17,000 Mile Ride Report
It’s now been 17,000 miles and 4.5 months since I loaded up my V-Strom and headed out from Texas. I have now covered all of the western states and three Canadian providences. In fact I’ll be pulling into San Diego in just over two weeks for a temporary stop before riding again through October.
Saying Yes Is A Good Thing
Remember that post I did a while ago (ok just two weeks ago) about where I heading to next? Apparently, I don’t either because those plans changed nearly as soon as I hit the publish button. In fact most of that was written before I changed plans to go back to Lake Louise and didn’t put out a post for two weeks.
Nakusp Motorcycle Travel Meeting
If you can make me feel like a stay at home bum or someone that needs to find a job so that I can go see the world then it’s safe to say I’m in a place I want to be. That place was Horizons Unlimited West Candada meetup in Nakusp British Colombia. Horizons was the first site I came across when I start investigating motorcycle travel and one that I’ve gone back to many times since for information and inspiration.
100 Days of Bikes, Boots, and Blogs
I’m at the halfway point of Phase 1 of Brian’s World Destination Travel Plan. I just made that title up, needs some work. Still 100 days and a little under 12,000 miles have turned under my tires since leaving Texas in April. Speaking of which I have much needed NEW TIRES on my V-Strom!!! Woohoo for that.
Motorcycle Travel Isn’t Always Easy
Leaving the Alaskan peninsula I was on a high from all the animals I got to see, touch, and photograph. Not only that, but I had a plan. To sneak up to Dawson for their music festival then head to southern Alaska. It meant there would be some backtracking and seeing roads twice and I was ok with that. I had a few days to make it there in too.
Ride Report #4 – Upcoming Maintenance
I’ve traveled 8,000 miles on my V-Strom so far passing through 7 states and two providences. Or is it 7,500 miles and 800 kilometers now? I could have made it to this year’s destination of San Diego departing from the same point and going via Miami, Portland Maine, and Seattle with 500 miles left over to put that in perspective. Here’s the map of where I have gone instead and I’m not even halfway yet.
Where to Go and What to Do?
Open a map and put one finger in Texas and another in Alaska. Oh wait, maybe you need a different map. There’s a good chance that Alaska has its own little insert and not even where it belongs. In my atlas, Alaska and its 570,000 square miles loses 1/3 of its lone page to Arizona cities. While the only state before it, Alabama at 1/10 the size of Alaska gets two pages. Read more