I am 95% packed.  I’ve hopefully gone to REI for the last time.  Really, the only things left to sort out are the electronics and their paraphernalia.  I’ve spent a lot of time deciding whether to wear a headset that lets me use my iPhone or one that connects to the bike’s navigational system and Sirius Radio.  My final decision was to use neither.  But there are a mess of cables I must take with me, which take up space and require some form of organization.

I’ll be leaving the house with a new kitchen with new microwave, refrigerator, and dishwasher.  The house’s outside is being painted as I write.  I have a cover for my car, so Yoriko’s SUV can sit in the garage.  She should be pleased.

I’m a week away from beginning my Motorcycle Adventure.  (Assuming the kitchen remodel is completed, which looks very likely.)

To recap: I have seven legs in mind:

• Home to Key West, FL;
• To Fairbanks, AK;
• To Seattle, WA;
• To Prince Edward Island, Canada (Perhaps Newfoundland);
• To Glasgow, Scotland (Explanation below);
• To Apex, NC;
• To Home

My VERY tentative completion date is in August, though I may fly home a few times along the way.  I’m reserving the right to adjust or cease the Adventure at anytime.  I have completed a detailed itinerary for only the first leg.  This is emphatically not a race to the finish line.  The goal is to camp five out of seven nights, focusing on natural wonders, not cities.

In early July I’ll fly to England and, at the least, spend 8 days walking across Scotland with my sister Connie.  It’s certainly the first item I placed on my bucket list (1973).  This probably preceded the concept of a bucket list, but I clearly remember the time and place when I thought “I have got to go there!!”