Ken & Christine's USA trip 09: Last days in the USA -- Total travelled 8040 miles

As always when a holiday is close to ending there is a mixture of sadness that the adventure is almost over and excitement about seeing family and friends again (& probably boring them silly with photo's etc).

On our way back into LA this morning we went by Wing Stuff & picked up our bits & pieces, then headed to the Ramada where we were lucky enough to be able to check in at around 1.30pm.

Earlier we thought we might go out again, once in and unloaded however it didn't take long to decide to change and go for a walk instead. We'll fill the bike tomorrow morning & deliver to Eagle Rider bright & early, before deciding where to go or what to do for the last day and a half left in USA.

We have had a wonderful trip, with fantastic memories and look forward to sitting down and going through all the photo's and videos we've taken over the five plus weeks.

America is an absolute place of contrasts and beautiful scenery, the people we met were the kindest, most helpful and always smiling, there are flowers everywhere, on the main roads, growing naturally on back roads, everywhere in gardens and in shopping centres, the colors are fantastic, they are an absolute credit to the guys here, and the road system, in particular the maze of bridges/overpasses - it is all just incredible.

Finally, our thanks to our riding companions over the previous weeks, to Clint & Charleen for all your work done initially and for meeting up and riding with us from LA, and to Bob & Kerry, the weeks we had together were great fun. We've also loved keeping track of all of you via your blogs since we all split up & went our seperate ways. Thank you also to John Gilbert for all your help, we'll be seeing you soon and comparing notes I'm sure!

We look forward to catching up with all of you back in Australia.