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Message: <blockquote data-quote="art miller" data-source="post: 1397935" data-attributes="member: 19411">Congrats on your retirement and now acting on your dream to take an extensive motorcycle tour.  I retired in 1999 and have taken numerous rides over the roads of the southwest and northwest. As a side note, I went to school at Winona State University back in the 1966's.If I were riding your itinerary, I would head directly to the southern most part of the country you plan to visit and go west to CA. I believe you said you were going to visit San Diego. From there I would go northeast avoiding Los Angeles and work your way back to the coast. Be aware the Pacific Coast Hwy is not open all the way. Check to see where you need to detour but get back on U.S. 1 (Pacific Coast Hwy) to Half Moon Bay, If you have never been to San Francisco you may want to pass through and then pick up U.S.1 again and take it all the way to and through Oregon to wherever you want to exit the coast and head toward Portland. From Portland you can take a very scenic rout along the Columbia River to Hood River (birth place of wind sailing) and cross the river to proceed to Seattle. From Seattle you can choose your routing to Canada.I have suggested you go to the southwest first as the heat in the southwest is something I would avoid in mid and late summer.  The pacific northwest has a nice Indian summer and your chances of good weather are much better in late August and early September. This is just my experience.Get new tires and have the bike fully prepped for the ride. You damn well better make hotel reservations or you may be camping out.</blockquote>

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