Category: Motorcycle

  • Day 8 – Arcata to Coos Bay

    Back to the hard miles as we make our way back north.  The big prize today was the miles between Crescent City and Brookings.  That was the lone stretch of US Route 101 that we didn’t do in our rides last year so it felt good to get that taken care of.  So now we…

  • Day 7 – Redding to Arcata

    Today could have turned out horrible.  When we were in Susanville a cyclist that we’d met at the hotel had told us about CA Route 299.  I hadn’t really planned on coming out to the coast mainly because we’ve ridden most of it already and the weather can be a bit flaky.  However, there is…

  • Day 6 – Susanville to Redding

    We had planned another short riding day to give ourselves a break.  Our plan was to leave Susanville and stop at the Lassen Volcanic Monument to check out the visitor’s center and maybe swing by the sulfur springs.  After that we’d head into Redding and call it a day. The volcanic gods wanted to keep…

  • Day 5 – Lakeview to Susanville

    We awoke in Lakeview to the sound of trucks rumbling past our hotel window.  We went to bed knowing that we were in a corner room closest to the intersection so it wasn’t a complete surprise.  The thing that was a surprise was just how comfortable the Tempurpedic mattress was.  When we were looking for…

  • Day 4 – Crane to Lakeview

    “Now wait a minute,” you may be asking yourself.  “This route isn’t southeast into Nevada.  This route looks to be headed southwest into California.”  Right  you are my astute map readers.  The same band of roving merry makers that had settled in John Day had moved their silliness to Winnemucca.  Every hotel that we looked…

  • Day 3 – John Day to Crane

    After waking in the hotel of despair we headed to the same restaurant we had dinner at mainly because they had a working Internet connection and we needed our fix.  There we had an awesome breakfast (much better than dinner), and plotted out our day.  With a unanimous vote we decided on a short ride…

  • Day 2 – Yakima to John Day

    So I’m writing this on my iPhone because apparently John Day is the most interesting town in eastern Oregon. “How do I know this,” you might ask?  Simple.  Every hotel in this town is packed.  Had we not called ahead to the one we’re in now we would have been staring at the stars.  Alright…

  • Day 1 – Home to Yakima

    If you read my previous post you’d know that we had an awful lot to do this morning so a late start goes without saying.  Thanks to my slacking there were several nasty surprises.  First and foremost was the GPS power cord.  Over the last year the connector that plugs into the GPS had become…

  • Day 0.5

    It is the night before our longest road trip ever. Originally the plan had been to ride up to Alaska and then take the ferry system back down. After some serious thinking I’d decided that something in then lower 48 would probably be a bit more reasonable. First, we wouldn’t be as rushed. Second, this…

  • Wandering Around The West – Recap

    What a trip.  Would I do it again?  Of course.  Would I change anything?  Yes. The planned lack of plan mostly worked OK.  Where it helped was that there wasn’t an overriding sense of urgency to get to the next destination to “check it off the task list” along the way.  Where it didn’t help…