That picture is my VERY Favorite of the trip - we rode a little over 4,200 miles in just under 2 weeks.
We set off from my friend's house in Kingsport TN, rode up to Chicago for the start of 66, then onto St. Louis etc etc along 66 (riding the old historic pavement wherever we could) as far as Tucumcari NM.
Then North up through Colorado to Eagle - visited Red Cliff (my Great Great Grandfather founded the town of Red Cliff in 1879, and he was Town Marshall) - very exciting to see the place, his grave in the little cemetery, and the old town hall and jailhouse where he worked (condemned and closed down now, but still there!). We then rode through Denver, through Kansas, back into MO and St. Louis again, then down to Nashville, and back to Kingsport. BOY do I have some amazing photos!!!
We chilled for two days, then on the Fourth of July we went for a ride in Shady Valley, TN. The front wheel bearings collapsed in a VERY tight left hander, I ended up going to the right and into the guard rail (at approx a stratospheric 25MPH). My right foot caught on one of the posts for the Armco, snapped off the footpeg, and turned my foot around 180 degrees facing backwards. This spiral broke my tib and fib, and tore the crap out of the calf muscle and tendons etc. then momentum took me over the rail, snapping the tib and fib again further up (and poking bones through the side of my leg), and shattered my tibial plateau into many pieces.
As I went over the rail I bounced on top of it, breaking 3 ribs and dislocating my collar bone.
Surgery was done at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol TN. Two weeks there and I was medically escorted and flown home to England.
I have gruesome photos if anyone wants to see them...
Couple of pix in the Rocky Mountains, northern CO....