Lower 48 Complete

On September 15th 2023, I crossed the border of my 49th state. Oregon completes the lower 48 states portion of my life long itinerary for visiting all 50 states. Only Alaska remains. I'm pretty sure that visit will not be on a motorcycle. The globe looks small when it is reduced to a map, but compared to a speck on two wheels, the distance is adversarial.

As a result of the intimacy between myself and Nature, an idea was born somewhere between the mountain ranges and the ancient ocean floor of the West. It entered my mind that it would be an interesting business to use a tour bus like rock stars to to travel between gigs like a rolling BnB. It could drag a trailer full of motorcycles and gear. The rolling BnB (RBnB), would carry its guests across vast distances to motorcycle excursion attractions. So, when the RBNB comes into the vicinity of a fun place to ride, the guests would take the motorcycles and the RBNB operator would meet them on the other end of the ride. This is the idea for a business, but the idea could be for an RV owning couple too. One spouse could ride while the other drives the RV to the other end of the excursion. It's something to think about. I'm not good at creating alliances or cutting through bureaucratic red tape that creating a legal business takes. This child is born. All I need is partner(s) to help raise it.

Something else that entered my thoughts and distracted me from the drudgery of the wind gusts: People poo poo EV's over range anxiety. Out in the middle of nowhere, I suddenly became aware of the extreme number of cycles that many moving parts endure to transport a motorcycle and operator with an internal combustion engine over thousands of miles. At some point it's going to break. I know EV's aren't up to par when it comes to long distance travel (yet), but really cognitive bias has to be masking range anxiety that should lurk in the minds of ICE operators. Moving parts wear out and have defects and there is no guarantee.

Lastly, for this post, I noticed the ancient ocean floor in the inter-mountain West is covered by sage brush and white-ish mineral sands. There has to be at least a couple of giga-tons of lithium among other minerals laying on the surface of the deserts. I don't know. I'm not a geologist or a chemist, but I'm guessing their could be a battery chemistry out there that is yet undiscovered. Somebody should get on that idea.





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