18 Days, PA to Key West and Back
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fjrob1300
Frost-back1 IBA 34867 / Brown Sider 002/ Dark Side
That's way too fun. I did that one 2 years ago. We left from Gate City VA and did the same as you. Went right to the coast. We stayed on HWY 1 as much as possible. We avoided the main hwy and stuck to secondary's.
edit: Now that I've read your entire report I see we did much the same trip. Good job on the report.
edit: Now that I've read your entire report I see we did much the same trip. Good job on the report.
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Canadian FJR
Canadian FJR
Did that run from Nova Scotia two years ago also. Thanks for the ride report.
Canadian FJR
Canadian FJR
Just read your whole trip log. What a great adventure.
Gave me some great insight for a future trip down that-a-way.
Note to self: stay out of Floriduh.
Gave me some great insight for a future trip down that-a-way.
Note to self: stay out of Floriduh.
cometman
Well-known member
Thanks for the ride report. Very cool. One of the best I have ever read. :clapping:
Wow, UweRoss!
What a treat! Thanks for taking us along.
Really enjoyed that.
What a treat! Thanks for taking us along.
Really enjoyed that.
FJR-RemingtonRider
Their Sunset / My Sunrise
Thanks, Very nice report.
Very nice pics of scenes.
Stretching a trip out that long, probably really enhances the enjoyment of riding....Gotta try it one day.
Very nice pics of scenes.
Stretching a trip out that long, probably really enhances the enjoyment of riding....Gotta try it one day.
Thanks for the nice read. The maps were a nice touch too. I've never seen that part of the country so it was cool for me. Nice job with the roadside repair too.
Niehart
Pie Smuggler
Great stuff! Thanks for taking us along.
N_Lindz
Well-known member
Great report, thanks!
UweRoss
Well-known member
Thanks for the kind words about the report guys!
The maps were were actually pretty easy this time. The 2010 version of Streets and Trips can export a route straight to a .GPX file, which you can load right into a Garmin. A couple of days before we left, we tried loading the full trip, but our Zumos protested "Too many waypoints" (you need a lot of waypoints to keep you on the A1A and the BRP; most trip-routing alogorithms try very hard to keep you OFF those roads).
So I what I did is snip it onto daily sections, and we loaded a route for each day into our Zumos every morning. This worked out nicely because they would constantly calculate and display an ETA for that day's destination, and had the added benefit that I had map file for each day almost done when we got home.
If anyone is interested, here are some previous reports with similar maps; this one is from our one-week Appalachian tour in 2007 and has FJR content:
https://uweross.org/Uwe/FJR/AppalachianTrip.html
And our cross-continent tour in 2006, which does not have FJR content:
https://uweross.org/Uwe/V-Strom/Trip06.htm
The one is why I won't post my reports directly on a forum, or my pictures on a photo-hosting site; they're too ephemeral; that forum doesn't exist anymore. Had I not managed to slurp the report before they went poof, the work I put into that would have been gone. Even then, it took many hours to get the slurped data to look good on a regular website.
As for the roadside repair: Eric make fun of the "Truck-Like" bikes that I use for touring, but somehow I always end up carrying the tools; there never seems to be enough room for them on his little ZZR.
-Uwe-
It depends what your objective is. Mine was to see it -- I knew the roads wouldn't be particularly fun. I've been to Florida a bunch of times, down the interstate to Orlando, and once flying a light plane to Lakeland and back. That ain't seeing it. This was. But now that I've seen it, I'm probably not going back there on a bike, except maybe as part of Four Corners Tour, which I hope to do at some point, but then I'll do the interstates through most of Florida again. ;-)
I always do daily maps in reports; in fact I think a trip report is incomplete without such maps. ;-)
The maps were were actually pretty easy this time. The 2010 version of Streets and Trips can export a route straight to a .GPX file, which you can load right into a Garmin. A couple of days before we left, we tried loading the full trip, but our Zumos protested "Too many waypoints" (you need a lot of waypoints to keep you on the A1A and the BRP; most trip-routing alogorithms try very hard to keep you OFF those roads).
So I what I did is snip it onto daily sections, and we loaded a route for each day into our Zumos every morning. This worked out nicely because they would constantly calculate and display an ETA for that day's destination, and had the added benefit that I had map file for each day almost done when we got home.
If anyone is interested, here are some previous reports with similar maps; this one is from our one-week Appalachian tour in 2007 and has FJR content:
https://uweross.org/Uwe/FJR/AppalachianTrip.html
And our cross-continent tour in 2006, which does not have FJR content:
https://uweross.org/Uwe/V-Strom/Trip06.htm
The one is why I won't post my reports directly on a forum, or my pictures on a photo-hosting site; they're too ephemeral; that forum doesn't exist anymore. Had I not managed to slurp the report before they went poof, the work I put into that would have been gone. Even then, it took many hours to get the slurped data to look good on a regular website.
As for the roadside repair: Eric make fun of the "Truck-Like" bikes that I use for touring, but somehow I always end up carrying the tools; there never seems to be enough room for them on his little ZZR.
-Uwe-
James Burleigh
Well-known member
Wow! Great ride, great ride report. Thanks. DD
