Possible Premature End of Trip

Checked into the motel in Big Timber, MT to find several phone messages from my brother and sister. My 84-year-old mother had emergency ulcer surgery last night. The surgery was successful but her blood pressure is very low and she's terribly dehydrated. As of this moment the major danger sounds past, but we won't know, or feel better, until her blood pressure goes up and she is re-hydrated. I'll be heading to Salt Lake City tomorrow to leave my bike with Bob while I go to Florida. Trip may be postponed, or over. Just don't know right now.

But, for what it's worth, it's been a great ride, even with the "bad" events (excluding this last one). A trip like this is just like life: it has the good, the bad, and the ugly. You enjoy the former and endure the latter two. Just as in life.