returned to the USA, which was a good feeling. While my goal is to be home within the a week or so. it’s open-ended. It’s that freedom and flexibility that I’ve been longing for on this journey. The trip so far has been built around ferry schedules and Jeanette’s flights. It was a very reasonable and worthwhile set of compromises to be made that allowed us to have a great time together. Jeanette’s made of tough stuff and it was a remarkable time traveling together on the motorcycle. I’m glad now to be on this new phase and the track of solo travel. It opens things up to a greater range of possibilities and allows serendipity to play a bigger role on this phase of the journey. I’m realizing those benefits in the small towns I’m stumbling upon the last several days.
Traveling solo allows the quiet noisiness of my own thoughts to work their magic. It’s a meditative experience that I talked about on my prior journey. It opens my mind to a field of possibilities, and it allows sparks of inspiration, like catching lightening in a bottle, to find their way into my consciousness. I’m looking forward to the coming days and I’m grateful for the continuing adventure.
Day 22 - St. John's, Newfoundland to Argentia, Newfoundland to catch the overnight ferry to North Sydney, Nova Scotia. 3282 Miles and making the turn home.
Day 23 - Arrived North Sydney, Nova Scotia on the ferry from Newfoundland and to Saint John, New Brunswick
Day 24 - Saint John, NB crossing the border into the USA. South along the coast and then on a a path to Front Royal, VA, stopping in York, Maine for the night.
Day 25 - York, Maine to Fairfax, Virginia. All Interstate travel. 521 Miles
Day 26 - Fairfax, VA to Front Royal and the entrance to Shenandoah National Park riding Skyline Drive to the entrance of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just outside Waynesboro, Virginia.
Day 27 - Waynesboro, VA to Blowing Rock, NC. From the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway to Blowing Rock. Riding the entire day on the BRP.
Day 28 - Blowing Rock to Waynesville, North Carolina passing by Asheville, via the Blue Ridge Parkway and a few side rides.