Roy Byrum Bolt II b. 1950

I took this photograph of my grandfather in Astoria Park, Queens. It was taken only a few days before he passed away. We were having a conversation while watching my mom collect pieces of colored glass that had washed up along the shoreline of the East River. He was only in New York visiting. We were one of the stops along a solo cross-country motorcycle trip that he had begun earlier in the summer. His journey started in Florida, where he headed west along the southern part of the U.S., through Monument Valley (we have proof, he had a GoPro camera attached to his helmet!), up to Seattle and back to the East coast. Though his trip ended too soon, he was still able to visit every one of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren along the way.