I usually mostly lurk but since I have really enjoyed reading many of your trips I thought I might share one of my own!
The idea for this trip started many years ago, but did not come into fruition until last year. My brother in law and I were hanging out talking scooters, which is something we do frequently. During our discussion the topic came up about making "the trip" happen. For years we have been talking about taking off for a couple weeks on scooters, with no plan to see what we could see! I brought up the fact that the next summer (2012) was my 40th B-day. Now this is when things started to pic up speed, my lovely wife got in on the conversation and said we should do it, that it would be a great 40th birthday present:loll:
WOW! what an amazing wife, you see at this time is was between scooters and pretty short on gear! So this is Sept 2011 and the plan was to leave in may 2012.
Time to see who's in for the adventure.
I reached out to my lil brother and tossed the idea to him. He has never even ridden a motorcycle at this time, he calls me a couple days later and says I signed up for the MSF course and got the last spot in the last course of the season, Yeah!
Next I reached out to one of my buddy's in Tennessee, in a matter of days he was all in also, only problem was he also had to buy another bike Doh!
So at this time we have the four of us, myself, Chewy(brother in law), my brother "the Tim", and Mond-O
time to think about me I decided I was going to do the Adventure bike route, and having mostly owned Moto Guzzi's I decided the Quota was what I wanted………..Well after a couple of weeks without even finding one for sale anywhere in the US, so plan B it is……Look for the the deal!
So after about a month of searching I finally came across something that stirred my soul a bit. 2006 Triumph Tiger caspian blue not bad! Made a few phone calls did some negotiating, finally made the deal!
So throughout the next few we got bikes dialed them in and set a date for departure. The plan was to depart on May 27, I would head to arkansas to meet up with my brother in law. Mond-O would come over form Tennessee and meet us there. "the Tim" would be meeting us outside of chicago on thursday the 31st, my birthday!
Then we would head north or maybe west, we really had no plan, and thats it thats the entire plan!
The idea for this trip started many years ago, but did not come into fruition until last year. My brother in law and I were hanging out talking scooters, which is something we do frequently. During our discussion the topic came up about making "the trip" happen. For years we have been talking about taking off for a couple weeks on scooters, with no plan to see what we could see! I brought up the fact that the next summer (2012) was my 40th B-day. Now this is when things started to pic up speed, my lovely wife got in on the conversation and said we should do it, that it would be a great 40th birthday present:loll:
WOW! what an amazing wife, you see at this time is was between scooters and pretty short on gear! So this is Sept 2011 and the plan was to leave in may 2012.
Time to see who's in for the adventure.
I reached out to my lil brother and tossed the idea to him. He has never even ridden a motorcycle at this time, he calls me a couple days later and says I signed up for the MSF course and got the last spot in the last course of the season, Yeah!
Next I reached out to one of my buddy's in Tennessee, in a matter of days he was all in also, only problem was he also had to buy another bike Doh!
So at this time we have the four of us, myself, Chewy(brother in law), my brother "the Tim", and Mond-O
time to think about me I decided I was going to do the Adventure bike route, and having mostly owned Moto Guzzi's I decided the Quota was what I wanted………..Well after a couple of weeks without even finding one for sale anywhere in the US, so plan B it is……Look for the the deal!
So after about a month of searching I finally came across something that stirred my soul a bit. 2006 Triumph Tiger caspian blue not bad! Made a few phone calls did some negotiating, finally made the deal!
So throughout the next few we got bikes dialed them in and set a date for departure. The plan was to depart on May 27, I would head to arkansas to meet up with my brother in law. Mond-O would come over form Tennessee and meet us there. "the Tim" would be meeting us outside of chicago on thursday the 31st, my birthday!
Then we would head north or maybe west, we really had no plan, and thats it thats the entire plan!