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I got to the coast yesterday via an awesome stretch of CA41 that took me through some windy and beautiful wine country. The weather is already a lot more pleasant. I was even a little chilled for part of the ride.
It feels good to be on the coast and have some curves in the road. [...]

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Doing this trip alone is so different than doing it with Ryan. I don’t have anyone to complain about the heat with, no one to point out fat people on Harleys, no one to talk about how creepy it is to be in a campground completely alone, and I don’t have anyone to spoon peanut [...]

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After leaving Chipotle Mecca, which is apparently known by some as Denver, we headed south to Colorado Springs. Working on some hot leads by our local pal, Jack, we wanted to check out a few things around this awesome part of the state.
Following some more freeway slogging, we made a quick stop at the Air [...]

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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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We awoke from our slumber at another awesome KOA in Fillmore really early to try and make it to Zion in time to get a first-come, first-served camping spot. But as is typical of my packing, it took me an hour to put the mountain of crap back onto my bike. After another terrible freeway [...]

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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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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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After leaving Glacier we headed south towards yellowstone.  We stopped in Helena Montana to get some lunch at Safeway and stock up for dinner. Up until this point we had been fortunate enough to stay dry, safe and happy. Like two babies tucked into bed, we were content. Until the rains came…
We got soaked riding [...]

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So it’s been a little while since we were last able to update this thing, turns out there isn’t much service in Montana – expecially in Glacier National Park. It also seems as though AT&T shut off my internet tethering, so posts may be more limited or without photos unless we find hotspots during pitstops.
Since [...]

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We got a much earlier start today on our way back south to Lewiston and US 12. Yes, we had to backtrack – chalk one up to poor map planning. Once we got back onto US 12 though the road snaked through a valley and hugged a river as we retraced the tracks of Lewis [...]

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