"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not ...
Motorbike Roadtrip Tioga Pass to Incline Village
Leaving Yosemite at the 10,000 ft Tioga pass it was rapid descent to 5,000 ft with an equally proportional ascent in temperature. Yesterday we exited the Yosemite National Park through the west entrance, we passed over Tioga Pass which was 10,000 feet in elevation....
Yosemite National Park — Motorbike Road Trip USA
We departed Carmel, again in the cool weather, following the road north, with the the sand dunes shadowing us for a while, then we headed East. We followed the highway through lush agricultural land till the GPS ” Missy ” thought we needed to travel the backroads,...
Cannery Row & John Steinbeck
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” So wrote John Steinbeck, an author I first read as a teenage but for...
2009 American Trip In Summary – 5 Things
Mel’s five favourites: ROADS: Going to The Sun Road – Glacier National Park Montana Beartooth Highway – North east entrance to Yellowstone The highways heading east and west out of Cody Wyoming Highway 2 from Spokane Washington to Glacier National Park Montana Needles...
Washington State
A bit of local knowledge brought us the surprise of our trip – about 60 Klms south of the Grand Coulee, something we had not found in any of our research – The Dry Falls. During the last Ice Age about 14,000 years ago a waterfall, the largest ever known – apparently...
Deadwood and Custer’s Last Stand Battlefield
Deadwood, a town which in the 1800s was known for its lawlessness, and was a frontier Gold town. Deadwood is now the resting place of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickcock. A visit to the No 10 Saloon where Wild Bill Hickcock was shot is a must. We stayed in the...
The Tetons and Yellowstone National Park
Well where to begin, we have been pretty busy and have not had very good wireless connectivity, It is Sunday morning and we are having a veg morning to catch up on emails, we apologize for not sending an email earlier, We reluctantly left Glacier National Park – the...
SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! A Corn Palace, and The Badlands
Three hours riding south we arrived in the twin cities of St Paul / Minnesota for a day’s visit including St Paul Harley Davidson from where we have bought a lot of our accessories and clothing via mail order. We also visited the Mall of America, Chris was in seventh...
Home of the Turtle Races and the Headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi
Your mission should you choose to accept is to locate Longville on a map of the USA. Some clues – Population 180, located in Minnesota on Girl Lake about midway between the North Dakota border and Duluth on Lake Superior. Final clue, it is the turtle racing capitol of...
The Going To The Sun Road
Well two days ago as I stood astride the continental divide (see photo) facing north I realized that if I had a pee and quickly went from west to east all the left side would go via various creeks & rivers into the Columbia and out into the Pacific while on my...
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