Welcome home my friend.  Special thanks to Glacier Cyclery of Whitefish, MT and Trek Bicycles of Raleigh for getting my Superfly back to me save and sound.

 I reassembled it, and road it around for a little while this evening.

It felt perfect, and brought a smile to my face.

And tears to my eyes.

And with that, the adventure that is, or was, Tour Divide 2012 has come to a close.

Man.

It was fantastic.  So far beyond what I expected it would be.  I learned so much about myself.

Truly the best cycling event of my life.

Keep Choppin' everyone.

Just.  Keep.  Choppin'.

I didn't take many pictures during the trip, but this one I took in Canada about 50 miles from the start really struck me. It sums up the feeling of vastness and smallness of riding thought such immense terrain....





Just a bike & a guy with diabetes from Durham.....




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As I sit here with Diane back in Boston, I cannot even begin to express my emotions from the outpouring of message of encouragement, love, and well wishes from one and all.

The DOC is truly an amazing family. One I am blessed to be part of.

Although my foot is broken, I am awaiting a MRI in the next day or two, and I didn't achieve my goal of reaching the termination of the Tour Divide route I still feel successful.

I had 5 main goals for this years event:

- Pedal out of Banff, AB CA

- Get passed the place where I almost lost my life last year

- To reach the US in 2 days

- To get to the Mexico / NM border

- Raise awareness of all types of diabetes during the event

Four out of five of those goals have been completed. And for that I am grateful and happy.

Over the next couple of days I will be writing in more detail about the best aspects of this event - and there were tons - on this blog. There is much to share.

For this evening I really wanted to express my deepest thanks for always being there for me, especially over the past two years of Tour Divide attempts.

I am blessed to know the members of the Diabetes Online Community and am honored to be one of them.




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Was told to get some blood work for my blood draw A1C test (6.4 w/ finger prick test btw), and to complete my entry into a clinic trial I volunteered for.




Yes. I do believe I filled all this up.

A big thanks to all at the UNC Diabetes Care center with setting these pre- this up.

Unfortunately one of the many, many faces of diabetes....

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Route maps with waypoints and noted have been created, and are currently being downloaded to my GPS device.

Map number 64 is the end of the line....




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