Day 1 Date: 06/02/2016 Thursday Starting Location: San Carlos, CA (Paul’s House) Ending Location: Bridgeport, CA (Hotel) Starting Odometer: 6842 Ending Odometer: 7114 Mileage Today: 268 Miles Mileage Total: 276 miles All about today… Yesterday, I departed from Belmont, CA and made my way to Paul’s house in San Carlos, a short 4 mile trip. […]
Day 0 Date: 06/01/2016 Wednesday Starting Location: Belmont, CA (Lea’s House) Ending Location: San Carlos, CA (My Home) Starting Odometer: 6838 Ending Odometer: 6843 Mileage Today: 4 Miles Mileage Total: 4 miles All about today… Today was all about finalizing my move, and getting my household goods packed up, and shipped to South Carolina. I’d […]
The going away speech At the going away party about a week and a half ago, I was really happy to see so many good friends, and to hear them all wishing me well on my trip. As I’ve been known to do, I decided to make a little speech, and in that speech I […]
A brief intro… I’m down to just a few days left before I begin the trip. I thought that some of you might be wondering where exactly I plan on going, and when I’ll be getting to each way-point. Well, it seems to me that if I give you all of that information in advance […]
Try to imagine Imagine that you’ve been planning a trip. Perhaps a big trip; Maybe even a trip that is part of a huge series of changes that are happening to you, or even that you’re initiating yourself. Imagine this trip will be taking you from your home in CA, to a new home, thousands […]
Why – That’s the first question… As I’ve been preparing for the trip I’ve pretty regularly been asked; Why are you going to spend so much of your day blogging? Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation, or something? The truth is that there’s a little bit of me that want’s to become a writer. […]
12 Days to go On Saturday afternoon, I visited a friends house, where my group of friends threw a going away party for me. Although these folks were my friends, it seemed to me that a good many of them had really never seen a fully-loaded Adventure Bike, and they therefore didn’t really understand what […]
Who am I, and why do I shake things down? Hello and good afternoon to all of you that are following the pre-adventure. That’s right, the adventure hasn’t really started, but we’re getting very close. I’ve been in IT for more than 35 years, and I’ve had to live with all of the statistics that […]
The back-country… What the heck are you talking about? Ever since I thought about this elaborate plan to travel from the L coast to the R coast, I had a certain kind of vision in mind. I wanted to enjoy, and be fascinated by America, and I wanted to test myself by traveling over some […]
In the beginning The 2015 BMW R1200 GS Adventure is a very capable bike that comes outfitted for adventure riding pretty well from the factory. However, for the serious rider (Am I suggesting that I’m a serious rider? Don’t take me too seriously on this…) the bike is not properly outfitted to take on the […]