Day 3 Date: 06/04/2016 Saturday Starting Location: Pahrump, NV Ending Location: Mesquite, NV Starting Odometer: 7457 Ending Odometer: 7650 Mileage Today: 193 Miles Mileage Total: 812 miles All about today… Last night I stayed at the Pahrump Nugget hotel. For many years I’ve attended High Performance Driving Events at a number of different tracks. One […]
Category: 2016 X-Country Adventure
Day 2 Date: 06/03/2016 Friday Starting Location: Bridgeport, CA Ending Location: Pahrump, NV Starting Odometer: 7097 Ending Odometer: 7457 Mileage Today: 343 Miles (All riding done in Torres del Paine) Mileage Total: 619 miles All about today… It’s another early morning for our weary traveler. (Hmmm, this seems a bit overstated, as this is only […]
Day 1 Date: 06/02/2016 Thursday Starting Location: San Carlos, CA (Paul’s House) Ending Location: Bridgeport, CA (Hotel) Starting Odometer: 6842 Ending Odometer: 7114 Mileage Today: 268 Miles Mileage Total: 276 miles All about today… Yesterday, I departed from Belmont, CA and made my way to Paul’s house in San Carlos, a short 4 mile trip. […]
Day 0 Date: 06/01/2016 Wednesday Starting Location: Belmont, CA (Lea’s House) Ending Location: San Carlos, CA (My Home) Starting Odometer: 6838 Ending Odometer: 6843 Mileage Today: 4 Miles Mileage Total: 4 miles All about today… Today was all about finalizing my move, and getting my household goods packed up, and shipped to South Carolina. I’d […]
The going away speech At the going away party about a week and a half ago, I was really happy to see so many good friends, and to hear them all wishing me well on my trip. As I’ve been known to do, I decided to make a little speech, and in that speech I […]
A brief intro… I’m down to just a few days left before I begin the trip. I thought that some of you might be wondering where exactly I plan on going, and when I’ll be getting to each way-point. Well, it seems to me that if I give you all of that information in advance […]
Try to imagine Imagine that you’ve been planning a trip. Perhaps a big trip; Maybe even a trip that is part of a huge series of changes that are happening to you, or even that you’re initiating yourself. Imagine this trip will be taking you from your home in CA, to a new home, thousands […]
Why – That’s the first question… As I’ve been preparing for the trip I’ve pretty regularly been asked; Why are you going to spend so much of your day blogging? Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation, or something? The truth is that there’s a little bit of me that want’s to become a writer. […]
12 Days to go On Saturday afternoon, I visited a friends house, where my group of friends threw a going away party for me. Although these folks were my friends, it seemed to me that a good many of them had really never seen a fully-loaded Adventure Bike, and they therefore didn’t really understand what […]
Who am I, and why do I shake things down? Hello and good afternoon to all of you that are following the pre-adventure. That’s right, the adventure hasn’t really started, but we’re getting very close. I’ve been in IT for more than 35 years, and I’ve had to live with all of the statistics that […]