Mission completed

5500 miles or 8850 km have i done during these three weeks on the road. Every day have had its challenge and rewards. I have met a lot of people but in the end you are all alone and it is a big world. This jurney has not only been to go from A to B it has also been to fullfill a dream. We all have dreams,maby not like mine but do you fullfill them? is it importent to you to do that? if your answer is yes .....make it happened. You are stronger than you think.





Beautifull roads in Pennsylvania

After a night togerther with some bugs in my bed i had a beautifull day with some nice senerys. I am beggining to be an excpert on motels  now after three weeks. Motel Super 8 is not the best but cheep 45 bucks ( after som arguing)

I took some small roads throu towns and i realized that there was something special happening this weekend. Memorials day for all the fallen ones. I passed a street where they had some garage sale and i stopped and bouth myself a bodygaurd. I am going to need one now when i am going in to New York. Tiger is his name and he is the only one that is alowed to ride together with me on the bike.My bags look kind of hangy and it shows on the tyre that has not been layed down driving the latest days. I am not the biggest fan of US roads. They pavement are badly fixed and there are pottholes and small jumps every where.

The bike is up fore sale. i dont want to check it in on the fligth to Sweden....



Niagra falls

On the map everything loks so easy but all the towns are so big and there is so many roads and cars. Buffalo was a bad town and the heat realy doesnt make it easyer. My clothes are way to hot to where but they just have to do the rest of the way. At last i found Niagra falls and got my picture.


I am soon in New York..... Yes! I have seen so much but there is so mutch more to se.


Best fitness - Erie

Over 4000 miles is layed behind me and a try to take smaller roads when i have the posibilliti. I stop when i am tired or hungry. I drive throw so many towns and i can somehow feel good or bad energy around the town. This time i felt god energy...in Erie, a small town north of Cleavland. I found a nice restaurant and had some dinner, at the same time i asked them if the have a gym near by and they did. Best Fitness was the gym and it was big. Energy was ok. NO KETTLEBELLS here ether. Hmm! one houer strengthtraining and 30 min on the runningband.



Chicago - Oprahs town

I realy dont want to drive in big citys but the guys i met last night sad it is a nice town so i just had to se fore my self. The heat here realy kills me so i did look forward to sit down by the beach at the seaside drive so i headed all the way in to Chicago city. I could feel that it was getting coller when i got nearer to Chichago so i kept on going. Well i did find the beach and in the shade i sat down and ate my orange and looked out over the see. Some guys were passing me and i had to look twice and i saw right.....fast i need my camera!....yes i got it and look at this....



this is rediculus...



Better view the other direction. Down town Chicago way down there.

Golds Gym - Peoria Illinoi

Rain and Storm! not the perfect wether for a biker so i went to the lokal gym. Lokal! 2500 members, 2 floors, inside runing area. Perfect! I feel like home. Started with asking them if they had kettlebells....NO! Well lets do some traditional weithtraining and finish with cardio. They heared about my ride across the country and gave me a T-shirt so that i would remember my stop att there gym. Nice place and god atmosfhere. They made some great protein drinks. Yummy!



USA States

Nebraska: Green flat farming land,Cows...smell from cows, Warm, Windy, Flys...alot, Trucks,Trucks and Trucks, More green...well that is Nebraska. The land of the prerie. Oh i forgot to say that this is the first state were i have sen cowboyhats on. 350 miles almost 500 km. My stop tonight is in Omaha. I was wery determined to find a nice area so that i could take my jogg and i found it after i been circling for i while. 85 farenheit - 30 celcius is not the idel of temperature but it felt good after.



This is my visir after two hours.



My tripp so far.

Wind,fox and car

Today have been a day when everything could have happened but it didnt. I have not yet on my trip become scared that annything could happen but today everything happened. It began with a van with a trailer who started to change lane without notice me then a few hours later a fox ran out on the freeway just a few meters in front of me but luckely he turned back. Both those two insidences almost gave me an heartatack. The third thing today that realy gave me a fight was the wind. I had to lean against the wind to be able to drive on the freeway. It was hard work and i can feel it now that i am totaly exchausted.



BUT if you ignore all that, I have had a great day passing Aspen, Vail and all the other skiresorts on my way to Denver. Just east of Denver i turned north and drowe to Estes park. Wounderfull rout in the mountains NW of Denver.



Today i have passed/entered thre states: Colorado,Wyoming,Nebraska. The whethwer chanel are warning for storms and tornados in the north of Nebraska tomorrow just north of my destination. I hope i can pass it without any danger.

Moab - Utha, Mecha for Hiking,Biking,ATV driving etc.

South of Las vegas i meet a toingcar driver who sad that the drive north of LV is spectacular and i can agree with him. It is stuniching! I try to take the backroads as mutch as posible but the highways are not worse. With my camera i have tryed to capture some of the beutifull roads along my way. I will try to load them up on this site so you can se. Along the road 70 towards Denver i found one of the places that i never thouth i was going to find. the beutiy of the sites sometimes strikes me so hard that i can not hold my tears back when i drive. it is if someone just hits you with a bat over the chest. I didnt plan this trip so had no expectations. In Moab i did some hiking.....



pushups and



Meditation.


Las Vegas - Hoover Dam

Its allways a good feeling to move on but i realy dont want to leave the coast. Tha Vegas road is not much of a chalenge for the bike but we could go fast and we mostley had the wind from behind. I had no thougth of doing the strip of LV. My interest was finding Boulder city and the nice roads east of Vegas, and gues what i found more...The Hoover dam. I had not done my homework so it was a god suprise.

 


I also met this nice Canadian guy who was on his way home to Canada after a tour down in Mexico and Panama. He had some stories to tell he would never stop.

LA Hiking

LA traffic was terrible. If you dont know were to go stay in the middle lane, and if you dont know were you are stop. I didnt know were i was and ended up in chinatown. I asked a friendly chinese guy to help me find my way. After an hour i found my destination and could breath again. Downtown is not for me but it was intresting to se. The beuty about LA is that you are so near to everything. The mountains and the see. On Sunday Sharols son and some friends took me hiking. Warm but nice.


Waynes World

Emagine yourself a crazy fotball lover from England and youve got Wanye. Crazy,Livefull fotball coach from England. He played in Rotherham United in England and hes Favorite team is Sheffield Wednesday. Cmon u Fuckin Owls!
Thank You Wanye for a god ride to Santa Cruz and housing.


Golden Gate

For 120 dollar i realy wanted to use all the time i had in my room at the hotel so i didnt check out before 12. One hour powerwalk and 1 hour in the sunchair at the pool. Mmmm that was nice, i didnt go in the hot tub this morning because i saw a bird pop in it (not nice).
Well when i took of it was very warm and i just wanted to come to the coast. I had a hard time finding my way in to Somona but out was easier, i just folowed the sea smell and the fresh air. As you can tell i love the coast and the sea. I have never been driving on more beutiful roads than this. The curves will never end.
I realy didnt feel like driving around in San fransisco but i did take a tour down town and at the warfs and piers. I saw the hilly roads and all of that but after two hours i stared to get choked from all the cars and i had to leave town. South of SF i could breath again and i headed towards San Jose.
 I found some nice windy roads up in the mountains between the coast and the valley. The wether changes alot. Sun, wind and sudenly there came fog roling in across the road and it got realy cold and mystic and then after five minutes there were sun again. Wow!!!!  Dennis in Portland have a old time soccer friend in San Jose that took me in and today he is going to show me more beutifull roads down do Santa Cruz. Wayne got a K1200S I like that!




Do you like Kurves?

If yesterday was cold so did i forget it when i opened the curtains and saw the sun and the blue water. Before brekfast i went fore a powerwalk. When i came last night i dident se anything but the motel sign so it was nice to look around. A boy on the other side of the street sad " you walk fast" well thats the meaning of powerwalk. Otto the owner made some toast and coffe and i had company with a canadian cuple. 10 am i took of and i had no ide what was wating. Otto sad that i would have a nice ride and he was rigth. You who knows me know that i am afraid of hights and i can promise you that the roads were high abowe the water level. The view was so beutiful and at the same time frightening. Kurves and more kurves all day, what a day.


 A few miles north of San Fransisco i turned of road nr 1 and headed towards a little town called Sonoma in the wine district( between Santa rosa and Napa). A man at the gas staition gave me a tip to go here and i did reach it but i have a to bad map so it took me ages to get here. Next suprise was the rates of a motel. I have spend 55 - 60 dolars but in Sonoma a bed and brekfast cost around 120-150 dolars. Well i did get a bargain at Best Western ( 119 ink. tax) I will spare the last bit down in to San fransisco til tomorrow. I hope to have some nice fotos of me and Golden Gate. Evening spa at the hotel with hot tub and steam sauna made my body smile. A glas of Wine ofcaurse in the wine district but it would have been nice to share the moment with someone.


Klick it or ticket!

Yes! that is right..when you drive a car. But at least they can not stop ME for that.

This morning it was raining and i planed not to leave Brookings but after lunch the sun was shining and i didnt want to miss a hole day on my bike so i took of at 3 pm( after workingout at the lokal gym whitch didnt have kettlebells). It was a lovely drive down the coast and in Eureka i ate dinner. I looked at the map and were thinking that it would be nice finding a motell in Rockport on road nr 1. So i took of and the sun were going down but i gave gas. When i took of from road 101 and headed towards the coast i found a big suprise. The road was windy and narrow and when the sun went down it got realy cold and the moisture crawled in under my clothes. At one time i found the bike shaking but it was not the bike it was me.There was no other cars and the forest got realy close. I could feel my feer but i tried to focus on the road.20-25 miles i drove not faster than between 15-35 miles/hour. I thought that i never was coming to Rockport. And i didnt because Rockport dont exist exept on the map. I got to a motell in Westport....the only one. I was so cold. The only thing that wasnt frozen was my but. 220 miles today. I would like to do that F. road again when it is day and warm so i can enjoy it.Tomorrow it will be a nice drive by the coast and no more after sunset drives on the road. Next stop will be Nappa wally..wine district.

 Before i took of i walked to the fitnesscenter in Brookings called



It was a nice and traditional old gym. I asked if the had kettlebells witch they didint. He sad that i was the first person to ask for it and i ofcaourse told him that it would be a good ide to buy som and contact Spinach. We will se if he does. No inspiration..... i began 10 min running , 5 min rowing and then some modified kettlebelltraining with dumbells. I felt realy stupid in that gym doing my things so i ended up doing 20 min on the tredmill. I miss my kettlebells.


Last training with the gang

Friday 7 maj was my last day at the gym before taking of on my motorcykle. Michael suprised us with one of Sues workouts witch was harder than ever. I have met some wonderful people while i have been here and it was hard to say goodbye. It is not goodbye sad Dennis just say Nos Vemos ( se you again) and he is rigth. I will be back because i love Kettlebelltraining.


Brody,me and Dennis


Spinach - The kettlebell gym

Everyday is workout day but today was a hard workout day. Well i shall not complain. I know that this time will soon end and I will be back in sweden doing what i usually do. But rigth now this is my jobb and today i had to take a nap in the afternoon so that i could do the six class. Eat, sleep and workout..... well i am also waiting for my motorcykle gears from sweden to arrive so i can take of on my motorcykle. I am nervous but excited. I want to have time to se things along the way so i want to take of...NOW


This is the sign outside the gym.


My new friend Yamaha FZ6

My mission in Portland is competed and i am moving south on my new motorcykle. I will explore the training in Sanfransisco, LA, Vegas, Denver and alot of other places all around US. My goal is to reach New York before i go home. It is around 4500 miles to accomplish (720 mil). It is going to be hard work but i dont give up that easy. If the mc does not brake i will do it. follow me here. Today i did buy bags for my beauty but my computer does not fit so i have to get another one.



Todays training : Kettlebell in Pearl at 8 am. se the workout here below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2NVzY_AskM

Live workout at youtube

I found this great that i can show you my workout live because it realy does not show how hard it is in a photo. Today i ran to the gym in Tigard whitch is about 2-3 miles(4-5 km) away and back after the class. 40 min of running and 40 min warrior class. Feels god! se part of it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNJB1gB4VAg


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