Epilogue

My total journey was over 3,200 miles in 7 days (about 1,500 on the 66 route).

Leaving Santa Monica, I was stuck in LA rush hour traffic for over 90 minutes. I finally made it out of rush hour and stopped overnight in Banning, CA. I had a beautiful day and a great ride to Deming, NM for my overnight stop. The scenery was great and all was right with the world.

I woke up on Wednesday to a 33° start to the day. That was cold, but I thought it would warm up as I moved into Texas. Well....the arctic blast had moved in and Texas was actually colder than anywhere else on my trip. It was a brutal ride with a northerly wind sometimes gusting to over 40 mph. Air temps were as low as 22°, the wind chill was absolutely painful.

I made numerous stops to unfreeze my hands and clean the ice from the face shield on my helmet. When I would breath out, my breath would turn to ice and start to accumulate on the face shield.

After 14 1/2 hours I made it home. My beautiful wife had hot chili waiting for me, which was fantastic.

The last day was not what I wanted, but this was a fantastic trip overall. I look forward to running the full 2,278 miles in 2016.