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Friday, August 19, 2016
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Day -2 blog
We are fast bearing down on the (bitter) end of this great trip. We made Yakima and camped out, once again, at our favorite campsite Holiday Inn. We saw the deserts of Washington (who knew??) and that was about it for the long day. Next we went out to the coast of Washington and over the Astoria bridge to Oregon Where we camped at the Shiloh Inn in Tillamok. It was a long day and we crashed early. The next two days were spent driving down the coast of Oregon (AWESOME) and parts of the California coast with a diversion through the redwoods as well. Tonight we are actually camping (oh we did last night too at Turtle Rock) in Petaluma and tomorrow we are going to cross the golden gate bridge and then head down big Sur. Tons of memories and experiences almost too overwhelming but over time we will decompress all the various parts of the trip.
This is likely the last post, but I'll post lots more pictures and video once I get home. I took a bunch of it on my regular camera and my laptop died on the trip so I can't xfer it until then.
As Ken Phillips would say.... CIAO!!
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
Day -7 blog
Since I have no desire to figure out what day it is and since we are closer to the end than the beginning of this trek, I opted for "day minus" for the blog posts going forward. The ride through Bear Tooth pass was amazing. Got up to a hair short of 11000 feet with views that a mere camera cannot do justice to. We pulled a long day of riding and made it up to Great Falls Montana (it's on the ugly side of the Rockies).
The next day we rode through Glacier National Park on Going to the Sun Road. I can't stress this enough...if you haven't done that road (car or bike matters not) you must make it happen. The sights will leave you breathless. I believe and I'm sure there will be detractors, that Glaciers Logan Pass beats the Grand Canyon for scale and beauty...but only by a very small margin.
Down the other side and along Flathead Lake we finally found an open campsite to bed down in. After setting up camp we took a dip in the lake and then got a fire started. Four dudes sitting around a fire smoking cigars and drinking , that is pretty hard to beat after a good day of riding. We crashed early because tomorrow we gotta lay down some miles. Yakima?....maybe further...off we go.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
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