Trips/Adventures

2010 Ohio trip - upcoming

2010 North Carolina motorcycle trip

2010 Whidbey Island work trip

2010 Illinois Suburban trip

2010 Michigan Suburban trip

2010 Pigeon Forge Jeep trip

2009 East 50 motorcycle trip

2009 Pigeon Forge motorcycle trip

2009 South Dakota motorcycle trip

2008 Southern Indiana trip

2008 Blue Ridge Parkway motorcycle trip

Get Goldwing 2008

2008 Gatlinburg Beetle trip

Operation Get Goldwing

2007 Gatlinburg Jeep trip

2007 Frankfort motorcycle trip

2007 Asheville motorcycle trip

2006 Somerset, KY Jeep trip

2006 Kentucky motorcycle trip

2006 Gatlinburg Jeep trip

2005 Kings Island motorcycle trip

2005 Dayton motorcycle trip

2005 Asheville motorcycle trip

2004 Colorado motorcycle trip


Others' trips

Agirl's journeys

USA 4 Corners site - riding the corners of the USA in 21 days.

Fritz's rides

Robert Hilliard's Nomad site - Nomad info and travel stories.

Life Is A Road site - Great motorcycle travel stories.

Iron Butt Association - Great stories of hardcore riding.

Chan Lipscomb's page - Great bike stories. Well-written and good pictures.

Jason Jonas' page - Great bike stories. An IBA rider.

Alan Leduc's page - IBA stories. A fellow Hoosier.

Chad's and Tad's and Robert's trip reports

Daniel Cohen's site - long trips, great stories, and lots of pictures.

Doug Grosjean's Alaska Trip Report

America's Byways

Ed's Travel Stories

Muthuh's Touring Adventures

Popular rides

Blue Ridge Parkway (Mapsource data)

Cherohala Skyway (Mapsource data)

Deal's Gap - a.k.a. The Tail of the Dragon (Mapsource data)

Natchez Trace Parkway (Mapsource data)

Talimena Scenic Byway (Mapsource data)

The Trace (Mapsource data)

Skyline Drive - immediately north of the Blue Ridge Parkway (Mapsource data)

Great Smoky Mountain area

Rides I think would be fun
US 50 to the east coast. Taking US 50 west doesn't interest me that much. We did half of it in 2004.

Key West, FL.

Northern River Road route that could include the Michigan penisula.

Southern River Road route that could include the Natchez Trace Parkway.

USA 4 Corners site - riding the corners of the USA in 21 days.

Themed rides - These are rides where there is a common theme for the ride. A popular one is to visit Civil War Battlefields. Another is state capitals. Other themes could be local towns like Bedford, Fayetteville, Eureka, Mitchell, or Silverville. Names are also popular. Mine is Buford Standley Wright. If I had unlimited funding and vacation time I could do them all.

Here is a semi-realistic ride that encompasses many things:

- US 50 east to the coast
- Washington D.C. sites
- the Chesapeake Bay bridge/tunnel
- many Civil War battlefields
- several themed places...names and cities
- Skyline Drive
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Jack Daniels' distillery in Lynchburg, TN
- some of the Natchez Trace
- The Trace
- mostly US highways
- could easily accomodate other points of interest




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