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Photos taken between Miami, Florida and Tifton, Georgia.

Erik dropped his wife off at the Miami airport before sunrise and had a long haul by his lonesome up to Georgia where he reconvined with Kent and Troy.

Photos taken on the Florida Keys.

Chickens!

The SCMA USA Four Corner Motorcycle Tour website has been updated to include Erik as the 73rd official 2011 Finisher.

Erik is the 11th Idahoan to finish the tour according to the website's finishers log which dates back to 1983.

The tour is run by the Southern California Motorcycling Association (SCMA) and is recognized by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) as a sanctioned event.

Here is a list of all Idahoans to date to have completed the tour:

1987 - Kyle Mabe (Post Falls, ID)

1989 - Bill Pharness (St. Marie's, ID)

1990 - Robert Palmer (Lewiston, ID)

1994 - Billie & Gloria Cothern (Dalton Gardens, ID)

1997 - Darrel Beamish (Nampa, ID)

1997 - Ron Brown (Boise, ID)

1997 - Eldon Janzen (Nampa, ID)

1997 - Paul Ambeau Jr. (Homedale, ID)

2007 - George June (Post Falls, ID)

There was an iPhone security issue a while back where the OS would keep an unencrypted file with months and months of location data on your phone and in your iTunes' back-up files.

A cool visualization app was made that allows you to see a map of your stored location data.

A bunch of people freaked out and Apple released updates that both encrypted the location data and also shortened the time frame that was retained.

I purposefully stopped updating iTunes and my iPhone's iOS so these security updates would not be applied before the big trip.

The Rumors Are True

I am selling the orange 2007 Harley Davidson Road Glide that I rode during the tour.

It is a great bike that took me across this country and back with relatively no problems.

I consider it my trusty steed. I am quite fond of it and it is a lot of fun to ride, but it is just not my dream bike, and as hard as it is to let her go I best do it sooner than later.

So I am leaving it here in California and Kent will be handling the sale for me (thanks KC!).

Sadly, I will be taking the stickers off the bike shortly after posting this.

The ride is over.

We have moved past the point where we "live blogged" the best we could while doing the ride to the point where we will being filling in all the holes with more photos and stories and notes from our journey.

So if you continue to follow us you will see lot's of new postings, some with post-ride updates, some with photos and stories that seem out of order and maybe out of context, but in the end this site will be transformed into a tome - archiving our journeys for us.

We have 1000's of photos to look through and hours open hours of video and then also I have a near complete capture of our entire ride in a time-lapse video that I need to edit down into segments and prep for posting.

Kent once said that he said it might take him a year to go through what he has.  The great thing is that we have a place to put it as we organize it and find the gems we want to remember and share.

Friend of the Bike : Howard from Wisconsin

When I first rolled into Crescent City, CA I stopped at the first bit of ocean view to take a look. It's a beautiful harbor. I snapped some photos and was about to roll out when Howard pulled into the same spot on his bike.

I asked him how it was going and he told me that this was his first time seeing the ocean.

I was blown away.

He said that he had wanted to see the ocean and so he told his boss he was leaving and made it happen.

We talked for a bit and took some photos. I wanted to make sure the moment was captured for him.

Redwood State & National Parks

Amazing.

So much fun to ride through.