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I just finished recording a song I started writing on a 2,000 mile motorcycle trip in the summer of 2007. The first ideas for the song popped into my head somewhere between Vale and Baker Oregon, during the On the Edge Project. I remember that day pretty well. I woke up at 4 am on a ranch in Jordan Valley to shoot some video and photographs of ranch life. It was hot, about a 100 degrees. We where about halfway through the trip and I was starting to feel the combination of high temperatures and lack of sleep. I was feeling a little home sick, then all of a sudden I started singing this tune inside my helmet, rollin down the highway got miles to make before we're through... I must have been delirious. I kept singing the lyrics over and over trying not to forget the melody. When we finally got pulled over I franticly scribbled the fragments of song ideas onto a piece of crumpled paper, stuffed it into my tank bag and went on my way and promptly forgot what I was singing. Once the trip was over I didn't give much thought to the song. It wasn't till about 6 months later when I started my Riding the Edge website that I thought it would be cool to have a song, a sort of theme song for the site. Then I remembered the scribbled piece of paper I stuffed in a pocket in my tank bag. I wondered, could it still be there after all this time? Sure enough, it was crammed way back into the pocket. A year later I had finished The Long Way Home for my website. I guess you could call this a ride music video.
