From Mesa Verde we had a terrible trek through the desert to get to our next destination: the Grand Canyon.
Along the way I wanted to see Monument Valley. The hope was to gather a pack of inspired bikers to follow us on our journey, only to turn around to them in Monument Valley and tell [...]
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Tags:Arizona·Colorado·Forest Gump·Grand Canyon·Mesa Verde National Park·Monument Valley·Sand storm·Touristis·Utah·Wheelie
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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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Tags:Chain·Maintenance·Moab·Motorcycle Touring·Utah
I cant help but relate our trip to the song by The Shangri-Las called Leader of The Pack. Mainly because its the only song that involves motorcycles, engine noises and candy stores. Since we have both been spending lots of our time at the candy shops drinking malts and talking about boys it only [...]
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Tags:Chain·Maintenance·Moab·Motorcycle Touring·Subway·Utah
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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Tags:Camping·Hiking·Hot·Motorcycle Touring·Utah·Zion National Park
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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Tags:Camping·KOA·Logan·Maintenance·Motorcycle Touring·Utah
That’s us at the Grand Tetons, up there.
The KOA that we stopped at outside of Montpelier, Idaho was amazing. We had free wifi, chatted with the owner, had an incredible shower, a nice fire, and slept next to a roaring stream in probably the prettiest campsite we’ve had so far.
We got to wash our bikes [...]
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Tags:Beard·Crash·Idaho·Maintenance·Motorcycle Touring·Utah