Motorcycle Adventures

Thursday, April 25, 2019

3 week trip 2019

Well it's riding season again and I'm starting this one off by heading to The Tail of The Dragon in North Carolina. Some K1600 forum members have been gathering at the Iron Horse Motorcycle Lodge the past 3 years at what they call Taming of The Dragon and I decided to join them on this their 4th annual meetup. I'll be leaving home Sunday morning April 28th and trek across country mostly on I-40 expecting to arrive on Tuesday after 1,862 miles of riding. I'll be doing this stretch alone.

At this event there should be approximately 50 BMW K1600 motorcycles and each day there will be at least 5 guided rides available for everyone. Then a group dinner each night.

On Sunday May 5th camp will break up and I plan on riding down to Lead, Al to tour the Barber Motorsport Museum. From there I will ride up to Missouri for another motorcycle get together put on by Honda STowners forum members. Steve will drop down from Kansas City, MO mid week and then on Saturday we will proceed to Mountain View, AR to start our annual "Guy Trip". This year's group will include, of course, me and Steve along with brother Kevin, Greg, Jerry, Rick, Frank and Norm. We will be staying in Mountain View for 4 nights with day rides in between. From there we will travel to Eureka Springs, AR for another 3 nights and days of local riding. Sadly on the 18th we all scatter and head home with me arriving there on May 19th.

I'm looking forward to this trip and will post pictures and write ups as time allows.
See Ya

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Until next time

All but Frank and Bruce are back home. They are still in Sturgis but will be home Tuesday night.

Jerry, Rick and I left this morning at 5:30 am (yawn) and arrived home at 11:30 am. It was a pleasant ride and one we've made dozens of time through the four corners area of our part of the country.

We all had a good time and our bikes performed flawlessly.

I left home on July 7th to attend the BMW MOA rally in Des Moines, Iowa and spend time with my folks in Cedar Falls, Iowa so I was personally gone for 30 days and traveled 6,205 miles. Too much ice cream weight now has to come off but it was worth it.

I want to thank all of you that followed along with us and hope you get a chance to have fun vacations too.

Saturday, August 4, 2018

The last hurrah

Jerry, Rick and I are spending our last night at a KOA in Cortez. We started the day by eating breakfast in Carbondale, Colorado. Then rode Hwy133 over McClure pass to Paonia. Then Hwy 92 down through Crawford and on to the Blue Mesa Reservoir. From there to Montrose and Ouray stopping later in Silverton for, wait for the drum roll.......ice cream. We kept riding south to Durango through some light rain and then over to the KOA in Cortez.

We are planning on leaving at sunrise to try and beat some of the heat on our final leg home.

Breakfast

Ouray

Silverton

Friday, August 3, 2018

The split up

Jerry, Rick and I headed to Colorado this morning and arrived at our reserved KOA cabin by mid afternoon. Nice temperatures with a little wind thrown in for good measure. Frank and Bruce took off on their 3 hour cruise to Rapid City to meet their girls who flew in from Phoenix for several days of partying with 400,000 of their noisiest friends. Steve planned on staying at a friends in Sioux Falls tonight. I just got a call from Kevin who said he and Nate are switching gears and will ride all the way home, 900 miles, so as to avoid rain predicted for tomorrow.

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Great ride day and the last one that we're all together

Well it's been a great trip, as always. We are splitting up into several small groups headed in different directions.

Today though was the highlight of the ride. We first had breakfast in Red Lodge, Montana then rode over Beartooth Pass which is my, and many others, best motorcycle road in America. Then we got on Chief Joseph Highway, the second best.

Here are the pictures. Sorry if they aren't very clear but the whole trip has been plagued with fire smoke .