Facebook Instagram Sacramento Great to find time to spend a few excellent days with family in Sacramento, I fly down whilst the bikes are having an overhaul, we had intended to ride directly to California, but the tyres were almost down to the canvas and the engines were pleading for attention. Mine especially was making some odd noises, probably nothing but lets get it…
Facebook Instagram Heading North From the end of the TAT trail in Oregon we need to get to Vancouver, that’s 583 miles on a highway on Enduro Bikes, with Enduro tyres! Its hard, its hot and its long, the traffic around Seattle is something else (#carpark) We are not allowed to filter in traffic (Split Lanes) in this state, never understand this, after what…
Facebook Instagram Oregon We enter Oregon and the scenery changes again, we travel over large plains and past stunning lakes.......I go down for a closer look and get stuck in the soft muddy sand, with a little heaving we get the rear tyre free and are off again...peace returns to the guys trying to have a quiet days fishing:-)we met our first real Cowboys,…
Facebook Instagram Utah/Idaho border We left the Bonneville Salt Flats on a high, making good speed along the next trail which was 42 miles long, checking directions at a railway crossing we stopped for some pictures, Gary on the tracks, the line was straight and nothing was coming...I took a few shots when I said "goodness me old chap, I think a train is…
Facebook Instagram Utah As we entered Utah the temperature rises and the scenery changes, we make camp in the heat and head for the Mexican Hat.......the Valley of the Gods.......and Monument Valley... The scale of the National Parks in Utah is huge, Monument Valley a little too commercialised but still worth a visit. We met some cool dudes here from Japan, they were on…
Facebook Instagram Meet Irene OK the secret is out.....I have have got quite attached to this bike, and i thought she needs a name..... When your travelling like this you have many hours on the bike to ponder these things and as i was blasting down the tracks i was trying different names......then of course there could only be one name.... I got approval…
Facebook Instagram The White Rim trail is a 100 mile off road loop in the Canyonlands National Park, the route circumnavigates the Island Mesa high above the Green and Colorado Rivers.... Only 50 permits are issued each day, they are free and you get them online. There were 19 left for the day I applied. Then you pay your $25 dollars as you enter…
Facebook Instagram We left Lake City a little later than planned, we had spent three nights here and leave rested and ready to go... As you head for Cinnamon Pass it becomes clear where Lake City gets its name....a Lake sits above the town and very nice it is too. You leave the Lake half way around.... ...and then head for Cinnamon Pass, at…
Facebook Instagram Great Plains Bunk House The Oklahoma stage of the TAT is flat beyond flat, there is a mile square grid systems and the trail follows this pattern, if the weather turns wet then it gets very interesting. We near the end of Oklahoma and just before New Mexico was the "Great Plains Bunk House" this Really is a great place to stop…
Facebook Instagram Where do i start We start heading West away from the tourist areas and expensive hotels of New York and Washington DC, and we are on our own....free from the familiar routines, our comfort zone........but still with a plan and restricticted Russian visa's that mean we have got to keep pushing West, each day, every day, weekdays, weekends, wet days...just keep pushing......…