I Quit my Job and Rode my Motorcycle to Sturgis! Sturgis 2022

I quit my job and rode my motorcycle to Sturgis! in 2021 I was unable to attend the Sturgis rally in South Dakota sue to a lack of PTO. exactly one year later, I rode my motorcycle 1,500 miles from Ohio to South Dakota to finally experience the famous #Sturgis Rally! Subscribe to ‪@LifeontheBlacktop‬ 🥰
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[@davidkbrees]

I'm of the older generation that believed you have to work for 40 years before you can quit your job and travel. Good for you that you are able to do it while you are still young. I have a number in mind and when my retirement account hits that number, that's when I hit the ejection button and hop on my Indian Challenger and hit the road! Till then I'll just have to be satisfied with my 3 weeks of vacation I can take in the warmer months for my trips.

[@steventwiddy3402]

I’m going to end up working till noon on the day of my funeral

[@glenspargo3376]

I am so glad you have a plan to retire and enjoy riding your Indian. Some people are afflicted with work. I lived with a workaholic for a while and had one for a neighbor and the older they get the faster and harder they have to work so it is a progressive thing - like a train starting from a dead stop and rolling down a hill. I hope you guys are just being sensible as a commitment to reach your retirement goals as they can be attainable - the other has no end but can still generate wealth to pass on to loved ones - so all is still good! The only negative side to workaholic activity is the frustration of others helping them and working with string, bailing wire, and duct tape because they are too busy "working" as that is what truly matters to them instead of doing a good proper job that is permanent and lasting. If you choose to not give them a hand at their futility they usually mutter to someone nearby that you are lazy, however that is not the case! Laziness of others becomes a theme of their's. They like to control others as that too is "work". Often in the workplace they are accused of being brown nosers but that is not really how they should be characterized. Their fears of not having anything to work on is lessened if a temporary job is always done, however the workplace requires perfection and they do well, besides there is real work to be done and pseudo jobs are not necessary. The older they get the more they worry about not having anything to do! I find them to be interesting, awesome people who have gained many life experiences along the way. Kudos to you guys! Unfortunately they can only talk to you at any length of time as they are working on something, otherwise they see you as inconsiderate for interfering with their life so it is almost impossible for them to sit down with a neighbor and enjoy a social visit. One time a very nice neighbor came over for a short visit and it was only a few minutes but when the visit was over I only heard comments of displeasure but except for workaholic fidget-working throughout the visit, it was one of the most enjoyable visits I had ever observed! Another bad part is in their very old age they are physically unable to do things - often bed ridden - and are so unhappy they often go on a hunger strike that ends their frustration and misery. I have never seen a workaholic cured of their affliction, but I have never seen one go through any kind of therapy. They do not seek help because they never see themselves as having a problem. Is there any way to help a workaholic cure themselves? I am only sharing my direct observances - I am not a psychologist or anything. Let us pray for them. Amen.

[@IronCavalier]

From Kentucky and this is true. Just had a guy at the store, earlier today, say that Kentucky has the nicest people. No strangers. Ride safe!!

[@glenspargo3376]

Yes, from Kentucky on south to the Gulf as long as you are not in a big city the people are so nice and friendly. So many snarky, whining, unfriendly, and scared people otherwise. This is while they are in "stranger" mode. I hope they retire to good areas an learn the therapy of good living!

[@harley06flstni1]

You and Doodle. I admire your bravery in quitting your job and doing what you want to do and doing it well.

[@williamforbes5826]

I drove cross country as a truck driver for years. Seeing the country and stacking up mile after mile. Some days I really miss it. Watching you makes me want to do it too! But on a big bike, not big truck. Good stuff, Jess. Congrats on a solid year of 'making it happen'!

[@richardmourdock2719]

Nothing like sensing the sites, the smells, the temps, the views of a motorcycle road trip. To the uninitiated who don't get it.... You never will unless you get on a bike.

[@williammiller9813]

I totally feel jess!! Honestly most people don't give anything a chance and just go for it Your legit a inspiration

[@MotorsandMetal]

This is goals, congratulations for having the courage to be able to take that leap!

[@leslieweslaski9537]

I am really happy for you probably the best decision ever! I went 2020 & 2021. 2020 hauled my bike, 2021 rode by myself from NC over 5000 miles round trip. I am a woman, I ride a Harley Fatboy and I did it alone packed my luggage and camped a week at Pactola Reservoir campground beautiful place. It's quite something, you can't explain the in moment feeling of riding a bike for 1000 miles a day. I learned after the fact about the "Iron Butt" challenge! Ha, c'est la vie I don't need an award! Lol

[@psalwasser]

I quit my job in 1994 and went to sturgis, too. my advice to anyone is do this right now. there's last weekend waiting for you!

[@jeffreyhanson2889]

Enjoy!!! Have fun. Looking forward for more of your trip! Thank you for sharing with us!

[@bigjohnson9561]

Congratulations on your new endeavor!!! I’m happy for you and wish you the best of luck. Keep up the great work!!!

[@boneandbeth1]

It’s so great to see how your channel is growing and you definitely are killing it keep up the good content

[@mikeburnett7028]

Enjoy your trip to Sturgis Jess. You’ve earned it

[@terencelee18]

This journey looked so fun!! Go Jess!!

[@justanotherviewer52]

Thanks for sharing Jess. Ride safe and have fun.

[@oldshd11]

Hey girl, I met y’all in Sturgis when y’all were hanging out people watching. You mentioned the heat on the way up but seeing it confirms we made the right choice to divert through Colorado from Texas. We already had hotels booked in Grand Island Nebraska that we couldn’t cancel but the heat this year was brutal and it was worth it! Anyway, hopefully next year the temps will be back to normal and don’t forget where I told y’all to look at staying in Spearfish to save money and maximize your days there.

[@jackhodges2571]

watching this makes me very jealous of you. I have wanted to ride Sturgis for 3 years now, but have yet to be able to. The group I ride with does 1 or 2 long trips normally every year. there is no way to explain the RUSH or FEEL when out there on the open road on the bike. Great video, thanks for allowing us to ride along.

[@tkathfan]

Congrats on your career choice! Really enjoy your content and personality! Enjoy Sturgis!😀

[@MrRobertoa1]

I think leaving your 10 years career was the best dissection you made. I have enjoyed all most every video you have made and have not been disappointed or even thought about unsubscribing your channel. I daily look for forward to your next video.

[@haneymoto]

Nothing better than seeing people live out their dreams and enjoying the success they worked so hard for. Love it Jess #SCREWTHEALGORYTHM

[@accountcontact7764]

Good for you! Super exciting new beginnings

[@BuzzLozsno]

Awesome video , thanks for sharing these videos 🤙🏼👍🏻

[@ronaldstillens4618]

I put close to 100,000 miles and 39 states on my 97 BMW, not to mention the miles from the other 5 bikes over 60 years. Twas wonderful!

[@RedOutlaw1911]

Hell yeah Jess great video!!!!

[@asphaltlou]

Great vid Jess. Looking forward to more!

[@1RaceLifestyle]

As a workforce manager that is also a motovlogger, I agree with your decision! ride safe!

[@OhioJimbo]

LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! What a GREAT video! Keep going!

[@R3N1R3N]

You're killing it with your channel dude. Rock on 👊✊️

[@jdhogyellowhelmetproductio358]

COOL! Glade you had fun!!!!

[@KeViNMCMXXCIX]

Good stuff! Let's go! Enjoy and ride safe!

[@mfrazier0412]

@Her Two Wheels I think what your doing is amazing! 😎. Keep going young lady and don't ever stop!

[@reauxdom255]

Congratulations. Have confidence in yourself and your decisions to pursue your life's adventures.

[@kevinberard9185]

Another good video. Loved those cats. I like that you don't riding alone too meet up with friends. Ride safe 🙏.

[@shawnmaxwell1221]

Glade to hear that you made it. Good that you have friends to ride with to the rally. Enjoyed the video of your trip soo far. Ride safe! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@HerTwoWheels]

Me too! They have been the BEST!!

[@randomstuffwithjoe]

That was a fun video. I'll have to live vicariously thru you and some other vloggers this year. Next year will be my year to get out to Sturgis. :)

[@michealcornett7564]

You are doing it girl !!! Yes 👍 I’m loving it 😍 Dang keep it up 👍!!!!!!!

[@anthonybrincefield2812]

NW Ohio here , I’m riding to Sturgis via your videos, thank you!!!!

[@adamnash3914]

Love it. Keep it up!

[@marvinr5054]

My best friend is just a few hundred miles behind you I'm so jealous of all of you that are able making this trip. I wish all of you a safe trip. God bless your travels.

[@YogiHarleychick]

Wonderful editing ! I really enjoyed this🤘🏽

[@kevinsiscoe7580]

Thanks for your view of the Murray Baker bridge in Peoria Illinois!

[@heyitswesty]

Living the dream. We're proud of you.

[@360chris88]

Great video jess thanks I really enjoyed it

[@itube4012]

Congrats, you deserve it. I wish you lots off fun in your new lifestyle 😎

[@hereweare643]

You do a great job of your videos. You have inspired me.

[@MrJohnpmeadows]

So happy that you get to go

[@johnhenderson299]

You go girl and have fun Sturgis is a great time

[@19MadMax98]

Loved the video. Keep it up👍🏼

[@roymusejr5939]

Looks like you are having a blast...Car Henge is cool...The heat definitely sucks...Be careful and be safe 😎✌🏻🇺🇸

[@jakeaurelius5600]

Awesome job! , your killing out there !!

[@G_RAThbun]

Glad to see you did it while you could I started riding to Sturgis in 1990 he gets rougher every year. Good on you

[@quickshoe6]

Awesome, living the dream. Rock on

[@gasmann6746]

Looking forward to seeing your trip enjoy wish I was going there myself..👍🏻🇦🇺

[@flyingunicycle]

I-80 into Omaha can be pretty confusing! Good video Jess!

[@user-ku8pz6gz2g]

Looking at your bike Jess, it’s totally awesome, I just love the way you got it set up, Jeff from KY

[@MidLifeStyleTwins]

My dream too…quit my full time job to do what you are doing. You go girl!!! Love your channel. I am from Danville IL.

[@barrygee4888]

I watched your whole goes west series. Really enjoyed. you are some tough gal. especially the ride home.

[@HerTwoWheels]

The ride home was brutal 😂

[@shanemorrissey7514]

Well done for quitting your job and following your heart to do your own thing.

[@sammy2840]

Good for you! Quit my corporate job when my buddie called me at 3:30 one Fri afternoon and popped a beer in the phone. Let me know it was 75 degrees and he was in the middle of Lake Minnetonka! Became a consultant the next week! Never looked back!

[@hadespaganism2405]

I am glad you quit that job and enjoy your life riding around the country meeting new people and seeing the beauty on two wheels 😉 later Hades & Witchypoo from NC

[@zurnie]

Welcome to the Black Hills. Riding through the heat reminds me of a trip I took in 2003. I met up with 150 Honda VTX riders in Denver. The Cali contingent rode through Death Valley in the middle of the night at 105 degrees. When I rode home after the event Neb and So Dak were bouncing around 109 to 111 degrees. I stopped every 70 to 100 miles to top off the gas, bought two bottles of water. I chugged one bottle. The other got dumped down the back of my leather coat. With the sleeves unzipped it turned it into a swamp cooler for another 70 miles.

[@timpederson4350]

Love Carhenge! Quirky weird but you will be talking about it forever! Great ride to Sturgis … We live about 5 hours away in North Dakota so we get down to the Hills a few times a year. Great riding. Beautiful country. We experienced the heat Thursday/Friday before rally. Rough. Sturgis is biker Mecca! Enjoy your videos!

[@matthewcarlacci]

I didn't know it at the time but me and 3 of my friends road through a tornado warning last year in Minnesota going to Sturgis. quite the experience enjoy your time there!

[@identitybiker]

Just watched both channels, videos. Good to see the edits are totally different keeping the viewed interested.

[@trevorcothran3273]

Love it keep it up your doing great have fun

[@williamwatson4110]

Riding your bike the best .Day night rain wind nice bike .

[@fingers215]

Looking for happiness is never wrong just don't be reckless about it. Nobody will ever regret not working more but people regret not living all the time.

[@takethat863]

You guys inspire me so much I'm going to Sturgis coming from Philly I'll be there Tues

[@AllboroLCD]

For these kinda trips, Id say the modular helmet is the way to go. Anyways, looks like good fun!

[@beardedkountry]

I dont see the ads, thank god. I just get to watch with no interruptions!

[@darkiee69]

Jess, beside all the new gear you got to stay cool and don't pass out, try compression socks too. You're sitting down a long time on the bike and that can affect the circulation.

[@jillmcnaughton2961]

The fact that you wave at the cows, makes me love you even more. 😂🤣😂

[@danivalgomescardoso986]

Parabéns Jéssica Bela pedalada.

[@suzukisav]

Just discovered you! Looking forward to watching your epic post-sturgis adventure.

[@donrice8026]

we run into that in 1982 on the way west it was so hot one we stoped riding about 2/00 p.m. stoped and got a room got up at midnight and hit the road HAPPY TRAILS

[@hd_ultrajay1959]

Great video and glad you survived lol

[@BLAZE-oq7md]

Ye only get one go at the journey..fear nothing..press on..blessings to you 🙏

[@LikeSubscribeFollow]

great job ridn that thing... makes me want to do that next year :)

[@ChaseJasperDown]

I can’t wait to get another bike and do what you do. That ride looked really fun except for the 105 degree temperature. It’s not even that hot in Florida!

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

You’ve got some BIG BALLS to just take a leap of faith and leave a fkn job 😴 and follow a dream 😀 Something 99.9% of ppl would dream about but only a few would commit to it. Lots of respect Keep the content rolling along RAIN GEAR SUCKS

[@Sly_Glide]

Sorry we missed you in Omaha....ride safe!!

[@hockey8784]

Awesome jess kudos for quitting your job and doing what u love live to ride….

[@MrFatkevin]

I think that leather saddlebag lid covers in Appa brown would look really cool and protect your lids when you are loaded for long trips.

[@pipedreampercherons]

Love it out there. Don't know if I'll ever want to deal with Sturgis, but I will ride out in SD and WY at some point.

[@mandyk728]

I love how you wave to all the cows!! 🐮 👋🏻

[@martinfranco2855]

Muy agradable está rodada. Suerte y a divertirse.

[@amasdaha9734]

Welcome to RapiD City!! I hope to see you later today or tomorrow at the meet up! 😉

[@yasslogh]

I’m subscribing just because you had the balls to quit you’re job 💪💪💪💪❤️

[@fairworld2522]

Your smile is so intoxicating No one can’t take their eyes of you..😀

[@rodzimmerman1979]

I've ridden in those temps before and it is brutal. It takes everything out of me and it's not fun! hats off to the passenger on your traveling mates. It is way harder to ride all day on the back than the front. once your in back there you can't move to stretch your legs or change your butt position. My wife can't do it at 5'10". She rides her own and complains like hell if she has to ride anywhere on the back of mine. Stay safe!

[@Michaelobama184]

I took a Big Truck to Sturgis in 2000 and I dropped my trailer at a little fuel stop in town and Bobtailed over to Mt Rushmore and parked next to the busses. I was a few days to early. Damn. But it was nice

[@michaelmiller5465]

I love n mom does n 85 year old gma watches too u inspire me n them been watching since day one we live in huntington West Virginia asome place love see meet u I'm biggest fan love n be safe may lord be with u on your journeys

[@ravengrady278]

I’m so tempted to go hop on my bike and go ride after watching this video!

[@billcobb9408]

Did you know you can push your volume button straight in and hold it until the screen changes, use the right handle bar button and push it in to scroll left and right. When the screen changes you can see the ambient temperature. It will show trip info and more. You can KZbin it.

[@topher7720]

I'm sitting here watching your video in my living room waiting until Thursday so I can get on my bike and ride from Southern Illinois back up to Sturgis I can only catch the last couple days of it but that's okay I've been wanting to ride up there without all the people anyway like I did last year and it was a mess. I loved it but there was a hell of a lot of people. And by the way dear you do what's best for you and nobody knows what's best for you but you take care and happy riding! And by the way I can relate to the job deal because I can't leave until Thursday morning because of my job lol!

[@raddrider4466]

I know you are getting ready for Sturgis again. You did a great video on riding in hot weather (and a year ago was ungodly hot). I'm guessing your cooling system failed since you are seen later jacket less (which you don't normally do). I would love to see a follow up video. Cooling system vs. mesh jacket vs. no jacket vs. riding shirt. You've piled up so many miles in all types of weather that your insight would be great.

[@juliysmith4598]

2 minutes in and all I keep thinking is, "go Jess GO!!" Big smiles and safer travels!

[@bobellis2912]

Looking forward to your vids on Sturges. This year is a no go for mr, but next year is a a definite possibility. I’m starting to realize, life is way too short.

[@jameshenderson7224]

Man we rolled through NE on the way to SD from VA last Monday. I had a 106 to 108 temperature for the last 2.5 hours before we got to Custer.

[@johnherian781]

Glad you went through my home town of Alliance,Ne.