Hopefully Clay's. $ is crazy tight now with the house college and other responsibilities. Lots of local stuff with a couple of overnights to the Cape and Vermont.

Well I gotta ride somewhere this coming year. I didn't ride on a trip longer than 70 miles this past year. Pretty sad. Yellowstone?

Come to Ma. Bring your adorable wife. ♥

Not sure, but thought about SW Wisconsin again- that was a great trip.  I'd love to do James Bay again, but that probably won't happen for a few years until I go with my son and ADVT it (Adventure Truck). 

Anyone want to ride to Alaska next summer?

I knew 2013 would be a slow riding year for me when I joined a local band. It seemed we always had a gig booked on my three day weekends (9/80 work schedule) when the weather was nice. I did a few long weekends and had some nice day rides. Probably the highlight was a four day dual sport trip to WV in June.

If anything, the band will be busier next year (recording an album next month), so I will need to plan stuff more in advance and block it off the calendar. I would like to do another long dual sport trip. There is talk of going to the Michigan UP next year.

I need to do a five or six day trip to the Dragon again. Maybe the STN/STO National will be down in that region.

Those two trips will pretty much eat my moto vacation days. I want to do an AMA dual sport weekend or two with my son next year as well.

And finally, we are supposed to be installing our new process control system in Switzerland in the fall, so maybe I can swing a few days on the bike in/around Switzerland before the snow flies.

Luckily I have great day rides available to me and no shortage of options for over nighters and long weekends.

It's always raining in the PNW...plus the cat is delish.  I'd stick with plan A.

If anything, the band will be busier next year (recording an album next month),

Let us know when it's released! 

2014 will probably be a lame year for me again, mileage-wise.  If I could stop getting knocked up all the time, I might have better riding seasons.  But as it is, I'll try to get in a bunch of day rides and hopefully one overnight trip. 

We all choose our own fun sweetie.


There is a cure for that btw. 

more riding. Paved, dirt, gravel, machs nichts, more riding.

I would love to try a gravel/dirt trip.  Not sure I have tome right now, but that would be fun.   

Two Trips:

1. Western Tour to visit my daughter and her family in California

2. Southwestern Tour to visit my youngest daughter in Texas.

Anyone want to ride to Alaska next summer?

I did AK in 2009 - unbelievably cool trip. 

The current vote on our end is Vancouver Island and possibly Banff.  I've only got a week to burn and AK really needs three to be done right.

If I could stop getting knocked up all the time, I might have better riding seasons.   

Well if you were on your motorcycle......you wouldn't be getting knocked up. 


13 sucked for me and riding. No trips other than a few 200 mile days in the enchanted mitten. For 14 I would be happy with just a long weekend in SE OH or WV. A grand year would be a week running down the BRP and hitting the highlight roads along the way. Time and money, time and money....never seem to have both at the same time.

2014 will probably be a lame year for me again, mileage-wise.  If I could stop getting knocked up all the time, I might have better riding seasons.  But as it is, I'll try to get in a bunch of day rides and hopefully one overnight trip. 

Wait, did I miss something?  Are you knocked up AGAIN?   

A new bike...either a GS, Tiger, or Super Tenere. Then a trip to the Black Hills to check out Mt Rushmore with a swing through Yellowstone perhaps.

There were also rumors among the gang of a trip north along the coast to Seattle and Vancouver.

Quote from: BMW-K on November 12, 2013, 11:41:42 AM

Wait, did I miss something?  Are you knocked up AGAIN?   

Yep!  Or "still", depending on when you last heard.    We've got a little boy due on January 13.

Need a filter for the water there I think.


Me? Hopefully Orygun.

I need to ride across the country next year.  I made it half way once, but never all the way, it has been a dream for far to long.

Utah, Colorado, the whole four corners deal, probably with my oldest and maybe middle son. Also a trip to NC to visit my riding buddy who moved this year.

That ride scarred me.  I just added a 4.7 gallon tank to a WR250r, additional lights and an Eastern Beaver 3 circuit solution.  The GSA has tanker capacity, more lights than I have sense, a fuzeblock and a voltmeter.  I hope to never, ever, repeat a crossing with a limited fuel, limited lighting and an electrical system from the damned.   

That being said, it was fun . . .. 

MacGyver saved it from Peter sending it the blow things up show, and it went to the home of a new rider when I went yellow.  No, not yellow as in frightened of the ride (even though it sparked the first time I saw her in Chicago before the final fix), but when I got the GSA.  I do not know what happened since.  I confess to checking the news now and then for catastrophies involving spontaneous combustion, unexplained explosions, or immolation. . ..  Haven't heard of any. . ..











Yet.

Perhaps Nova Scotia.  $$ and time being the deciding factors as always.

Do it! I ran the Gaspe and Cape Breton in '06 on a tight budget--alternated camping with hotels--and that was still the best time I've had on a bike. Had a great 3-course dinner of sauteed skate with mussels in a waterfront restaurant in Perce for $17.95, camped at Meat Cove, saw moose, and rode through gorgeous scenery.

MacGyver saved it from Peter sending it the blow things up show, and it went to the home of a new rider when I went yellow.  No, not yellow as in frightened of the ride (even though it sparked the first time I saw her in Chicago before the final fix), but when I got the GSA.  I do not know what happened since.  I confess to checking the news now and then for catastrophies involving spontaneous combustion, unexplained explosions, or immolation. . ..  Haven't heard of any. . ..

Oh, man. I must have missed when it went up for sale. I wanted a chance to try my luck with the possessed bike.

Quote from: Hodge Podge on November 13, 2013, 10:30:55 AM

If my wife is comfortable taking our girls on solo for a few days by next October, I want to get to the Barber Vintage festival via BRP and Cherohala.  If no dice on that one, then I'll have to hope that AMA Vintage at Mid-Ohio is not scheduled for the weekend of her birthday (again).

Little River Canyon in AL is a nice diversion on the way there.

Nice!

Cape Breton is amazing:
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...and Meat Cove is worth the dirt road for the name alone
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Here's the whole slideshow, if you're interested in the Gaspe as well: http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=14ac42f33f4091d7&sid=8AZNmTFy2bt2Gf

Quote from: giaka on November 07, 2013, 06:52:31 PM

Well I gotta ride somewhere this coming year. I didn't ride on a trip longer than 70 miles this past year. Pretty sad. Yellowstone?

Come to Ma. Bring your adorable wife. ♥

 

That ride scarred me.  I just added a 4.7 gallon tank to a WR250r, additional lights and an Eastern Beaver 3 circuit solution.  The GSA has tanker capacity, more lights than I have sense, a fuzeblock and a voltmeter. I hope to never, ever, repeat a crossing with a limited fuel, limited lighting and an electrical system from the damned.   

That being said, it was fun . . .. 

Meh and uneventful ride across the US would have been boring and soon forgotten. Freaking demon spawn of a motorcycle.

Quote from: Hovmaven on November 13, 2013, 06:14:53 AM

Quote from: marc11 on November 12, 2013, 03:17:50 PM

I need to ride across the country next year.  I made it half way once, but never all the way, it has been a dream for far to long.

See if Giaka has a bike for sale, hopefully possessed.  The ride it back home. 

Could be quite an adventure. . ..   




 

Prefer not that type of "adventure".  Riding an RT with the omnipresent FD worry would be adventure enough for me.

You know what they say, once you've gone possessed, you never go back . . ..