Rewind to late 2024 – Flights booked to the USA for our 5 month “Lower 48 Mate” adventure starting May 2025 – check. Itinerary in preliminary planning phase, taking into account optimal weather conditions for the Lower 48 states, – check. Hmmm, we have two weeks at the end of the trip – what to … More South of the Border – down Mexico way!
Part 13. A perfect number to finish off on because it aligns with the number of stripes on the USA flag, which was the number of states that existed before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Triumph Boise in Idaho was voted by you, the reader, as the perfect place to start this finishing off … More Lower48Mate Part 13
On our previous shorter visits to the USA we had experienced the unique dining style that defines this country. Serving sizes had been the most confronting, a standard diner breakfast of eggs, crispy bacon, beans, sausage, “biscuits” (actually a savoury scone) and “gravy” (white sauce) can conceivably feed a family of 4 instead of just … More Dining in the USA – y’all want sides with that?
Day 110, Moab. Up, let’s do breakfast. Next door to the hotel was a classic diner experience, looks good. Well it did look good from the outside, not so much from the inside, with an immobile queue and no-one attending to it. People were also queued up at the register trying to pay. No-one attending … More Lower48Mate Part 12
Day 99 ended at the Sahara in Vegas. After a long roll up the Strip in the relentless heat and a stop to take in the popular Vegas sign photo, Garmin decided the Sahara was 13 miles and ¾’s of an hour out into the ‘burbs. Because I was leading, I missed the actual Sahara, … More Lower48Mate Part 11
Day 88. Crescent City, just inside the Californian border on the coast. Dennys luncheon. We had started up a conversation with our server. Of course we knew we must be coming into the land of large trees, having just ridden down the Redwood Highway from Oregon. She asked if we’d seen the large trees, not … More Lower48Mate Part 10
Yeah, I know it’s not typically an entrancing topic, it’s up there with discussing income taxes and how bad the traffic is on your daily commute. However, maintaining enough clothing in a reasonable state of cleanliness while on a lengthy motorcycle expedition is a matter of necessity. Our current 5 month trip to all Lower … More Airing our dirty laundry!
Rawlins Wyoming. Day 75. We were in the second perfectly rectangular state of the nation, with the one we’d just left (Colorado) being the other one. Because their borders are actually based on longitude and latitude lines, they of course aren’t rectangles, damn you curvature of the earth. We’d heard about a pair of shoes … More Lower48Mate Part 9
Mobridge, South Dakota. We love North and South Dakota because their state initials are ND and SD. None of that is MI Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, or Minnesota? nonsense. Day 66, and iPhone recovery euphoria still left a faint glow on the shiny forehead. Righto, let’s use that luck and tackle the Mo Bridge over the … More Lower48Mate Part 8
Out of Punxsutawney on Day 59, having done Gobblers Knob and learned all about the Groundhog. But first a mechanical crisis, a bolt had come out of the front of my bike, with noticeable wobbling of something that shouldn’t wobble. A bit like virtually every part of one’s post-middle-age body, but unfortunately none of those … More Lower48Mate Part 7
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