2 Bikes - 4 States - 14 days - 4,000 klms
The thought for this ride started in 2005 when it was decided that we would like to ride a wing around some of the USA. And so the planning started, there were airlines to be booked bikes to be hired and accommodation to be booked and what dates would we go all questions with not many answers.
To answer some of these I started with the forums on the internet of many sites to ask to what would be the best circuit out of LA.
It is truly amazing to the kindest of some people never ceases to amaze me on one of the forums I met Dave and Dave sent across maps books and had marked out places to see etc. We now had the circuit and had added a true friend to our family as Dave would meet up with us later in the ride.
In the early days of planning it was going to be just the two of us after another couple could not come we planned the trip for just Karen and I, in a causal conversation with a friend in QLD well into the planning stage he asked if we would mind if they came and Karen and I were delighted to have another couple come along for the trip of a lifetime. The trip now would be John, Karen, Clint and Charleen.
With air travel all sorted the trip started on the 2 Sept 07 with us surviving the 15 hours of flying from Australia and settling into our motel close to the pick up of the hire bike. Note: Clint and Charleen due to different flights arrived a couple of days before us and went riding and would meet us in Morro bay)

Day 1 LA

Day 2 LA to Big Sur


Day 3 Big Sur to El Portal

Day 4 Yosemite area

Day 5 Yosemite area

Day 6 El Portal to Tonopah

Day 7 - Tonopah to Cedar City

Day 8 - Cedar City to Ruby's Inn via Zion Canyon

Day 9 - Ruby's Inn to Torrey

Day 9 - Torrey to Page

Day 10 - Page to Grand Canyon North Rim

Day 11 - North Rim to South Rim

Day 12 - Grand Canyon to Las Vegas via Route 66

Day 14 - Las Vegas to Los Angeles

This trip has been one of the most amazing experiences of our life.
The people, the ride, the places, the views, the contrasts and extremes, the smells...
the entire experience, is indelibly engraved deep within our spirit.
Pictures and words cannot even begin to convey the powerful beauty and awe of what we have experienced on this ride. But none the less, we humbly display here some of the images and impressions we were able see and capture with our camera.
Images and words that are just miniscule representations of scattered moments in time that collectively comprise our attempt to portray to you the beauty and wonder of our experience,
and also act as a visual reinforcement to us of the internal memories of this trip that will last forever.(Soloquest, 1800 forum)