Tuesday, April 22, 2008
4/22/08
Trip departure is coming fast. It seems like the last couple weeks has flown by. I now have the MAIN camping essentials I'll need except for a sleeping bag. I do have a cheap sleeping bag, but I'll have to see if it'll pack up small enough for me to take and not have to buy a more compact one.
UPS just stopped by with the brackets to install the hard side cases on my bike so I need to decide which size luggage to get. Those should be the last large purchase I'll need to make since I've already purchased the GPS system.
I watched a program on the Travel Channel about Yosemite Nation Park and I'm definitely going to have to go there.
Also, I just printed out the forms I'll need to make a SaddleSore 1000 run to be in the Iron Butt Rider's Association. There are only about 15,000 people worldwide in this association of long distance riders and the SaddleSore 1000 is the "easiest" of the rides. It requires you to document and have witnesses at the start and finish of the ride in which you must travel 1,000 miles within 24 hours on your motorcycle. I I've done 600 miles straight through before and am pretty sure that I'm going to need to make some comfort enhancements to my bike or my self to achieve this without being disabled for a day or two afterwards. My bike is no big highway cruising Goldwing or similar bike. If you'd like to read a little more about the association the link is www.ironbutt.com. There are a couple of other rides that I'd like to get certifications for as well like the Great Lakes ride.
Some really good news is that my friend Adrian Guyberson
is going with me for at least the first week of the ride. He will be riding his 2007 (I think) Triumph Daytona 675, which is a crotch rocket by motorcycle standards. This will be a good thing in a couple ways. It will keep me slowed down from traveling too much since he won't be able to do as much mileage as me on a crotch rocket and I'll have to enjoy the sights stops more instead of just dead heading to my destination like I usually do. And also, I won't be going from seeing all my friends every day like I do now to being completely alone on the road. Having him with me will give me a good transition to me being by myself. This all depends on if he finds a job within the next few weeks or not though. I printed out two sets of the SaddleSore 1000 forms that I wrote about above, although I'm pretty sure that Adrian would be looking like Quasimodo if he were to ride that long, BUT you never know. He might want to go for it with me. We can always lay around a campsite the next day licking our wounds and nursing our aches with some drinks.
UPS just stopped by with the brackets to install the hard side cases on my bike so I need to decide which size luggage to get. Those should be the last large purchase I'll need to make since I've already purchased the GPS system.
I watched a program on the Travel Channel about Yosemite Nation Park and I'm definitely going to have to go there.
Also, I just printed out the forms I'll need to make a SaddleSore 1000 run to be in the Iron Butt Rider's Association. There are only about 15,000 people worldwide in this association of long distance riders and the SaddleSore 1000 is the "easiest" of the rides. It requires you to document and have witnesses at the start and finish of the ride in which you must travel 1,000 miles within 24 hours on your motorcycle. I I've done 600 miles straight through before and am pretty sure that I'm going to need to make some comfort enhancements to my bike or my self to achieve this without being disabled for a day or two afterwards. My bike is no big highway cruising Goldwing or similar bike. If you'd like to read a little more about the association the link is www.ironbutt.com. There are a couple of other rides that I'd like to get certifications for as well like the Great Lakes ride.
Some really good news is that my friend Adrian Guyberson
is going with me for at least the first week of the ride. He will be riding his 2007 (I think) Triumph Daytona 675, which is a crotch rocket by motorcycle standards. This will be a good thing in a couple ways. It will keep me slowed down from traveling too much since he won't be able to do as much mileage as me on a crotch rocket and I'll have to enjoy the sights stops more instead of just dead heading to my destination like I usually do. And also, I won't be going from seeing all my friends every day like I do now to being completely alone on the road. Having him with me will give me a good transition to me being by myself. This all depends on if he finds a job within the next few weeks or not though. I printed out two sets of the SaddleSore 1000 forms that I wrote about above, although I'm pretty sure that Adrian would be looking like Quasimodo if he were to ride that long, BUT you never know. He might want to go for it with me. We can always lay around a campsite the next day licking our wounds and nursing our aches with some drinks.
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