OldCrow
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- Joined
- Jun 26, 2019
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- Location
- Knox Maine
- My Bike Models
- GL1200A, R100RT, KL650
Hello Everybody,
Just thought I'd check in and let you all know a 32 year old Aspencade is perfectly up to a tour around the country. We departed home base in Maine and picked up our first corner of Madawaska Maine about lunch time. Had a nice chat with Joe, the creator of the 4 Corners USA Park.
We then traveled through Canada and reentered the USA at Sault Ste Marie. We pickup up on US 2 out of Duluth MN. Dodged big storms across North Dakota but finally hit moderate rain a bit in to Montana. This is were we ran in to 2-3 miles of US 2 where Montana decided to take the entire road surface down to gravel and dirt. Well, add rain and it's a bit exciting. Then we hit Poplar MT where the highway department decided not only to do the gravel and mud trick but add pot holes, oh Yeah! The real funny part was the sign about 1/4 mile from the town saying “Motorcycles advised to use alternate Route”. Take a look at the map and see if you can find an "Alternate Route" then imagine sitting looking at a 4inch GPS screen trying to figure it out, oh and naturally in the rain!.
So muddy Montana roads quickly turn days of detailing in to a muddy mess.
We were planning on doing the Going to the Sun road in Glacier National park. We were based in Cut Bank MT ready when we got news the road was closed, some trouble.
Next big event was the 2nd Corner in Blaine Washington. This is where rain really found us and my right boot finally gave up any pretense of water proof.
Now we are in Las Vegas for a day of R&R before heading for San Ysidro. The Goldwing is running like a champ. After 7430 miles I did add about a pint of Mobil 1 4T today. Our highest pass was yesterday on US 93 coming down from Jackpot NV at 7422ft.
Tomorrow we plan to suffer Southern CA nightmare road system, please say a prayer for us.
Just thought I'd check in and let you all know a 32 year old Aspencade is perfectly up to a tour around the country. We departed home base in Maine and picked up our first corner of Madawaska Maine about lunch time. Had a nice chat with Joe, the creator of the 4 Corners USA Park.
We then traveled through Canada and reentered the USA at Sault Ste Marie. We pickup up on US 2 out of Duluth MN. Dodged big storms across North Dakota but finally hit moderate rain a bit in to Montana. This is were we ran in to 2-3 miles of US 2 where Montana decided to take the entire road surface down to gravel and dirt. Well, add rain and it's a bit exciting. Then we hit Poplar MT where the highway department decided not only to do the gravel and mud trick but add pot holes, oh Yeah! The real funny part was the sign about 1/4 mile from the town saying “Motorcycles advised to use alternate Route”. Take a look at the map and see if you can find an "Alternate Route" then imagine sitting looking at a 4inch GPS screen trying to figure it out, oh and naturally in the rain!.
So muddy Montana roads quickly turn days of detailing in to a muddy mess.
We were planning on doing the Going to the Sun road in Glacier National park. We were based in Cut Bank MT ready when we got news the road was closed, some trouble.
Next big event was the 2nd Corner in Blaine Washington. This is where rain really found us and my right boot finally gave up any pretense of water proof.
Now we are in Las Vegas for a day of R&R before heading for San Ysidro. The Goldwing is running like a champ. After 7430 miles I did add about a pint of Mobil 1 4T today. Our highest pass was yesterday on US 93 coming down from Jackpot NV at 7422ft.
Tomorrow we plan to suffer Southern CA nightmare road system, please say a prayer for us.
