Finally, a BDR on the East Coast The Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route is a 1100 mile planned route through VA, TN, WV, and PA. The route attempts to allow a seasoned Adventure Rider to navigate the 1100 miles, exclusively using Dirt Roads, and Country lanes. Like all BDRs, the objective was, and is to allow […]
Introduction World Travel on a motorcycle is a challenging test for both rider and motorcycle. As a rider, you have to be prepared to endure long days, technical obstacles, long waits at border crossings, multiple languages, foreign foods, the unknown, and much more. Each moment of each day you’re likely to face a great many […]
Prologue Most of my posts are written for my own personal satisfaction, and to share my experience with friends and family. This post is a little different. I would imagine that most of my friends and family will be bored to tears with this post. And so, if I wrote it, I must have had […]
And so… Here’s the problem When you’re preparing for a long and complex trip, such as the trip I’m planning for, you start out with two problems. You don’t know what you don’t know, and you don’t know who to ask about all of these things that you don’t know about. So, the issue is […]
Thinking big and small I’ve always found that when I’m working on something that requires a great deal of detail, but yet exists inside a much greater context, I alternate my thinking patterns between the Big, and the Small. For example, if you were going to build a house, you need to have enough detail […]
Introduction Before we get started, take a moment and think about the travel and logistics of embarking on a trip like this. You’re probably thinking, well, I need to fly to Tallinn, Estonia, so that I can begin my trip, and I need to get the bike to Tallinn as well, so I’ll just call […]
This is only the 2nd post of this Blog series, but I’m afraid that I’ve been bitten by the writing bug again. So, as long as I’m feeling like writing, I thought I would lay out some of the planning that needs to get done, in order to be ready for the trip. The bike […]
It’s been a while It’s been quite a while since I took my last trip across a faraway land, and it’s been over two years since I rode a little more than 8000 miles across the US, en-route to my new home in Indian Land, SC. Having completed an amazing trip across Patagonia in 2014, […]
What kind of a rider am I? In this post, I’m going to talk about my initial thoughts about the bike swap that I did with Chuck, that resulted in me logging about 25 miles on a Yamaha Stratoliner. Before we talk about the comparison, I’m going to spend a few lines talking about what […]
Day 49 – The final countdown Date: 07/20/2016 Wednesday Starting Location: Charlottesville, VA Ending Location: Indian Land, SC Starting Odometer: 14,802 Ending Odometer: 15,160 Mileage Driven (days): 358 Miles Mileage Total: 8306 miles Today’s MPG: 42 mpg Total Average MPG: 41 mpg States Visited: CA, NV, AZ, UT, NM, CO, UT, WY, ID, WY, MT, […]