Nomadak
Member
Hey folks,
Haven't posted too much since joining. Haven't had terribly too much to say...but now I feel I do.
I am heading west from the Gainesville, Florida area on 7-20-2015. I will be making a journey to the Seattle, Washington area over 16 days in what is the height of summer for much of the U.S.A. . I plan to park the FJR in the Portland area with a old pal for future PAC NW rides. Time doesn't allow me the pleasure to ride back home this summer. Besides, I have two Aprilias in my garage here in Florida for local rides when I return.
I am going to take my time and enjoy the journey....I have some hard, long riding days with some good periods of rest planned at special locales. I have a network of friends strung across the country and it is high time we all reconnected again.
I am a mid level provider (Physician Assistant). I work in a high end specialty (Interventional Radiology). I am fortunate to be abIe to have enough resources and a very understanding wife, to do something like this between jobs. I recently changed employers and the credentialing processes at the new hospitals are taking longer than I initially expected. I have already been sitting around for weeks now waiting. I've already done all the file, house and garage-'honey do' organization projects that I can while still remaining sane. Life is simply too precious to be locked into strict work schedules and be solely a slave to bills or a grind. Life is for living and there is nothing I've found that makes me feel more alive than pointing a motorcycle at the horizon and twisting the throttle. I won't be able to take much of any time off for about 90 straight days when I do begin work in August, so I might as well 'git' while the getting is good!
My route is taking me from Newberry, Fl to Pensacola, Fl-Fort Worth, TX-Truchas, NM- Payson, AZ-Bishop, CA-Chico, CA-Crescent City, CA-Astoria, OR-Tonasket, WA then back to Vancouver, WA to park the bike. I will be posting up on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/michael.rewis to keep family and friends updated when I can. I don't know if I will be able to keep this thread updated each day. I will share it all here eventually.
I have made longer motorcycle journeys on other bikes. 20 years ago, I rode from Gainesville, Florida to Homer Alaska on a 1990 XT600 as a single 27 year old, with wide eyed wanderlust. I didn't return home to Florida from Alaska until last year. A 13+ year span as a critical care flight paramedic in the last frontier, then a stint in graduate school, raising a family and 3 younguns along the way. I will turn 48 on this trip...covering many of the same areas I did on my original big trip. Many of the people I will be seeing on this journey, I met along the way of my life over the last 20 years. It is interesting looking back over my life objectively, how folk move into your sphere, how some really stick to your soul and how others fall away after being close for years.
I am prepping my pack list now and look forward to the ride on this marvelous piece of engineering, my 05 FJR1300. A pal and I did a shake down trip to Moto GP in Austin,TX this past April. There was nary a hitch with anything on the bike then. I have a big Cee Baileys windshield, an I-phone 6, a Senna bluetooth headset, a power port, a Givi top box with the factory sidebags and some highway pegs. Should be a much more comfortable trip than on my old dual sport!
I enjoy sharing my trips with other folks. I hope it proves interesting to you all as the story unfolds.
Haven't posted too much since joining. Haven't had terribly too much to say...but now I feel I do.
I am heading west from the Gainesville, Florida area on 7-20-2015. I will be making a journey to the Seattle, Washington area over 16 days in what is the height of summer for much of the U.S.A. . I plan to park the FJR in the Portland area with a old pal for future PAC NW rides. Time doesn't allow me the pleasure to ride back home this summer. Besides, I have two Aprilias in my garage here in Florida for local rides when I return.
I am going to take my time and enjoy the journey....I have some hard, long riding days with some good periods of rest planned at special locales. I have a network of friends strung across the country and it is high time we all reconnected again.
I am a mid level provider (Physician Assistant). I work in a high end specialty (Interventional Radiology). I am fortunate to be abIe to have enough resources and a very understanding wife, to do something like this between jobs. I recently changed employers and the credentialing processes at the new hospitals are taking longer than I initially expected. I have already been sitting around for weeks now waiting. I've already done all the file, house and garage-'honey do' organization projects that I can while still remaining sane. Life is simply too precious to be locked into strict work schedules and be solely a slave to bills or a grind. Life is for living and there is nothing I've found that makes me feel more alive than pointing a motorcycle at the horizon and twisting the throttle. I won't be able to take much of any time off for about 90 straight days when I do begin work in August, so I might as well 'git' while the getting is good!
My route is taking me from Newberry, Fl to Pensacola, Fl-Fort Worth, TX-Truchas, NM- Payson, AZ-Bishop, CA-Chico, CA-Crescent City, CA-Astoria, OR-Tonasket, WA then back to Vancouver, WA to park the bike. I will be posting up on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/michael.rewis to keep family and friends updated when I can. I don't know if I will be able to keep this thread updated each day. I will share it all here eventually.
I have made longer motorcycle journeys on other bikes. 20 years ago, I rode from Gainesville, Florida to Homer Alaska on a 1990 XT600 as a single 27 year old, with wide eyed wanderlust. I didn't return home to Florida from Alaska until last year. A 13+ year span as a critical care flight paramedic in the last frontier, then a stint in graduate school, raising a family and 3 younguns along the way. I will turn 48 on this trip...covering many of the same areas I did on my original big trip. Many of the people I will be seeing on this journey, I met along the way of my life over the last 20 years. It is interesting looking back over my life objectively, how folk move into your sphere, how some really stick to your soul and how others fall away after being close for years.
I am prepping my pack list now and look forward to the ride on this marvelous piece of engineering, my 05 FJR1300. A pal and I did a shake down trip to Moto GP in Austin,TX this past April. There was nary a hitch with anything on the bike then. I have a big Cee Baileys windshield, an I-phone 6, a Senna bluetooth headset, a power port, a Givi top box with the factory sidebags and some highway pegs. Should be a much more comfortable trip than on my old dual sport!
I enjoy sharing my trips with other folks. I hope it proves interesting to you all as the story unfolds.
