I have now returned to the US and it seems funny here now, but quickly is becoming home again! I finally prepared a map of the trip (still pretty rough). I realized later that the image I chose is an old one, but it works. So if you add Montenegro & Serbia you have the 30 countries I visited on the trip. Returning the bike to CK Moto in Haguenau was a breeze and was given the quoted price with no fuss! The total trip was 32,000 KM (20,000 miles).

Mickey Redmond once said, "You have to be lucky to be good & you have to be good to be lucky!" It has been wet and cold in northeastern France for a couple weeks, but just as I was bracing myself for it since I absolutely had to go there now, it got nice! After letting the Honda sit for 12 days (couldn't do that with the Road King in nice weather!) while hanging out at the sunny beach where I encountered a good case of skin damage, which most people call a tan, I got back on today and headed back to Soufflenheim to take the bike back and exchange it for a rental car. So on the way back I just had to get off the highway for a while and encountered the "Forteresse de Mornas", built sometime in the 11th century. OK, finally got a castle in there...