Father & Son Road Trip Of 2011
View Larger Map After hitting the breakfast in the hotel, we headed out of Memphis fairly early. The outskirts of Memphis was pretty run down with a police station with 100+ police cars all around – not something you see in Australia. We then found the highway which took us completely out of the Memphis […]
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View Larger Map We had so much planned to do in Memphis and knew we had a 2 and a half hour ride to get there so we got packed and ready to go by around 7:30am. Sounds easy right?? Those with 17 yo sons know it’s a miracle if it happens. But we did […]
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View Larger Map I’ve done some amazing riding but this day over the Ozarks from Missouri into Arkansas ranks up there with some of the best. We hit every back road we could from the start of the day down Route 37 for about 20 miles until we reached the town of Cassville. Then the […]
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View Larger Map Jumped on the bike and headed for Catoosa – and our old friend Route 66. There was more traffic on this section of road but just a little way away beside it was the interstate which connected much the same places in a smaller distance which meant it was only used by […]
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View Larger Map We wanted to see a bit of Wichita so we woke up at around 7 am and quickly packed the bike and got fully prepared to leave for the 3 hour or so ride in. Some sections were purely desert but mainly it was farmland with the occasional small town. Most of […]
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View Larger Map As a kid, every Western movie I ever saw had Monument Valley in it and Dodge City. So I got me the hell into Dodge. We headed for Boot Hill and found the nearby Tourist Info Centre – we went in and had a chat and got the low down on what […]
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View Larger Map I need to fix up the map above. We went from Las Vegas, New Mexico (not Nevada) to Dodge City, Kansas. We woke up at around 6:30am and went downstairs to where Shirley had prepared a hot breakfast with soup, sausages, eggs and other things for us. Nice start to the day. […]
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View Larger Map Out of Durango in -4 C (25F) to Pagosa Springs on Highway 160 (the old Route 66), with snow on either side of the road. With signs telling us we hitting 8,000 above sea level, we knew we were in for a fairly chilly day. There were farms on either side of […]
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View Larger Map Ooooh, this was a cold day! It dawned with perfectly blue skies, but with a ride hitting over 6,600 feet we were always going to get chilly at some stage. It started off a great day riding as we went south out of Blanding onto: Hovenweep Road, Reservation Road and Indian Route […]
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This was one of the day we were really looking forward to. The plan was to head to the Grand Canyon and then see if we could enjoy Monument Valley the same day. It was off on an early start out of Williams, Arizona heading up Highway 180 to Grand Canyon Village, firstly through forest […]
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