Well, Aïda and everyone,yup, Alaska starting June 9th. Going with my American MI friend Rich. He lives in MI that is where we always picked up our new gear. David, I and Eric met Rich at 'Huggy Bear Campground' (love that name) on the night before entering the Lima Ohio MOA National in '05. Been fast friends since. Rich went and sold his big BMW r1100RT 1996 to me way back in '06 and that's the bike I rode to Vermont. Anyway he rides a Heritage Softtail Classic Harley so we will NOT be doing any gravel. Forget the Dalton and Dempster and all roads that separate the men from the boys and limbs!!!
We have no time schedule to keep except we plan to be at Redmond OR on the opening of the BMW National on Thursday, July 15th. Tires are always a question...like where will we need them on US Territory so they are cheaper. There is no comparison, even with the dollar approaching parity! We will try to ride some n. CA roads for sure then head east.
I am riding the Bonneville even though LRB has much better gas range but I don't wanna put all those miles on him really and the Bonnie is new and fuel injected so better for hills and mountains 'they' say. LRB is slated for eastern North America!!! Derek and I just may go east to Cape Breton in late August. Derek in the van, Rich, brother and I on bikes. LRB goes then. Rich will be coming here to help celebrate the 50th year our family has owned a wee cottage in the Kawartha lake area of Ontario.
Richard from MI and I plan to camp a few days then motel it for rainy ones and to get a good shower and rest. So a combo plan. The plan is he will ride up here to Meaford and we leave and go up and around Huron and cross into the USA at the Sault then follow the Upper Peninsula of MI west on that 28 Hwy. Keep going west on Hwy 2 till we reach Glacier NP in N. Montana then cross over just west of there. Up to Banff then Jasper on a really beautiful hwy then ' north to Alaska". Home via Redmond, n. CA highways and Parks. 5 weeks +/_!
