This is the Ride-About 2008 Main Page.
Here you will find links to the Daily Pages with Photos and Text about the day.
This is the Star-Traxx Tracking Map for Ride-About 2008.
Daily Pages:
This was an excellent Ride-About that was planned & mapped by my Bro James Langley of Madison Alabama. This was also a celebration of 30 years of Friendship and Riding for James & I.
One of the goals of this Ride-About was to complete our Motorcycle Touring of the lower 48 states which was closed out with Indiana and Michigan.
One of the goals of this Ride-About was to complete our Motorcycle Touring of the lower 48 states which was closed out with Indiana and Michigan.
All photos were taken with a Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 10.1 Mega-Pixel Point & Shoot camera.
I also used my Star-Traxx System (Inmarsat) on this Ride-About and the tracking map can be reviewed at: www.star-traxx.com/TripReport .
We had a Great time on this Ride-About and visited several places we had been to previously just to see how they have changed and to enjoy them again.
I was truly impressed with the Western side of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The roads, scenery and people we encountered were fabulous. The Tunnel of Trees was a real treat.
The Mackinac Bridge linking the Lower & Upper Peninsulas of Michigan was not the bear I had been told in the past. The outside lanes are paved and the inside ones were steel grating which offered no issues for motorcycles.
The Upper Peninsula was a real pleasure to explore and the roads were top notch. I though we had Mosquitos in FlatLand until the first night in the UP when they began feeding on us while in Manistique.
The Upper Peninsula was a real pleasure to explore and the roads were top notch. I though we had Mosquitos in FlatLand until the first night in the UP when they began feeding on us while in Manistique.
We roamed all over the UP exploring Copper Harbor and the Northern end of US41. The roads were in amazing shape for a place that get 80 inches of snow annually. We encountered loads of white tail deer, skunks, beaver and just about everything else the UP had to offer.
The Trek West across Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana was perfect for the mental maintenance I seek on Ride-About. Nothing clears the mind so well as the open prairies of the West, free from urban sprawl and blight.
You can travel for hours and hundreds of miles between the tiny hamlets while enjoying the 360 degree Big Sky's and the gentle role of the prairie.
Glacier National Park had received more snow and had again closed the passes we sought to ride, so we headed South along the route bypassing Glacier.
The Mountains of Western Montana & Wyoming are breath taking as was the Beartooth Pass and Chief Joseph Highway.
The Mountains of Western Montana & Wyoming are breath taking as was the Beartooth Pass and Chief Joseph Highway.
We then headed East across northern Wyoming to the Big Horn Mountains and Medicine Wheel, then worked our way south to Worland, Ten Sleep Canyon and Buffalo WY.
Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie to the southeast, Yellowstone Park to the west-northwest, and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana to the northwest.
We headed out to Devil's Tower, Spearfish SD and Spearfish Canyon on the way to Cheyenne Crossing for lunch; on to Lead SD for two days of enjoying the Black Hills, Custer State Park, Iron Mt Road, The Needles Highway, Deadwood, Sturgis and others.
We headed out to Devil's Tower, Spearfish SD and Spearfish Canyon on the way to Cheyenne Crossing for lunch; on to Lead SD for two days of enjoying the Black Hills, Custer State Park, Iron Mt Road, The Needles Highway, Deadwood, Sturgis and others.
As we left Southwestern SD we visited Wall Drugs in Wall SD and then road through the Badlands National Park before heading south into Nebraska to visit Carhenge, just north of Alliance NE.
We wandered our way East to Broken Bow NE. then Southeast to Cape Girardeau MO, then Southeast over some fine Tennessee roads to Madison Alabama. The next day I rode back home to FlatLand.
I took hundreds of photos on this Ride-About and kept a representative set for the trip photos found above in the Daily Links.
I took hundreds of photos on this Ride-About and kept a representative set for the trip photos found above in the Daily Links.
A Great Motorcycle Ride with a Great Friend. The best way to spend 7000 miles and 14 days that I know of.
LATER
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