December 2011

View Larger Map The Sad Day – Goodbye To Harriet The Harley I’ve been on quite a few long motorbike trips and after a couple of weeks you’ve just about had enough of the bike. But not this time. The Harley was so comfortable to ride and we’d had a fantastic time. We woke up […]

View Larger Map Touring Miami Baby! We had a rest day in Miami and then tomorrow we have to return the bike by 5pm. We had a busy day planned in Miami so got up nice and early and wandered South Beach. We then went back to the hotel to get picked up for our […]

View Larger Map To South Beach, Florida Before we left Orlanda, Harry did a quick few laps of the car park on Harriet the Harley just so he could say he’d ridden the bike as well. We left Orlando using the GPS which took us out of the main city and into more rural areas. […]

View Larger Map Roaring Down The Highway The Plan was simple – crank down the Freeway to Orlanda and get Harry to Universal Studios to the Harry Potter Theme Park at opening time. The highway was a lot busier than I expected with heaps of cars but we were still travelling at 65 miles per […]

View Larger Map Now We started Planning We’d finally started planning what we were doing beyond the next few hours and identified that Harry wanted to visit Universal Studio’s Harry Potter Theme Park in Florida. Our plan, this being day 19 with the bike and having to hand it back on day 23, was to […]

View Larger Map Heading Up Into Mississippi We headed out of New Orleans after breakfast in the hotel, and went along the same highway (Highway 10 across the water) that we rode to the swamp tour. We went over the familiar 7 mile bridge and then headed down the main highway for 20 miles before […]

View Larger Map A Day In New Orleans Today was a day to take a look around New Orleans and we opted for a swamp tour.  We would then leave the next morning and head north and around Alabama. We rode down the Chef Menteur Highway (the highway we were staying on) until we were well […]

View Larger Map Heading for New Orleans We knew we were riding to New Orleans today so we agreed to do a slightly scenic route but try and get to New Orleans as early as possible so that we could see all the sights of the city. For the first time in about a week […]

View Larger Map Out Of Lake Village ASAP We woke up at 7am and started to pack our bags and then loaded up the bike. We knew there was nowhere in Lake Village to have breakfast so we decided to hit the road. It was quite cold so we had all of our thermals and […]