No Thru Traffic

29            Days on the Road
6,989      Miles Traveled
9               National Parks Visited
10             States visited
8               Meals at Subway
4               Taco Bell’s I wish I didn’t eat at
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Maybe 10 people will be interested in this…
So as you may have gathered, I had a real shitty time dealing with my chain all the time. After the first long ride it had turned red, was bone dry, and needed a ton of tightening. After repeating this cycle and discovering new terribly tight and terribly [...]

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Its been over 10 days now and some may be wondering what it is that we do all day,  what we find to eat while traveling or how we find time to write this blog.  Maybe you are questioning how we manage to stay so physically fit and beautiful in such harsh circumstances. Or how [...]

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I knew that this was going to be a pretty dirty trip – we probably wouldn’t be smelling or looking too nice. But I somehow thought that smelling and being dirty would be my choice, rather than it being forced upon me. That’s until I camped in national parks.
Despite their beauty and general awesomeness, none [...]

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If I had to name three things I learned from popular music they would be, that you can’t always get what you want,  that all we are is dust in the wind and that Heaven is a halfpipe. If I had to name three things I learned from this trip so far, they would be, [...]

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I feel like Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Bear with me here.
You say you want to ride a motorcycle and all the crazies, nay-sayers and other people too afraid of their own shadow will tell you that you’re crazy. You’ll crash, you’ll die. There are two types of riders: those who’ve gone down, and those [...]

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Ah, Yellowstone. It was our most anticipated destination and boy were we excited to get there. Unfortunately, the trek required that we ride through yet another windy mess of a thunder/rainstorm.

Along the way, we rode past the guest ranch that I stayed in during my first Red Bull training and the lake that they took [...]

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Last night was our first night camping but I’m already realizing some ups and downs of moto camping in state parks.
Moto campers seem to be much more rare, so the pains of jealousy are very strong indeed when we light up our small stove to warm dried food and the aroma of steaks and corn [...]

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