Wild West Ride is on

[Z06]

Cousin and I have been planing a 6 month long ride out west and to Prudhoe Bay for about three and a half years. He left VA two weeks ago to visit in San Antonio And I left last Saturday to meet up with him in Texas. Caught up with him yesterday at Monahans State Park. Camped there and left this morning for Big Bend national Park for a few days. Will be updating blog as we move along and get some kind of internet signal.
Blog address is www.wwr2014.com
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Living the dream

 

[snakebitten]

Big Bend!
What a way to START an adventure. And plenty of time to really explore a magical place.

Your link didn't work for me. I'd really like to read your blog.

 

[True Grip]

I'm coming along! Blog is bookmarked. ::003:: here is to trail magic and less flats

 

[Z06]

Big Bend!
What a way to START an adventure. And plenty of time to really explore a magical place.

Your link didn't work for me. I'd really like to read your blog.

Fixed link. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

 

[snakebitten]

Killer! Link is good now.
You guys enjoy!

 

[Z06]

Spent the day riding/sight seeing in Big Bend. Awesome place. Can only imagine the things we will see in next six months.

 

[snakebitten]

Wait till you see the sunset, sunrise.
The place truly is magical.
Grab some grub in Terlingua.
Might catch the fire dancers on a Friday night.

 

[Z06]

Update for the last week. We left Big Bend National Park with Guadalupe National National Park as next destination. Spent one night there then on to Carsbad Caverns. Awesome. Spent night in Roswell NM. Next day spent some Time in Lincoln NM. Where Billy The Kid escaped jail from. On to Route 66 in Moriarty NM. Next day Durango was destination. Over one pass at 10300 ft. Plenty of a aw around. Durango to Moab UT. Spending week here. Visiting the parks. Rode to Telluride CO over La Sal mountian on forest service roads. Above snow line there. Rode up into canyon where Black Bear pass drops out into Telluride. Watch 14 avalanches while we were up there. Snow coming off those cliffs. Did Shafer trail and a little bit of White Rim trail in Canyonlands yesterday. Trip has been awesome up to now.

 

[Z06]

We had a rain day on 13th. 14th did some maintenance on bikes like changing oil. Went and watched Jeeps and trucks do some rock climbing.
Left Moab and rode back to Mesa Verde National Park. The cliff dwellers were hard workers. Unbelivable the structures they built in the cliffs with no tools.
Rode down the Moki Dugway. Grand Canyon today finishing up in Route 66 Motel in AZ.

 

[True Grip]

Following along on the blog. It's nice you've got the time to visit the good stuff so often we blast right on by. I'm envious and happy for you two. Looking forward to more!

 

[Z06]

Day 21 Hoover Dam and Las Vegas
Day 22 Big Bear Lake Ca
Day 23 San Diego
Day 24 USS Midway Jerry spent 2 years on Midway during Vietnam.
Day 25 Hotel Coronado then Tijuana Mexico
Day 26 San Diego Zoo
Day 27 Torrey Pines to see para gliders to Escondido CA
Day 28 Moved camp from Chula Vista to Pomona CA
Day 29 The Rock Store and Venice Beach to See the freak show.
Day 30 Pro Superbike races at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana CA
Living the dream

 

[Z06]

For those in the area that may know here is the route we rode Saturday from the Rock Store. And those that may pass through some day it was a great ride. Santa Monica mountains north of Malibu
Mulholland Hwy West
Decker Rd, (hwy 23) south
Picked up Mulholland Hwy west again
Little Sycamore Canyon Rd. NW
which turns into
Yerba Buena (Out cropping where we stopped to over look Conejo Valley. 1000 Oaks, Westlake Village, Lake Sherwood Tiger Woods tournament and at our feet in the canyon below is where Hollywood Animal Actors place is. Late evening you can here the lions roar. Forgot to mentoin the tidbit while we there. picture #2 From there we saw Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands t the west.
then
Cotharin Rd. (747 wing house, you can actually make them out on google maps)
then
Pacific View Dr.
Then
Deer Creek Rd. (BMW picture #1 and rd. #4)
then
PCH (Neptunes Net) east/south through Malibu then south to Venice Beach.

 

[Z06]

Day 31 Goof off day. Did visit with Kevin at Erion Racing.
Day 32 Pomona to Pismo Beach
Day 33 Pismo to San Simeon home of Hearst Castle
Day 34 Spent the day wandering around Hearst Castle
Day 35 Rode PCH from San Simeon to Santa Cruz Awesome scenery!!!!!!
Day 36 Freeway up to Sonoma for second round of Superbike races.

 

[Z06]

Day 37 Superbike races at Sonoma Raceway
Day 38 Sonoma to Fresno
Day 39 Fresno to Sequoia NP
Day 40 Sequoia NP
Day 41 Sequoia to Kings Canyon NP
Day 42 Kings Canyon
Day 43 Kings Caynon to Oakhurst CA

 

[Z06]

Day 44 to 48 Yosemite National Park. Awesome place

 

[Z06]

Have been 12400 miles on this trip so far. Currently in Dease BC zeroing in on the Dalton Hwy to Deadhorse. Trip has been epic.

 

[mhoy]

WOW, EPIC TRIP, very beautifull, AWSOME.

 

[Z06]

Trip has been going smooth until we arrived in Dawson City Yukon. Found a bad rear wheel bearing on Jerry's bike. There are no motorcycles shops anywhere near there so we decided to fly in my spare rear wheel from FL. Good thing was that Dawson had an airport to get it into. We had just ridden the last 150 miles at 80 to 85 MPH. When we removed the rear wheel there was only one ball left. Rest were dust. Also best place to find problem between Whitehorse and Fairbanks. Down for three days waiting for wheel.
Left Dawson and rode over Top of the World HWY into Alaska. Rain most of the way so the views were not very good.
In Fairbanks now getting ready to ride the haul road to Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay.

 

[Don in Lodi]

Parking the trailers when getting into the rough stuff? I was wondering how the Bushtecs are doing.

 

[Z06]

The trailers have been doing fine. We did leave them in Whitehorse to do the rough stuff in Alaska. Have already been missing the creature comforts left behind like big tents and cots