It has been said that the longest journey begins with just a single step. Well, the time has arrived to see if Linda and I can take that first step on our “big” trip together to Washington State on our 1995 BMW R100RT motorcycle...
A chance to take a trip is something I always look forward to, but taking a trip in winter to Colorado by motorcycle was out of the question. Hey, that’s why we bikers own cars, right? Taking the Explorer would still give us a chance to see the sights during a different season. Hwy 80 here we come….
I awoke to one of those beautiful March days in California that make you understand why 33 million of us have chosen to live here. No snow today, no rain today, just a perfect 68 degrees and some beautiful green hills that call out, “Why aren’t you on your motorcycle, fool?” ...
Looking back, it all happened awfully fast but that seems to be the way life is anymore. Get in and hang on. We picked up our new Goldwing on Wednesday, May 25th. That next Saturday started the three-day Memorial Day weekend. We just had to go somewhere...
We left Santa Clara about 8:30 in the morning and the temperature was already in the low 70’s. We headed straight for Saratoga and Hwy 9 towards the mountains and the coastline that waited on the other side. Saratoga sits right at the bottom of the Coastal Range and is a nice town in its own right, but today we had other places to visit...
...Today we will be heading for Yosemite National Park then stop at Lee Vining, CA for the evening. We headed up Hwy. 880 to the Mission cutoff over to Hwy 680 then to Hwy 580 East. This took us through the Altamont Pass area with its hilltops full of windmills for generating electricity...
… Na een lekker ontbijt besloten we dus om verder te trekken, richting de Moezel. Via Cochem de Moezel afgezakt en overal kijken of we een camping konden vinden. Nou, campings genoeg, maar niet echt voor simpele motorrijders met een trekkerstentje.
De bestemming Ierland werd reeds het vorig jaar vastgelegd in Bretagne (zie reisverslag). Daarna begon het lezen van boeken en brochures over het land om zo een route te kunnen uitstippelen...