USA West 2020 Day 10 Video

USA West 2020 Day 10 I roll out of camp excited to ride over Independence Pass, only to find out that the road is still closed and won’t open until noon or later. Well bollocks!. So, I ended up rolling back to Aspen, Colorado to see if there was another back route option that would take me towards Denver and I-70 more easterly, there was not. I ended up backtracking to Glenwood Springs, Colorado and rode east on I-70.

I did manage a nice little detour on US Highway 6 at Silverthorne, CO and was rewarded with some epic Colorado Scenery to an elevation of around 11,000 feet. Then it was back down the mountain to catch I-70 were I got snarled in some dead stop heavy traffic due to road construction and some ice cold rain….oh joy lol.

I rolled through Denver and 500+ miles to to days destination at Pillsbury Crossing, Kansas were I setup camp at about 3am. Kansas Interstate riding was mostly battling the strong crosswinds that made passing big rig trucks exciting to say the least lol. Today was a long grueling day of almost all interstate miles totaling 716 Miles.

USA West 2020 Day 9 Video

Here is USA West 2020 Day 9 From Green River, UT to Apen, CO. The original route plan was to ride over Independence Pass to Mount Evans and camp at the base of the mountain. However, Mount Evans was to remained closed for all of 2020. So now the plan is to ride over Independence Pass and grab a motel in Idaho Springs, CO.

Upon arriving to the entrance towards Independence Pass, I discovered that the road was still closed from Winter but would open then next day. So, I decided to disperse camp nearby and proceed over the pass the next day.

Quick Update

After USA South 2020 Motorcycle Trip ended, I flew back to California and my wife and I finalized the packing and general chaos for the last phase of our move from Ramona, California to Douglasville, Georgia. On October 26, 2020 I departed Ramona driving our embattled 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan while my wife and son flew out of Los Angeles on October 27, 2020. On October 28, 2020 I arrived at our new to us home in Georgia.

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Drive to Georgia – Move 2020 Part 4

Sunday September 06, 2020 – Day Three of Driving

Shortly before sunrise, De’Andra and I headed East again from Dallas on Interstate 20 under the cover of darkness and a wet fog. It looked liked it had rained the dew was so think. After a quick pitstop in Waskom, TX for a quick hello to De’Andra’s pops, we rolled through Louisiana and descended into the river valley and crossed the mighty Mississippi river into the state of Mississippi. Our planned gas stop was just a few miles into Mississippi at a town called Edwards.

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Drive to Georgia – Move 2020 Part 3

Saturday September 05, 2020 – Day Two of Driving

Started the day heading East on US Highway 70 through the every hyper diligent U.S. Border Patrol Check point where he asked where I was from, where I was going, why is there so much stuff in my car, do I know the person in the car behind, and am I a US citizen. Good grief. Turns out they asked DeAndra the same questions to see if our stories matched. Awe, the life experiences near the southern border where the constitution doesn’t matter (but I digress)

White Sands National Park

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Drive to Georgia – Move 2020 Part 2

It was a good Idea on Paper……..

Ok, so blogging on the road in real time proved to be too difficult with the hours packed into actually driving. Once stopped for the day, focus was then on getting food, washing up, and resting to gear up for the next day’s slog of driving. So, like my motorcycle trips, the remainder of the drive from Ramona, California to Douglasville, Georgia will be posted in Retrospect.

Friday September 04, 2020 – Continued

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Quick Update

I still need to continue writing about my USA West 2020 motorcycle trip, I have stalled on Day 4 (video for Day 4 is posted but not the blog post). I have a good excuse for not writing though, my wife and I successfully closed on our house in Georgia on August 14th. Since then it has been a flurry of activity flying between Southern California and Atlanta, packing, planning, etc etc. Tomorrow, September 4, 2020 we are driving two of our cars from Ramona, CA to Douglasville, GA. We are breaking the trip up into three days with only two brief detours.

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Flying to Atlanta

So there has been a slight pause in my blog posts and YouTube videos. I have not blogged for USA West 2020 Day 4 yet (it’s coming). That last couple of weeks have been crazy as my wife and I have been working on the mortgage process for our soon to be new home. Actually as I am writing this, I am on a plane bound for Atlanta. The closing is scheduled for late afternoon tommorow. Then I fly back to San Diego on Sunday.

Blog posts should resume this weekend (may have some time to kill) or next week. Stay tuned