When on a road trip...

[SPORT]

For the most part, my rides have been more about the road than the scenery.

What else is there? I could stop at local bars (really not my cup of Joe), I could go to museums...ya right. There is the IBA National Parks ride I have considered.

Nevertheless, if you had 4+ days to just get-a-way on the bike, where would you go? What would your focus be? What would you want to see? Or are you like me and just enjoy the road...wherever you are?

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

Themes work: almost anything will do -- highest points, ferries, Civil War battlefields, quilt shops, breweries/wineries, Amish furniture, frozen custard, mountain passes, M/C shop T-shirts..... You get the idea.

 

[rushes]

I like ta jus take off. Flip a coin... N or S, E or W. Just ride.. Take a road that looks interesting... Who cares if connects to another road. I hate plans.. Explore!!!!

If you see something interesting, stop, find out about it...

Talk to people...

Some of the most interesting people I've ever met, were yus people I saw sittin on their front porch, watching the world go by. Stop, take off your helmet and ask them, "What should I see as I'm passin through this area."

I guarantee, yur life will be enriched! :thumbsup:

 

[monk69]

I ride solo on my bike,and most of the time,I'm on the road alone.The way I like to ride doesn't seem to draw many people that want to ride with me,because I pretty much don't stop till I need gas,or what-ever.My scenery watching usually only varies between a split-sec. look,to stopping the bike long enough to look,or take a quick pic without turning off the bike,or getting off(after I adjust all the parts I sit on,I don't want to loose that adjustment).I try to always pick back curvey roads,and stay off the straight slabs.

I can usually remember most things I see,without having to stop.

NO,I'm not lonely!

 

[canyonman]

maybe a north american strip club tour for a theme B) ? could be fun.

 

[Silver Penguin]

Twisty roads, without heavy traffic. Scenic vistas. Weird, odd, off-the-beaten path attractions e.g. Bishop Castle (CO), Winchester Mystery House (CA), OK Corral (AZ). National Parks as long as the scenery is visible from the road.

Our annual road trip destination is usually selected by the company with which we own a time-share. What do you have for week number 26 this year? First choices are ski resorts, since the skiers go home during the summer. The places are in mountain areas i.e. twisty roads. We stayed in Vail this year, on the way home from NAFO. Another time was Steamboat Springs and we've also stayed in Tahoe.

Another theme is to find a group of forum members and arrange a get-together. We're headed to Arizona in a couple of weeks to meet with friends from a different forum. Just got back from Santa Barbara, where we spent the weekend with some very strange people!!!

Jill

 

[Brody]

Usually, for me, esp. talkin bout a short trip, its about the ride.

Often I make up some reason for the ride. For example a solo 800 mile round trip in one day just to do brunch in Monterey,VA

Give me good roads, decent weather and that's all I need.

But I do a variety of things when I have more that just a couple days.

for example a x-country adventure

I sometimes have the better half on the pillion. Then it becomes more what she wants to see. She's an expert at taking pictures from the back of a moving bike.

Sometimes she is on her own bike and then things are still more different. Our daily range is less for those type trips.

Earlier this summer, I did a bike, hike camp trip solo. I would ride good twisties and get to a camping area with a trailhead in time for a daily hike.

Last year I did 2 months in Europe.

You can use a GPS for finding different rides.

One day when we were in Wales and there were a lot of castle ruins in the area. I punched in all the ruins as waypoints into the GPS then told it to route shortest distance between them. It took us on roads that we'd never even find on a map.

 

[Kromm]

maybe a north american strip club tour for a theme B) ? could be fun.

Canyonman... Now your tallking.. :devilsmiley:

When I plan a long trip, I do both. I pick an area that has a bunch of nice roads, and then plan 1 day "shopping/sightseeing" for the wife.

 

[Powerman]

I met two brothers riding Harleys that had a unique theme, they drove all over the country taking pictures pissing off bridges in rivers. Been at it for four years.

 

[Mrs. Scab]

maybe a north american strip club tour for a theme B) ? could be fun.

Canyonman... Now your tallking.. :devilsmiley:

When I plan a long trip, I do both. I pick an area that has a bunch of nice roads, and then plan 1 day "shopping/sightseeing" for the wife.

Now thats what i call a good ride. Riding is awesome to me, but i still like to take the time to observe and enjoy sights and places ive never been before.

You know.....to stop and smell the roses for say. Especially when you are with the significant other. I feel it creates memories.

 

[Beamer Reamer]

I almost always ride two up, almost never stop except gas or stretch the back a bit. I've been FJR'ing just about a month now. Had to shew off a black bear first trip, got within 20 feet of us on Snoqualmie Pass. Got hit by a bird in the twisties coming home from Anacortes on the second trip. Had a couple of regular trips of twisty roads in the mountain passes. Yesterday, we saw a guy running down the freeway on Blewitt pass at 0800 in the morning in black long johns. He never looked left of right, just kept trekking down the yellow line. Felt like I was in an x-files episode. I would probably take pictures but I need to learn to make myself stop at the sights first.

 

[Silent]

Roadside America

Your 1 stop guide to all the wierdness the USA has to offer (includes alot of Canook land as well). When I go on road trips, I try and find as many of these places as possible B)

EG:

Paul and Babe

the Enterprise in Vulcan AB

Merman in Banff

 

[jekirby]

I enjoy sites that are the ride. It is not necessarily the road, but whats around. I am not one to stop, site see or hike, but like to experience the ride. One of my favorite areas it the Badlands in South Dakota, the Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Route in Custer---gotten stuck on the wildlife loop--maybe interesting once, but once is enough. Drive bys of Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, Devils Tower in WY were good, just to say, "Yeah, I've been there." I like traveling through Reservations, not to gawk, but to experience the Nations within the Nation.

 

[Scab]

maybe a north american strip club tour for a theme B) ? could be fun.

Canyonman... Now your tallking.. :devilsmiley:

Now thats what i call a good ride.

Gentlemen, that looks like permission to me. When do we leave?

 

[LDRydr]

Since I'm an official sworn member of the grammar police I'd have to say I don't do much web-surfing while I ride, thus I don't see many sites. Although sometimes I do visit a site such as a gravesite or a Civil War site. I do, however, see many sights while riding. CLICKY ME FOR ENLIGHTMENT

And this is me looking down a different kind of sight recently:

 

[canyonman]

My bike trips often end up being recon missions for future backpack/hiking car trips for the wife and I.

When I'm riding its about the ride. Then I make plans to go back and take a closer look at the really cool stuff I found on foot.

 

[canyonman]

maybe a north american strip club tour for a theme B) ? could be fun.

Canyonman... Now your tallking.. :devilsmiley:

Now thats what i call a good ride.

Gentlemen, that looks like permission to me. When do we leave?

Somehow I think Im gonna need to take a little more coin on that ride than I usually do!

 

[Scab]

Folding money only! Leave them coins at the vending machine.

 

[HaulinAshe]

How did I miss the part where Stop And Smell The Roses got mixed in with Strip Club Tours???

Scab, you leadin' ?