Hi All,
We returned August 4th and followed up 4 days later with a 1400 mile trip through Western PA, South Central, OH, West Central, WV, Southeastern, KY, then back into WV and split the state South to North back to PA then East to our home in Kelton. I believe we needed this short trip to detox from the road and motorcycling. It did the trick! We are now busy with work, writing our book and loving each other. Thanks again to all of you who inspired and supported us. A&M

Looking into the next adventure!

Enjoy the final photo of the dot collection. Thank you everyone for maintaining the Blog with us on The Four Corners Journey. Stay in touch for the next adventure!

Love and Peace to all,

Sincerely,

Michele and Art

Stage Four of The Four Corners Journey

Graduation is over and we are now on our way east. Plenty of hot desert to ride through. We are vigorously hydrating and spritzing ourselves all along the way. This is a great way to tolerate the heat during the ride. The desert has large mirages and plenty of swirling dust devils to witness. Today we made our way to Lordsburg, New Mexico. We got one dealer dot on our way here from The H-D in Tuscon, Arizona.

Stage Three of The Four Corners Journey

We are back in America and heading for the soutwestern corner of the motorcyclists official Four Corners destination of San Ysidro, California. Only those of you whom have had the opportunity to ride with Art know his, "Ride it like you stole it," style! It is a work-out just staying on the bike, especially around the long, sweeping curves of the Pacific Mountain Range. We are proud to have riden 10,000 miles on the rear tire without incident. Particularly scince we were forced many times to ride non-paved roads across America and British Columbia.

Stage Two of the Journey

This is the beginning of the second stage of the journey. Today we had a wonderful ride and a very nice surprise. We stopped at the Piqua, OH H-D dealer. They were the only dealer with a lid for our saddlebag, remember? Well Art asked the service man if they had the hardware to attach to the saddlebag so we could close and lock the lid. He did not but he searched all other stores and found a dealer in Mendon, OH who had the hardware. It was a 40 mile ride to the northwest. That happened to be in the direction we were going so we hopped on the bike and rode over there. Jim's H-D had the part and the owner, Jim Godwin is a lifetime H-D dealer. Since there were no technicians working today, he was more than happy to take on the task himself. He loved our story and that we were traveling the four corners so he did the work for free! While he was working, his wife Mary, took all the shoppers to their private museum in a barn next to the dealership and house. Inside the temperature, humidity, and light controlled barn was a lifetime private collection of everything Harley! There were Harley bicycles, a Harley generator, golf carts, True Glides, old side car bikes, military bikes as well as some of the old bikes from companies that H-D purchased back in the 1950's and 1960's. A Honda Goldwing, some Triumph's, and BSA's were included in the collection. Memorabilia were displayed in glass show cases around the perimeter of the museum. There was literally everything from A to Z and then some. We have seen the H-D Rolling Museum and even it did not have this stuff! If you travel through Ohio, make sure you take the side trip through the genetically engineered crop fields to Jim's H-D in Mendon, OH. It will be a worth wild trip.

We rode through light rain from there to Sturgis, MI but their H-D shop had closed. So we took a photo of Art next to the local HOG Chapter trailer.

Countdown to take off...

We are 50 days until I am finished school then we hit the road June 4th. Follow us along the journey of a lifetime. This is history's first ever nurse educator motorcycle journey. America needs nurse educator's. Lack of nurse educator's at America's institutions of higher learning is the number one reason we suffer from a nursing shortage.

Become a nurse educator.

Become a nurse!

See you on the road!