Welcome back to my cross-country trip for the 2024 ‪@LifeOfBurch‬ meet-up ride. This is a raw edit of my return trip on Sunday and Monday after the group meet-up. I'll try to publish the "production" version on my primary channel soon. Skip around with the chapter markers below.

The weather was wet and crappy again on Sunday. I rode out of it for a while in the afternoon, but it returned late Sunday night and slowed my progress. I decided to skip the stress and danger of riding at night in the rain by stealth camping at the Alabama welcome center. That was a mixed success, but I did manage to get a few hours of shuteye.

Monday's ride was mostly dry, but the rain found me just inside of Texas. The trip total was 3185 miles, and my Michelin Road 5/6 tires still look brand new. The rear tire is just starting to square-off in the center, but it's on track to last ~10K miles or more. However, my posterior didn't fare nearly as well... my butt flattened out more than my rear tire, and the Levi's tattoos are still firmly branded into my cheeks. 🤣👍

Time indexes:
0:00 Leaving Riva on rainy roads, @OnTheRebel11 game me some new rain gear!
5:12 Meandering my way back to Houston, not a crazy 1500-mile solo this time
9:40 Thanks so much for the live stream donations! 🙏👏
12:10 Ideas for new meet-ups, locations & scheduling?
17:09 Splitting off from the boys and heading west into Virginia
22:12 Stopping at Cracker Barrel for late breakfast
27:56 Rain clouds over the Blue Ridge Mountains
30:36 Waiting out a thunderstorm and rainbows in Meadows, VA
37:45 Narrow escapes from raging cagers, and avoiding state troopers
42:06 Welcome to Tennessee! Navigating with paper maps vs GPS
50:11 Checking in from the road just south of Chattanooga
51:55 Thunderstorm in the dark, stopping to put on the rain gear
1:09:02 Quasi's stealth camp at the Alabama welcome center
1:13:58 Hitting the road again, Murphy's Law for work tasks
1:16:21 Full stop Birmingham highway traffic
1:22:45 Surface street tour through the hood in Birmingham?
1:31:03 Meeting Jason (a channel subscriber) at Huddle House for breakfast!
1:35:11 Welcome to Mississippi! My a$$ hurts, old man disease?
1:42:24 Rerouting and skipping the super slab
1:49:52 Traveling the USA back in the 1950s-60s before interstates?
1:56:35 Stopping for a leg stretcher in Hazlehurst, MS
2:06:27 My idea of a perfect Sunday ride, missing the "good old days"?
2:17:08 Retirement plans are looking bleak
2:20:10 Men's Mental Health?
2:21:23 Passing the Natchez Trace Parkway, playing routing games with Garmin
2:28:00 Retracing my steps on the CT125
2:30:33 I met an amazing Mississippi constable while stranded here in July 2022
2:41:48 Windy and rainy crossing into Texas, full stop traffic jam
2:49:20 Welcome back to Houston and 85 mph traffic
2:52:33 Home again, ride recap, and I'm ready to take a shower!
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