Well we are at it again. - you just think 2017 is a long way away!:wink2: We have to get ready to be able to make reservations mid year so we are busy making plans.
We hope to arrive in the USA on August 4th, 2017 - beginning our ride on Monday 7th, exiting the USA about September 8th/9th
We have had two ideas or sets of where we would like to go - In the end we have decided to 'see/ride' the New England, area this time. The following ride, 2019/20, and possibly the last 'big' ride, will see us be in the USA for several months and will see us re-ride US HWY 101, parts of California, Nevada and on down to the southern states to make our way over to Florida, up to GA, SC, NC then back to our exit point. With this plan we should be able to tick off all the US states except Alaska, and technically Hawaii (we have been there but not on the bike)
We have spent the last couple of days planning a route - again not yet set in stone as we have to check accommodation options for where we hope to overnight and this will be the thing to do over the next couple of days.
We needed to do a bit of a fill in at the beginning of the ride to get over to the NE on a weekend - so some of the start is 'new' scenery and a small portion is a re-ride.
We will start at Washington state, head into BC Canada for a couple of days to see the area, some of you are visiting in 2016. Then into Montana, Kalispell to re ride the Going to the Sun road (Eric's grin and eyes got wide at that idea) into Browning and we will largely ride Hwy 2 across to PA. We are going to spend a day on the Michigan Peninsula to ride the 'Tree Tunnel'.
We are going to skip the Niagara Falls.
Overnight at Watkins Glen State Park to see a plate collision zone that Bill told me about a couple of years ago.
Into Pennsylvania before heading over to the New England area for about 7-ish days. We had to shorten our time spent here to have enough time to ride back to our exit destination. Highlights will be the Arcadia NP and Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy - love that name :smile2: Maybe an overnight in a train carriage with info courtesy of the Fossil's trip planning for 2016 (thanks guys)
Also time spent in the Adirondack and Green Mtns areas.
We are going to make time to ride a couple of the 2015 motorcycle top rides - the Shelburne Falls Loop in Massachusetts, and a second one - the Catskill Preserve in New York state. From there we will begin the ride back to the NW. On the ride back over to the NW we are going to ride to cross off a couple of more states, and it will be just to ride through and skim them really - Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, scootin' through Wyoming, into Montana, Idaho and into back Washington with a couple of days spare before catching our flight back home. Some of these we do not have specific things to see but that is okay as we will see whatever is on each side of the road. We mostly use a AAA map book, which has the 'scenic' roads highlighted so we hope it will be beautiful. We also use Google maps to help us plan the miles to ride each day and to consider time spent riding but also factor time for comfort stops, food etc.
As time goes by we will continue to give you all more info. Wanted to give you the earliest info as we had been planning a very different ride - but typically we have changed our minds. Have a great day all V and Eric
We hope to arrive in the USA on August 4th, 2017 - beginning our ride on Monday 7th, exiting the USA about September 8th/9th
We have had two ideas or sets of where we would like to go - In the end we have decided to 'see/ride' the New England, area this time. The following ride, 2019/20, and possibly the last 'big' ride, will see us be in the USA for several months and will see us re-ride US HWY 101, parts of California, Nevada and on down to the southern states to make our way over to Florida, up to GA, SC, NC then back to our exit point. With this plan we should be able to tick off all the US states except Alaska, and technically Hawaii (we have been there but not on the bike)
We have spent the last couple of days planning a route - again not yet set in stone as we have to check accommodation options for where we hope to overnight and this will be the thing to do over the next couple of days.
We needed to do a bit of a fill in at the beginning of the ride to get over to the NE on a weekend - so some of the start is 'new' scenery and a small portion is a re-ride.
We will start at Washington state, head into BC Canada for a couple of days to see the area, some of you are visiting in 2016. Then into Montana, Kalispell to re ride the Going to the Sun road (Eric's grin and eyes got wide at that idea) into Browning and we will largely ride Hwy 2 across to PA. We are going to spend a day on the Michigan Peninsula to ride the 'Tree Tunnel'.
We are going to skip the Niagara Falls.
Overnight at Watkins Glen State Park to see a plate collision zone that Bill told me about a couple of years ago.
Into Pennsylvania before heading over to the New England area for about 7-ish days. We had to shorten our time spent here to have enough time to ride back to our exit destination. Highlights will be the Arcadia NP and Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy - love that name :smile2: Maybe an overnight in a train carriage with info courtesy of the Fossil's trip planning for 2016 (thanks guys)
Also time spent in the Adirondack and Green Mtns areas.
We are going to make time to ride a couple of the 2015 motorcycle top rides - the Shelburne Falls Loop in Massachusetts, and a second one - the Catskill Preserve in New York state. From there we will begin the ride back to the NW. On the ride back over to the NW we are going to ride to cross off a couple of more states, and it will be just to ride through and skim them really - Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, scootin' through Wyoming, into Montana, Idaho and into back Washington with a couple of days spare before catching our flight back home. Some of these we do not have specific things to see but that is okay as we will see whatever is on each side of the road. We mostly use a AAA map book, which has the 'scenic' roads highlighted so we hope it will be beautiful. We also use Google maps to help us plan the miles to ride each day and to consider time spent riding but also factor time for comfort stops, food etc.
As time goes by we will continue to give you all more info. Wanted to give you the earliest info as we had been planning a very different ride - but typically we have changed our minds. Have a great day all V and Eric