There and back again
June 30, 2006 (originally posted on the Fatboy Road Journal)
Los Angeles is in our sights for this weekend. At about 3,300 miles, this will be our longest trip on the bike and will probably have several days where we exceed 750 miles - which was the total distance of a one-day ride back from Florida that Bean and I did last month.
We leave this afternoon sometime and will try to get to New Mexico tonight via Lubbock and Clovis. Tomorrow we will cross New Mexico and Arizona, running mostly on I-40, with perhaps a jaunt onto Route 66 to get our kicks on the way into Kingman, Arizona. The goal is to get to Needles, California by Saturday night.
Sunday morning we'll have a fairly short ride through the Mojave Desert and into Los Angeles. We'll attend the wedding of a friend in Hollywood on Sunday night and then start making our way back on Monday morning. We'll take a northern routing through Las Vegas, the Valley of Fire and into and along the Northern Arizona/Southern Utah routes through Zion National Park, Kanab, Marble Canyon, the Vermillion Cliffs, Monument Valley, into Cortez, Colorado and east towards Pagosa Springs. This will probably be the most scenic part of the trip.
From there, and by now we should be into Tuesday, we'll turn south and run down into New Mexico through the Chama Valley, across the Rio Grande Gorge and on into Taos. We'll be turning left to go clockwise around the Enchanted Circle before getting to Eagle's Nest and then it's a pretty straight (albeit long) shot from there back to Dallas via Amarillo and Wichita Falls.
New items for this trip include rain gear for Bean, rain sheeting stuff for the windshield, a Corbin touring saddle with adjustable backrest for the passenger, a Kuryakyn Full Dresser bag that holds lots of stuff and is pretty rigid, gloves that should be good for riding long distances in hot weather, a 12 volt outlet I installed and some desert-riding clothing. Most of these items are refinements from our trip (which I have not blogged about) last month out to Fort Walton Beach, Florida (as you can tell from the list, we got rained on).
The bike is loaded and ready to go. So are we. Phone coverage will be limited, but I'll try to post via my blackberry as we progress.
Los Angeles is in our sights for this weekend. At about 3,300 miles, this will be our longest trip on the bike and will probably have several days where we exceed 750 miles - which was the total distance of a one-day ride back from Florida that Bean and I did last month.
We leave this afternoon sometime and will try to get to New Mexico tonight via Lubbock and Clovis. Tomorrow we will cross New Mexico and Arizona, running mostly on I-40, with perhaps a jaunt onto Route 66 to get our kicks on the way into Kingman, Arizona. The goal is to get to Needles, California by Saturday night.
Sunday morning we'll have a fairly short ride through the Mojave Desert and into Los Angeles. We'll attend the wedding of a friend in Hollywood on Sunday night and then start making our way back on Monday morning. We'll take a northern routing through Las Vegas, the Valley of Fire and into and along the Northern Arizona/Southern Utah routes through Zion National Park, Kanab, Marble Canyon, the Vermillion Cliffs, Monument Valley, into Cortez, Colorado and east towards Pagosa Springs. This will probably be the most scenic part of the trip.
From there, and by now we should be into Tuesday, we'll turn south and run down into New Mexico through the Chama Valley, across the Rio Grande Gorge and on into Taos. We'll be turning left to go clockwise around the Enchanted Circle before getting to Eagle's Nest and then it's a pretty straight (albeit long) shot from there back to Dallas via Amarillo and Wichita Falls.
New items for this trip include rain gear for Bean, rain sheeting stuff for the windshield, a Corbin touring saddle with adjustable backrest for the passenger, a Kuryakyn Full Dresser bag that holds lots of stuff and is pretty rigid, gloves that should be good for riding long distances in hot weather, a 12 volt outlet I installed and some desert-riding clothing. Most of these items are refinements from our trip (which I have not blogged about) last month out to Fort Walton Beach, Florida (as you can tell from the list, we got rained on).
The bike is loaded and ready to go. So are we. Phone coverage will be limited, but I'll try to post via my blackberry as we progress.
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