I found myself in NYC.

6 days.
     2900 miles.
           1500$.
                   4 hotels.
                          1 cat.
                                   3 great friends.
                                            New Years Eve.
                                                     Harley-Davidson.

California-Arizona-New Mexico-Texas-Oklahoma-Tennessee-Virginia-Pennsylvania-New York.

It was a journey I was ready for.

An adventure awaiting me.  Career.  Future.  A dream to live.  My dream.

So basically I had picked up a hitch-hiking cat, and headed across the country to the Big Apple, and this is a time-line of our adventure.
By this point I've been at work for 3 weeks and I'm starting to get the hang of things at work.  I like the routine, and the schedule.  It's fun having something you look forward to every day.  Granted I miss all the fun trips and parties that are happening back home, Like the way I missed it for the last 15 months I was in school.  But this is my path, and I'm diving head first into it.  The pleasure of enjoying the responsibility and goals that I set out for myself.  And I kinda just want to build on those right now.  It feels good to do so.

So here are the photos: enjoy.

Riding around town, having drinks, 

playing pool, closing down bars with Greg, 

the night before I left town. 

This book:  It found me the day I was to leave town.
I walked along a sidewalk, and found a pile of free books.
I dug under a few and this one jumped right into my hands.
#fate.

Eating an orange that had been 

in the cold dark cavernous crevasses 

of my truck for months.

(and it was delicious)

Motel #1: didn't make it far from California, 

but it had been a long ass day.

California Desert #1: morning-ish

kitty: beholding the beauty of the desert sky, 

or something stuck on the window.

A walk was taken to appease the cat.  

Not too far from Flagstaff, Arizona.

Our first snow sightings.

Moments before, I had taken an amazing video of a glimmering sunset shooting through the cracks of a moving train right along side of me, and then I realized I hadn't pressed the button.  (and now I know what I will set my life goal on capturing again.)

Coming into Albuquerque, New Mexico.

If only pictures could convey how cool 

the distance looked 

when I took this photo.  

(Like, you know, the way my eyeballs and brain 

thought it looked amaaazing.) 

High Plains: I love them,
minus any winds that might come with the territory.

Look how far you can see.

Oh, look, here I am leaving New Mexico.

Look at that sweet line-up of
Cadillacs
checking in at the RV park.

Famous Cadillac art graveyard off Hwy 40 in Texas.  

(Eyes grow large, jaw drops, brakes pump, lanes change, U-turns happen, the cat doesn't want to get out to walk to the cars stabbing the ground, I go by myself, have a stranger take a photo of me standing in automobile carcass, had a great time, took a photo for a nice couple, the end.) 

I made it to Elizabeth and John's country haven 
in Lone Grove, Oklahoma.
Warm fire, warm food, and delicious alcoholic drinks which mean warm body, amongst warm company and great conversations.

And here's Dear John

And Sweet Elizabeth.

And these beauties that make the
fresh abundance of eggs.

Coolest winter garden.

Best Gnomes ever!

yep, best!

And this is the gorgeous back yard!

Here Julien is wishing he could play with the horsies!

Let's have a moment of silence
for the dear folks who have to live in states
with laws like this.

Who's ready for the West Memphis Motel 6 adventure???!

Hold your stomachs folks, 
but here is the dried loogie 
on the television in the 
West Memphis Motel 6.

And after switching rooms, my next room had a broken bed.  
Just imagine what sort of goodies you can hide under that mattress: guns, money, drugs, hookers.

Too bad it was too cold to go swimming. 
(splish splash)

Bridge into Memphis.  
(Cold steel, just like my knives.)

Welcome to Memphis. This is kinda how I would have expected the Motel 6 I stayed in the night before to have looked...although not far off. hahaha

This is me double parking, running up to the statue, snapping a picture, and running back to the truck, locals looking at this tourist like "sheesh."

Beale Street, Memphis.

This is me driving by Graceland as slow as I could to get a picture, and not just of the giant aqua colored nativity scene blocking my really awesome view of the manor.

Instagram photo!
@onedirtybiker 

Cat drinks beer, eats dinner, takes shit, watches Hallmark channel with me, looks surprised I took shower, throws litter everywhere, I squash/clean giant ants off the floor in the morning, sneak cat out in giant yellow middle-eastern head wrap.

this was my sweet room, 
in the really cute town.
(Can't remember the name of the town, 
or motel, or highway.)

One of many farmland pics I'm about to show you.

I snapped this on my way to see the Peterbilt semi dealer.
Sucker for small country houses....and semis.

And this is where Michelle lives, in the cute little town of Jim Thorpe in Pennsylvania.  We spent New Years together.

Here's Michelle and Sophia in front of  Michelle's shop and residence. Such a cool place: Natural Impressions. 

Cute little back alley rabbit in a garden with the drooping ivy off the hillside and the icicles for daaaaaays!

OMG NYC!!!!

That's right, I rode to work
on my first day
in a snow dusting.

My first real NYC snow storm!
(gorgeous right?!)

Standing at the top of my stoop, taking picture of neighbors houses, cars, snow, and street.

Guess what gets cold and frosts and freezes: my window.
It's just so much seasonal magic.  Come visit.

This is what an adult does on a work night.
(Tea...They drink tea, and kick their legs up on colorful pillows.)

Beer + bulb + mini lamp shade = best fucking idea eeeever!

Go drink here.  Be happy.
The Rusty Knot.

First work shirt!  If I didn't purposely omit my
face from the screen, you'd see a giant dorky grin
that didn't go away for a few days.
(Oh, and it's still there.)

NYC H-D Holiday Party!  I dressed up fancy.

Operation repair favorite gloves 5th time.
(duct tape freezes to finger tips.)

Thanks for tuning in kiddos!  I love sharing my photos with you, and expressing my adventures.

See you on the road!