SW Adventure

[Lapchik]

Monday, May 18, 2026 (585 miles)

The Honda had exactly 42,000 miles on the odometer as I pulled it out of the garage today. It was at 41,999 the last time I pulled into the parking lot, so I had done 8 big donuts in front of the garage to roll it over. After starting the day with a 40 mile drive to drop the kids off at their mom's house, I swapped the grey mobility blob for the freedom machine and headed south like an overly excitable dog that had just slipped its collar. I left with a gray sky above, wet road below, hazy horizon ahead, and in every other direction was a Canadian goose, hissing and honking at any vehicle that dared to drive to near its freshly hatched goslings. Unfortunately, the weather never improved. It was 55° when I left the Minnesota lakes, it drizzled and rained off and on through South Dakota and Nebraska, and it was 41° as I finished riding through the sand hills pulled into the hotel in North Platte.