Hello everyone…it’s been a few days since I’ve posted as we hit the half-way point in the trip. Fate allowed me to be in the town of my birth for my birthday! We have had a great visit with my sister and lifelong family friends.
One thing that always tied me to this area are the giant redwoods. My father worked in the lumber industry here when I was born. The trees are amazing and stand like giant sentinels marking time from a thousand year calandar. Some of these trees were alive when Jesus walked the earth and have been a witness to every event, on earth, since then. There is something special about being near them.
Hundreds of years ago. when this area was starting to be settled, loggers cut down many of the giant trees. Not all of them, but many of them. What remains are like ghosts of the forest that stand and remind us of the mistakes of our past. These stumps themselves are both majestic and nostalgic. They stand out and are hidden at the same time. They speak to you if you want to listen. Their story continues to go on as new life comes from them and as they return to the earth, they feed the new giant trees that will continue to mark time for hundreds of years to come.
These photos are of reminders of our past….
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Dale and Terry's US Adventure Tour June 2021 
Beautiful words and beautiful photos. ❤
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This trip is both a beginning and an ending for me. I am Terry’s brother and I’ve spent nearly a lifetime riding on two wheels, but never with my younger brother. At my age (72) this ride signals a passage of time, and both calls to me to continue and yet beckons me to be aware I am at the end of my riding career. I’ve ridden in the heat of the New Mexico sun and slogged through the Virginia and Tennessee downpours. I’ve ridden my motorcycle over the flat forbidding desert of Death Valley and crossed through the giant redwood forests. I’ve been blessed with good health and a younger brother with a heart bigger than I knew to take on this journey. I look back at where we started and where we currently are. I cannot wait to see what is ahead of us and we, two brothers, ride to our next amazing vista. America is truly beautiful, it has something for everyone. When you hear the lines from America The Beautiful, they are not just lines in a song, there are Purple Mountains Majesty, and amber waves of grain. I would encourage anyone and every one to discover America and do it with your family…. It is an experience you will never forget.
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Awesome post! Be safe out there on your last big riding adventure.
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