I am finally back on the road!

I spent Dec. through Jan. back in NY and DC visiting the family and working trying to make a few extra bucks before I started traveling.

I had left the KLR at a shop to figure out why the spark was having issues figuring that two months was enough, it wasn’t, it wasn’t even the part they thought it was so, I had an extra week in FL to go to the beach, do computer work and drink.

I was finally back on the road! and it felt good, just good… I couldn’t quite figure out why, it felt like I was running away from things instead of toward them, like I had misplaced my wanderlust.

I stopped in New Orleans for two days and really enjoyed it but, wasn’t really in a mood to take photos so I left the camera at the hostel. It also rained a lot, so much that the cafe I was working in started flooding.

I still couldn’t shake my melancholy, maybe it was the flat landscape or more likely the fact that I was heading to a completely unknown place where I don’t speak the language on a motorcycle I don’t completely trust was getting to my subconscious. I don’t know. Whatever the case I am to stubborn to let such things affect me… much.

The next day it had cleared up even if it was a bit windy and chilly. By evening I had found an abandoned gas station to make camp in.

I finally got to Austin Tx. where I spent a couple days staying with friends, hiding from the rain and rewiring my all my electrical add-ons.

As I dropped south through Texas Hill Country the blue feeling I’d been fighting for the last week lessened its grip and I started feeling a bit better. I think it was the landscape.