So yeah to specify what happened.
The chain on my bike had gotten really worn, so it was much longer now than it was when I started this roadtrip. Chain got so long it just wouldn't stay on the rear sprocket. Called friend, since her father is a biker as well; this lead to him calling around to people he knew, and eventually some people from a local MC-club came and helped me get my bike to a garage where they helped me cut the chain so it was as short as it needed to be to stay on the sprockets properly. All this and I was still only 2 hours late to my friend's house.