Sounds like fun..... me, I'd like to do a tour from Virginia straight up to Maine and have a Maine lobster.... then straight across the country heading back home to Bigfoot country........
Stay safe on your road trip. I toured from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California and back to St. Louis, MO in 2007. I vowed this was my last long distance motorcycle tour....it was on my bucket list, and I'm glad I completed it, but it was an arduous trip. My ex-roommate toured from Baja California to Argentina on a Honda 750 with a backpack and one change of clothes. Cajones out the wazoo...some of the area he travelled through is quite sketchy.
One guy ran last year (Cocoa Beach to Detroit)...he long hauled it on, get this, a 1958 Harley chopper. No windshield...and it is a hardtail with no rear suspension! Yikes!
When I was a kid, my second aunt and uncle came to New York from Wales to visit. Greyhound had a special- $X for an unlimited, one way ticket in one direction and kids ride free. So my mother booked a trip for us from New York to Washington State- always going west. Although I remember very little from the road trip apart from 3am bus transfers in the middle of nowhere, I can say I went across America on vacation. We ended up in Canada and my second aunt paid for the plane tickets to take us back home.
Throughout my life, I've vacationed all over the place. Usually taking days to prepare and then days to unwind. Waiting for trains, planes and ships. Packing - unpacking over and over throughout the coarse of my holiday. Maxing out credit cards and monitoring vacation funds. Last year we had our best vacation. A week long kayak trip. Paddle-camp, paddle-camp. Good food made on an open fire, beautiful scenery and adequate time to enjoy it. Just a hell of a good, and relaxing time (and isn't relaxing what a vacation is all about?) All this; communing with nature, communing with family cost us less than $150, 1 hour and 15 minutes travel time from my house to where we dropped in the Feather River.
Now that is what I call a vacation and a great time. Just being able to kick back and let go and enjoy yourself for a change.
Now that is what I call a vacation and a great time. Just being able to kick back and let go and enjoy yourself for a change. And maybe even go skinny dipping after the kids have gone to sleep.
Ha! Yeah, it was a good time and we'll be doing it again...this summer. But I'd best clarify one thing; I'm 71..My kids are 37 and 38 and God knows when they go to sleep. Skinny dippin' could prove to be embarrassing for both me and the wife...Although there was a time!
