I have neglected updating the map that indicates the states I’ve ridden in on my Motorcycle. I added 1 new state on the Spring trip this year, Mississippi. All that is left are 2 major regions. The west coast, and the Northeast states. Both of them are relatively far, so its really just a matter [...]
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Day 5 was spent held up in the Country Inn in Perl, Mississippi. Rain was the story of the day as a major front came through the area, adding to the already overflowing rivers and creeks throughout the mid-south from Missouri to Mississippi. We really didn’t want to ride it it so decided to wait [...]
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Today was, perhaps, the best day of the trip so far. We started out in West Yellowstone, MT an re-entered Yellowstone through the west gate. We headed straight to Old Faithful, but had a couple of delays on the way. The first was a young male bison grazing on the side of the road…right on [...]
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Day 4 started in Billings, Montana with a leisurely 9:15 departure from the Boothill Inn. It was about 150 miles to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone. Once we cleared the industrial setting of Billings, it was a nice ride-particularly once we hit the scenic Beartooth National Scenic Byway leading over Beartooth pass into Yellowstone. The [...]
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Day 3 started in Keystone SD and took us into both Wyoming and Montana. Kent wanted to stay on the interstate today and we made Good time, even with frequent stops for pictures. The scenery in Wyoming and Montana was truly breathtaking. Big skies, mountains , and rolling foothills were everywhere you turned your head. [...]
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Day 2 started in Sioux Falls where Kent and I decided to day off the interstate and take SD 44 and US 18. Across the state. The big takeaway from the day was how well off we are. The absolute poverty on the Indian reservations we passed through left us truly thankful for all we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fall trip 2010 – Channahon to Sioux Falls SD
Day 1 started with a send-off by a good friend at the BP station in Channahon. The first 130 miles into Iowa City were a bit chilly, but nice. After that, the weather turned and we had rain for most of the rest of the day. Lunch consisted of hotdogs at a gas station so [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ride with Kent
Yesterday I went for a nice ride with Kent. We started out meeting in Romeoville, at the Gas City station at I55 and Webber road. From there we headed out through pea-soup fog for about 30 miles until we got to Big Rock. We stopped for breakfast at the Coutry Cafe resturant and I had [...]
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This is the second time I’ve written this update as it got lost last night when i tried to post it and the Internet went down. Wednesday started with an early departure from the campground. About 8:30 or so. We headed back to Arkansas 7 again this time down to the southern end of the [...]
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Tuesday was another picture perfect riding day in NW Arkansas. The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful….. We started out with breakfast at the South Park diner ( and returned for dinner after we saw the home made pies) and plans to head up scenic Arkansas 7 and then loop around to the [...]
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