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Route 66 Connections: No Expectations, No Focus
When traveling without expectations, a journey is at first a series of disconnected experiences because it occurs organically, not in a series of marketing meetings that plan it from start to finish. That’s where I’ve been for the past two … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Food, Main Street, Motorcycle, Museum
Tagged Route 66, Small Town Cafe, Small Town Survival
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Route 66: There Will be Serendiculous Wrong Turns
With a multitude of cutoff towns and rerouted roads, there is not one true path for Route 66. You pick an era and hope for the best. For the most part, Ed and I have been following the 1926-30 route … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Food, Main Street, Motorcycle, Museum, National Historic Register
Tagged Route 66, Small Town Cafe, Travel Serindipity
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River Whitecaps, Friends Reunited & a Mountain Trifecta
RENTON, WASHINGTON—Freed from the self-imposed constraints of my preparatory daydreams, I’ve relished the the unexpected rewards of vagabondage. No longer eschewing the Interstates, I followed I-84 from Pocatello to Portland. Much of it follows the Columbia River and its gorge … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Motorcycle, Travel
Tagged Columbia River, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Oregon, Portland
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Along Interstate 84, US 30 Sustains Oregon Small Towns
PENDLETON, OREGON—Along much of its route through Oregon, US Highway 30, is now co-located with (subsumed by) Interstate 84, which runs from Pocatello, Idaho, to Portland, Oregon. Destined for Pendleton, Oregon, the GPS had a simple command this morning: Drive … Continue reading
Posted in Craft Beer, Food, Lodging, Main Street, Motorcycle, Travel
Tagged Baker City, Main Street, Oregon, Pendleton, US Highway System
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Rain Suit Riding & Beer-Based Decision-Making
POCATELLO, IDAHO—Laying the weather map’s bolus of bad weather over the road map devoid of small town dots that connect the larger cities called for a long day in the saddle to compress two days of rainy riding into one. … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Main Street, Motorcycle, Travel
Tagged Railroads, Transportation Progress, US Highway System
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Travel Challenges: Leaving Home & Finding One’s Way
NAUVOO, ILLINOIS—Given the chronic religious persecution that drove the Latter Day Saints from their homes here on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, I shouldn’t really complain about my day. The challenges of my day are evanescent giggles compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Lodging, Main Street, Motorcycle, Travel
Tagged John Deere, Nauvoo, Travel Technology
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Heading East for Home but Waylaid by Lindbergh’s VW Beetle
LITTLE FALLS, MINNESOTA—Heading home after two weeks on the road, crossing into my home time zone yesterday at the border of North Dakota and Minnesota infected me with get-home-itis. Starting every day by riding into the rising sun as it … Continue reading
Posted in Craft Beer, Food, Lodging, Motorcycle, Museum, Travel
Tagged Lindbergh Boyhood Home, Little Falls, Minnesota, Motorcycle, Travel
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Tonka Trucks Discover the Spirit in North Dakota
DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA—North Dakota’s license plate is a colorful image of the plains, and in the sky it says “Discover the Spirit.” In the lower left corner stands a bison on two stems of wheat, opposite of the ready-to-harvest … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Lodging, Motorcycle, Museum, Service, Travel
Tagged Man Camps, Montana, Motorcycle, North Dakota, Oil Boom, Road Construction
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