Oh, right, so..... I did it! I mean, I crossed the country, everything went great-ish (Finding camp spots turned into a bit of a conundrum and I was improvising and finding something last second literally every night shortly into the trip. but that added to the learning experience). What an incredible experience! I'd highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend anyone who has a motorcycle doing some open road therapy. AND- better yet, I even have my story being published in Motorcyclist Magazine, which I'm pretty excited (read as: self conscious) about, haha:
http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/au...iffani-burkett (shameless plug)
Although that blog link covered it too.
I did end up finding very little in the south, I stopped at a lot of places I didn't intend to, and ran into some cool roads I didn't know would be cool, and it was seriously the best thing ever. I'm now planning a full tour of the remaining states, because I'm thoroughly addicted to the road
Totalled in at 9000 miles, 31 days, and 14 states
Oh, and the south east (except for florida and the dragon) were awful, haha