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So it took me pretty much all day to get all of my stuff together, packed and mounted onto the bike. Wow, did my inexperience with motorcycle touring really show through today. I have a lot of stuff strapped to the back of my bike. You can see the final packing list, here.
We both ended [...]

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Today was spent running errands, packing tents, installing GPS, checking batteries, rolling sleeping bags and finally starting to plan our route.  The maps are currently unfolded and we hover over them with highlighters ready to decide our fate. However no marks have been made and we still can not seem to decide where to go. [...]

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Over the past three weeks I have been laying out everything that I think I am going to need. It has become quite the pile.  I am in the process now of weeding out what I do not need and what just will not fit.

Things worth noting amongst this massive pile:
*Plexus Plastic Cleaner:  This is [...]

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We are getting down to the wire preparing for the trip and have only 5 days remaing until we leave!
Unfortunately, I’m still waiting on my saddlebags and windscreen to come in the mail – hopefully when they arrive the pieces of the puzzle will all fall into place.
There is still a lot of work to [...]

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This is certainly not the first, and definitely won’t be the last, trip of this kind. Folks have been touring the country on motorcycles for ages. So naturally, you would assume that there would be a lot of useful information on the internet concerning touring, routes, bike setup, gear selection, etc. Unfortunately, most of what [...]

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