Hiking in Yosemite National Park
I think Yosemite National Park is one of my favourite places in the world. It has views like no other, and having visited before we knew that this time around we wanted to do a hike to experience what the … Continued
A Couple More Days of Sea Views
Once we reached San Francisco our route suddenly became a whole lot more difficult. Rather than “let’s ride down the coast to San Francisco”, we now had a whole map of places we fancied visiting but no simple or set … Continued
THE ZIPCODE PROBLEM: USA PAY AT THE PUMP WITH A UK CREDIT CARD
One thing you can’t get away from whilst road tripping in the USA is the need to buy fuel. Virtually all gas stations in the United States have what in the UK we call ‘pay at the pump’. If you … Continued
Riding over the Golden Gate Bridge. Again.
One of the “must dos” on our list for this trip was to spend a little bit of time in San Francisco. We had 36 hours in the city when we were on our Eagle Rider tour a couple of … Continued
An Empty Honey Jar in the Bear Safe
I think it’s fair to say that we put off the camping thing for the first week of our Zartusacan. It’s not that we didn’t want to or didn’t intend to camp instead of paying for motels and hotels every night, … Continued
Washington State and into Oregon
Our “plan”, if you can call it that, was always to use highway 101 as our route down the west coast of the USA. It pretty much hugs the coastline through Washington State, Oregon and California, providing Pacific coast views … Continued
A Day Ride to Cape Flattery
We booked two nights in Port Angeles with the intention of using the day in the middle to explore Olympic National Park, an area of mountains, lakes and forest in the north west of the USA that we had heard … Continued
The Adventure Begins – Flying Motorbikes to Vancouver
Good evening from the Royal Victoria Motel in Port Angeles, our basic but clean and comfortable bed for the night. We are now a few days into our trip and have begun to settle in to the swing of things … Continued
Getting Three Months off Work and other #Zartusacan Questions
With just a couple of working days to go until we finish work for eleven whole weeks (SO close!), I thought I should write a little post on here to address some of the most common #Zartusacan questions that we’ve … Continued
Life is Not Like Instagram. A Response.
This morning Dave Cornthwaite posted an introductory article on his Medium blog entitled Life is Not Like Instagram. In some ways it’s a response to the current trend of people pointing out how artificial social media can be – I think … Continued