Day 16: Salisbury, MD to Home

The route and roads from Salisbury, Maryland to home are familiar and somewhat often traveled roads for T and G. It is unlikely that there is anything of significance that we could write about on the final leg that would be worthy of sharing with you. So instead, as promised, we are going to give you our listing of our top 10 highlights of the trip, the only five low lights we could come up with, and some other miscellaneous shared thoughts from behind-the-scenes.

Highlights:

1. Toe dip, San Francisco

2. PCH

3. The elephant seals

4. Seligman on route 66

5. The Meteor Crater

6. The Painted Desert

7. The RoadRunner on route 66

8. Ouachita National Forest on Arkansas route 7

9. Toe dip in Myrtle Beach

10. The beauty of the Outer Banks

*plus special mention, getting home safely has to have its own significance!

Lowlights:

1. The road conditions on route 66 from Daggett to Newberry Springs

2. Rain

3. Heat

4. Russellville, Arkansas is a dry county

5. G's bad hands

*special mention on this side of the ledger goes to wishing we had another two weeks to further explore the small towns along our route.

Further to that point, how long can you spend with a really close friend before you need a break? A week? A couple of days? A couple of hours? Well, we had 16 days together around the clock under a myriad of conditions that could stress most any relationship-yet we were still wishing for those extra two weeks together. We spent some time analyzing why it worked well for us, what one or the other guy did that helped to make a difference- for us. Presented as our abstract thoughts, they were:

Trust without hesitation

Humor without reason

Adventure without expectation

Friendship without limits

Assistance without request

Dialog without couching

Good lemonade, no lemons

Keeping focus – there is good in every situation

Flexibility is often a stronger virtue than conviction-compromise is often its own reward

Acceptance for what is

Laugh at yourself – often!

When riding with someone it is not about your ride,nor their ride- it's about THE ride