Category Archives: Motorcycle Touring Trips

USA South 2020 – Prelaunch Update

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Packed and ready to go.

USA South 2020 kicks off this coming Wednesday October 7th, 2020 in the morning. Dexter is packed less my tent and a few other things (water, sleeping bag, etc) that will be loaded Wednesday morning right before launch.

Follow My Progress

Starting with my last trip, USA West 2020, I started traveling with a Garmin inReach Explorer Satellite Communicator. I started using this device for 3 reasons. 1. If I have a life threating event take place in the middle of nowhere, I can use this device for SOS response pretty much anywhere in the world without the need for cell service. 2. I can communicate via satellite using SMS text messages and coordinate help if I have a mechanical issue and to communicate with friend and family. 3. To share and record my location and journey in near real time with other.

To follow my progress during USA South 2020, Click Here to open the Garmin inReach tracker webpage.

Day 1 – Route

Here is the trip plan again for Day 1

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USA South 2020 Motorcycle Trip

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Kickstand Up – T Minus One Week

My USA South 2020 Motorcycle Trip kicks off one week from today on Wednesday October 7th, 2020. Dexter has some additional upgrades, main bags are packed, servicing on Dexter is done, campsites and rooms are reserved, and everything is green for launch.

USA South 2020 – Trip Plan

USA South 2020 – Georgia Move is my one way motorcycle trip starting in Ramona, California and ending in Douglasville, Georgia. At the end of the trip, I will be flying once again from Atlanta back to Los Angeles to wrap things up in California for the final move. My wife De’Andra and my son, Tristan, will fly from Los Angeles to Atlanta while I drive our embattled Volkswagen Tiguan across country (same route De’Andra and I drove our Chevy Volt and Kia Soul over this last Labor Day weekend),

I am planning a fairly leisurely pace taking ten days to travel 2,984 miles (let’s just round that up a bit and call it 3,000 miles, about half the distance of the USA West 2020 trip earlier this year), of which 139 miles will consist of riding the loop of the Twisted Sisters in Texas. 3 nights during the trip I will be staying in motel rooms and 6 nights I will be camping (the last night of the trip I will be at our new home in Douglasville). The first two nights I will be staying in motels to avoid possible very chilly nights as I will be riding through the high country of Arizona and New Mexico. I wont be staying in a motel again until day 9 in Selma, Alabama mainly just because by that time I will most certainly need to wash the road stink off of me.

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USA West 2020 Day 3 May 25, 2020

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Morning in the Redwoods

I woke up around 7 AM to the sound of the wind rustling through the tops of the nearby Redwoods, nice. I heated some breakfast (Mountain House Breakfast Skillet) and started to break down camp after eating, took some more photos of the area, finished breaking down camp, and packed up Dexter. It was now about 9:30 AM and good grief the sun was already hot and I was sweating heavily. So I mounted Dexter and rode briefly to seek cool refuge among the towering Redwoods within the State Park.

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USA West 2020 – Day 2

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Yuck Morning, Let’s Just Get Rolling 🙂

As stated in Day 1, I arrived at the hotel in Martinez, California at about 2 AM, it was about 4:30 AM by the time I actually wrapped with the nightly chores for preparation for the next day, ate a little bit, and just let the road adrenaline wear off enough where I actually could fall asleep. I forgot to mention that check in took a little bit longer than expected. My reservation I made with an online travel service somehow magically cancelled itself. Not a big deal, but the extra 15 minutes was grating on me after a long hard day / night.

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USA West 2020 – Day 1

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The Start of an Adventure Starts with Planning

I had been planning for this motorcycle trip for just over a year (planning started before last years Nevada – Utah 2019 motorcycle trip, which I will be blogging about later. So much careful planning and preparation from how many miles I was planning for each day, the routes, how much fuel would need to be purchased, the campsites and the few motel stays. I created meal plans that determined how many Mountain House meals to purchase and pack, canned chili and spaghetti, Tabasco sauce, how may meals would be eating out and how many times would I actually cook. There was careful planning on what to pack for clothes and riding gear as I could experience extreme heat and cold, rain and maybe even a little snow all on the same trip. I had to plan how many days I could wear my motorcycle riding jeans before they would be too offensive even for me and thus determined how many riding jeans / pants I would pack. How many days of underwear, socks, and shirts would I need before I would do laundry on the road. And where would I do my laundry on the road, well this was planned out too. Every detail that I thought significant and not so significant was planned and re-planned before the trip was to start. This also of course included attention to my motorcycle, Dexter, as well.

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