The Conclusion

They say all good things must end and this GREAT thing certainly has. It has taken a while to get to writing this for a couple reasons. I didn't want it to end and I got sick coming home.
We arrived back in the UK on Fri Oct 12. Sat morning a local motorcycle rider came by the hotel and took delivery of the trailer. I had posted it on the UK Ebay site and he was the winning bidder. We loaded it into the back of his van. Deb and I decided to do a trial run out to the airport and find out where we needed to go to check in etc on our departure day Wed Oct 17. We would be leaving the hotel in the predawn hours and wanted to be sure we knew where we needed to go. This would be the only time we would actually ride one of the famous doubledecker transit buses in the UK.

That adventure turned out very well and we also managed to check in with the airlines and get seats assigned for the flight.
Sunday we hoped to spend the day again sight seeing London but Deb managed to catch a cold and didn't feel good. So we stayed close to the hotel and spent the day reading.
Monday Oct 15 we left London and headed for Chester a little over 200 miles away where we were delivering the motorcycle to the dealer that was purchasing it. Not the bright sunny day we would have hoped for but it wasn't raining. The fall season has arrived and we managed some color even though most of this trip was on the motorway.

When we were sure we would make Chester by the appointed time we decided on a lunch break and were directed to a terrific English Pub, Dysart Arms.

Directly across the street from another beautiful old church.

Once finished with a truly wonderful meal we finished the journey to the dealer and completed the sale of the GL1800 motorcycle that gave us just over 6000 miles of a truly wonderful adventure.

We had a few hours before our train back to London so decided we would go back through the city of Chester and see if we could find a good book store. We saw some beautiful colors near the Chester Cathedral.

We walked back along the city wall where they had finished the renovations of the King Charles Tower.

We found a couple really nice books stores and picked up a couple for the plane ride home. We continued our walk headed for the Chester train station and crossed a bridge over the River Dee.

Chester being a relatively small city the train station was only a 10 minute walk from the city center and we arrived with plenty of time before we would board.

Tue Oct 16, our final day abroad and this time it was me that would feel the effects of a cold.  While we had planned to go into London and spend the day at the Tower of London, we instead spent the day entertained by thte departing aircraft from Heathrow Airport.

One final sunset before the journey home.

Our flight would take us over Iceland.

This amazing trip would come to a conclusion after 57 days covering just over 6000 miles.

The yellow highlight on the map above provides an overview of the entire route. I joking estimated that Deb took about 2000 photos during the trip. I wasn't far off as the count now is over 1800 and we have deleted many that were out of focus because of the moving motorcycle. She has already spent the better part of 3 days adding captions and has manage to get only half way through. She is working on putting together a slide show we can put on the web. We will be sure to let you know when that has been finished.
Until Next time, Adios