I love how the last month leading up to my departure for one of these trips I get so nervous and excited and anxious. This will be trip number seven (7) and I will be, for the most part, traveling to places where I have been before. But the nerves are still tingling and my stomach is still fluttering. Its time to get back on the motorcycle and head west!!
This year will be very similar to my first trip back in 2012. I will first head up to Colorado to see my daughter, then spend a few days doing the Ooray, Durango, Telluride loop. From there its up into Utah (Arches National Park, here I come again!), in through Idaho and Wyoming (Tetons and Yellowstone!) and then up into Montana and Glacier National Park where I will spend up to a week just playing, hiking and perhaps looking at real estate. From there it is up into Canada to revisit Banff and Jasper, over to the BC coastline, down across the cascades, across Washington, down along the western shores of the USA from Seattle to southern California, over into Arizona, back up into Utah and Colorado and then home. I am imagining somewhere around 10,000 miles again.
If you know me you know I love the ride the motorcycle as much as I like to stop and visit places. This time I plan to do a lot more hiking than I have in the past, and maybe look at some real estate up in Montana (a small house on 20 acres with a river about 25 miles from a medium sized town).
Nervous, yes. But oh how excited I am getting just thinking of departure!!
