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Well , when you're on the road and things don't work out it's pretty easy to just move on alone . You know, you just pack up in the morning hit the start button and go. I've traveled with strangers plenty in my life.In 1971 I hich hiked to Alaska from NY and back .I was with strangers for 3 months and some of those strangers became really good friends.I bought my camp in the Adirondacks from people I met on the first day of that trip .When I bought it we had already known each other 6 years.They are dead and gone and their three daughters are still friends. So,I'm not too concerned about the unknown with strangers.I'm a traveler.I've traveled my entire life.
Thing is that when you are living off your motorcycle you have to have everything you need to deal with whatever . Tools , basic supplyy of spares, food,water,camping gear, cloths.I did the last ride with 5 grand in my pocket and still had over 300 bucks when I got home.Without what you need you spend 3 times that on the road for lodging, maintenance , food ,. Damn , a motel room can cast over 100 bucks a night in many places where campsites are usually 20 and even free sometimes .BLM land in undeveloped areas is free and here at this beach on BLM land in California it was a whopping 8 bucks a night !
I will probably be going to the mgnoc national in Oregon last weekend in June,probably leave a week prior.If you are coming thru sw Wisconsin you can stop here and maybe ride together,sound s like my kind of trip.
Ditto..motorcycle travel and camping just go together, and what’s a trip without meeting people? Harder w multiple riders, and so easy aloneBig thumbs up on the 1970’s packing technology!! 😎
The 60's-70's imagery in this thread is the stuff good movies are made of. I am personally in awe of someone who did a 2-up 2-stroke cross-country trip with no fairing or modern "gear". I know lots of people did it (I knew 2 dudes who did 2-up from Ill to Fla for spring break on a Honda 350 four in the 80's, similar, but nowhere near the same), but to hear it first-hand is always special. How did all those roller-chains hold up back then? They weren't the modern O-ring type I'm sure.Wish I could join you on your trip, I'm in CT and would be going right past you on the way out. Too many obligations at this point in my life, I'm sure I'll be in my 70's like you when I do it again. Done it myself a couple times, and I agree with the hotel sentiment....I once slept inside my bike cover (why in the heck was I packing that?) in a ditch on a farm road in Kansas. Too tired, too dark, too remote to find a proper campsite.
The allure of long distance travel crystallised into reality for me in 2021 on this. 18,000 km in 6 weeks…That put a lot of things in perspective.
WOW ! That looks like an awesome ride man ! Post more about it ! Rides like these are what motorcycling is really all about.
Great blog stories yamaguzzi, sounds like a life well lived.Interesting to me that you want to travel with someone else when you have previously enjoyed solo travel (which I much prefer). Is that an age thing? I am 61, so younger than you, and no way would i want to head out with a relative stranger.