Ok so I had an exciting weekend, fitting a new Ohlins rear shock and Sonic springs. I was very lucky to find on the Super Tenere forum that a guy had crashed his bike and was parting it out – including a 200-mile-old Ohlins rear shock. Part was dispatched and arrived in San Diego on…
USA
USA Done!
That was 10,000 miles between DC and San Diego… awesome scenery, fun roads, near-perfect motorcycle, fabulous weather, great people along the way. Almost everything went to plan (travel tip – don’t plan very much, and there’s less chance of things not going according to plan). I had the kidney stone issues to deal with in…
Milerton Lake and Nervy Cops
Arrived here looking for a camp site at 5pm, almost dark already. The touch screen machine at the gate was happy to take my credit card and charge me $30 for a site. Proceeding down the road I passed 5 turnoffs to camping areas, all gated and “closed for the season”. What to do? Dark…
All Fixed!
I spent a pleasant couple of days around the Cascade Mountains – beautiful country and the weather has been perfect. Sunday evening saw me back in Seattle, at a hostel downtown. Two reasons – I still needed to see the Boeing factory, and… Monday was stent-removal day, and I’m a pussy and wanted to be…
Seattle – bye Kidney Stones!
Yesterday I did 250 miles and wasn’t feeling too bad – loaded up on ibuprofen. I actually did a 180-mile stint non-stop; which is really stupid as a I should have been stopping for water more frequently. Anyway, that put me within 100 miles of Seattle, so decided to push on. I have a friend…
Yellowstone
In Canada now after having spent some time in Yellowstone and north through Montana. I spent time with an ecologist friend of mine in Yellowstone, went on some field trips with her and a park ranger who’d been there 30 years. It was great hearing about the changes he’s seen in the park over that…
Devil’s Tower
Gorgeous day in Yellowstone today, heading… somewhere, not sure yet. Beartooth Pass tomorrow. Just had a few days in Buffalo WY, got to offload most of the gear – wow, it’s like riding a WR450 after being used to the fully loaded weight. Speaking of which, it took a bit of getting used to. It…
I’m a South Dakotan!
I‘m now a South Dakotan! It took half a day, and $42, to get my drivers license and bike registration switched over. And that included a 100 mile round trip! Registration was done in Madison, drivers licence in Sioux Falls – so went to Madison and back to get titled this morning, and was out…
Natural Attrition
I lost my favorite glasses in the crosswinds going across South Dakota. They were in a case clipped to the bike, and had been like that most of the trip with no problem, but one of the gusts whipped them away… this was in I-90. I knew roughly where I lost them. I went back…