tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27748421231880137322024-03-04T23:28:15.293-08:00Alaska Motorcycle Adventure 2015Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821493101034983941noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774842123188013732.post-51431222278386925232015-04-13T09:39:00.000-07:002015-04-13T09:39:10.611-07:00MAPS<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
Google Earth, Google
Maps and GPS Rout planning can be a daunting Task, though at first glance it
seems so simple, “if you want to travel from California to Alaska just put in
your start point and end point and it does the work for you” well as it turns
out it is a timely process of Picking the sights you want to see and the setting
way points on the Roads you would like to ride on the way, A straight line or
fastest route is not likely the one you will want to take. After you have
selected your rout you will then need to either make legible maps with step by
step directions (Google maps will do this part for you quite well) or if you’re
taking a GPS you will need to transfer the rout in to a GPS or GPX file for
import to you GPS unit. Its all a time intensive
process, but not without its reward, in fact I mention Google earth because if
you also open your rout in Google Earth you may find some unexpected treasures!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As you look deeper/closer to each road you have selected you
will also see alternate routes that get you to the same place, it is quite
common that I find a much better road or an embedded photo left by another user
that ultimately has me change my plans for a much better road. Its these little
things that can make a good ride in to an epic adventure. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You can get overwhelmed so it’s good to just take one
section at a time for the longer trips, and know its well worth the effort in
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Below is a Draft of the Rout Plan for the 2015 Alaska
Adventure, as you can see we cover a lot of ground, so the trip is divided up
into Days. We will have both GPS units loaded with the maps routs and way-points
and hard copy maps with the rout outlined on it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As a Note: in 2013 I did not take a GPS but it did print out
each days plan with detailed turn by turn directions, I found that after so
much planning I actually did not use the Maps or directions on a regular bases,
rather I would look at them in the morning and focus on particular
destinations, if I got wondered of course (got lost) I could always go back to
the map. This year the number of special roads and sights that are just off the
main road, that I have planned the GPS just makes sense. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My Mapping Starts with Google maps, setting way-points as
destinations. This helps me plan each days overall mileage and basic rout, I
then remap the entire rout in Garmin BaceCamp to create the initial GPS Rout. Its after this step I go back to Google maps
and Google Earth and start looking for those unique roads and sights, I can then
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Sounds like a lot of rework, and yes it is, but BaceCamp is
the tool I’m using to load my GPS and it is not nearly as up to date or as detailed
and Google map and or Earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Note: I have found the numbering your way-points in BaceCamp
will make the process of creating and modifying routs much easier. I will use a
1 for Day one and .0 - .1 and so on to numerate each way-point for that day, it
works for me!<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the End I create Google Map, Google Earth and GPX Files
for each person on the trip, they can
load there GPS Print a Map for the family and print one to take along If they
would like.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821493101034983941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774842123188013732.post-29399829394668580392015-04-08T15:50:00.002-07:002015-04-08T15:50:11.081-07:00ALASKA 2015<div class="MsoNormal">
ALASKA !<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alaska has a pull no other state has, their seems to be a
sense of freedom, a sense of Adventure, its quite a basic feeling coming from
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Thinking of the earliest explorers, of any land, there was
this sense of a need to explore, travel and seek new horizons they all had in common. Early explorers traveled over sea and over
vast expanses of land to head this call of adventure to find new land, a fresh start meeting new
people and maybe gain some new hopes and dreams along the way. For them it was a
commitment to a new life giving up every security and every sense of a home
they and their families may have developed over the years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today that commitment to and sacrifice is not the same, but
the call is still there, I think adventure is a primal part of every persons sole,
though some have a way of pushing it down to suppression and others, like me, cannot
resist the temptation to Go…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alaska is the last frontier, meaning you can still be a settler
within the state, you can also walk off in to its wilderness and never return,
living off the land and likely never seeing another sole again. Alaska is so large
Texas would get lost in its thick woods and glacier filled valleys and you
would still have a place so lager you could lose most any states in the union
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Adding to the sense of adventure from the US, you must travel
through another country to get to Alaska, and for people living in the US that is
unique. Much of Alaska is untouched by
Man, and animals live in harmony with the land and most without contact with human, in fact, in most city’s just a
few feet outside city limits you are 100% back to nature in all its glory. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Explorers and Adventure seekers, it’s truly an amazing place! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why Ride <u>to</u> Alaska? You can definitely Fly in and
Ride to all the sights and cut the mileage down and make the trip a Whole Lot easier!
I can actually see the reasoning hear, but I just don’t seem to want to do it
that way (the majority of people Ride to Alaska rather than Fly in and ride). I
think this has to do with the above reasons Plus and this is a big one you
would miss out on the ever changing landscape, you would not have the sense of accomplishment
and “there is a whole lot to see between here and there. The Biggest reason to
Ride may not be so obvious at first, and if you are new to Adventure Travel, I will let you in on a secret, its not just the sights and all this nature! and yes I would do it for that alone but “it’s the people you will meet” as alone as you
might think you will get, as remote as you might fill, you’re going to meet
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If you are alone they will approach
you… it starts like this - where are you
from, where are you headed, how long have you been on the road, I’ve always dreamed of doing what you are
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If they are local they will start pointing you to some of the
areas coolest things around and asking if you need anything, if your looking
for a place to eat or stay and they will get you pointed in the right
direction. If you stay around long enough you are going to learn the history of
the areas the person is from and much more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If they are a fellow traveler it will go more like this,
which way are you coming from, how are the roads, was the weather OK, where is
the next gas stop. Again stay around long enough and you will get to know them
there story and much more. People are so open and so friendly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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the locals, once you do they will open up, a group is intimidating and as dirty
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It’s amazing to me when I’m alone or with one
other person how many people open up and share there life with me, it is the
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<b>Book Recommendation:</b></div>
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Travels with Charley (In Search of America) by Mr. John Steinbeck</div>
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Today we ride through Denali National Park (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_McKinley" title="Mount McKinley"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mount McKinley</span></a>), </div>
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The highest mountain in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" title="North America"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">North America</span></a>.
The park encompasses more than 6 million acres Locals call in Denali,
then in 1886 a gold prospector William Dickey named it Mount McKinley after
President William McKinley. Also well to note that the native Athabascan people
call the mountain Denali, meaning "The Great One." Out of
respect I always try to refer to the area and the great mountain and Denali, as
well I don’t realy want to pay homage to the “Dick_ey” who was looking for
support from the then president McKinley whom I should note never visited the
park, the mountain or Alaska for that matter, its Deali! The mountain is 20,237
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Tallest Mountain 1,000 feet “taller” than Mount Everest ?
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There is a distinction between measuring "highest"
and "tallest." The highest mountain is determined by measuring a
mountain's highest point above sea level. The tallest mountain is measured from
base to summit. Using that measurement, Mount McKinley is taller than <a href="http://www.livescience.com/23359-mount-everest.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mount Everest</span></a>.
McKinley rises about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) from its base, which is a
greater vertical rise than Mount Everest’s 12,000-foot rise (3,700 meters) from
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to our right all day. Fairbanks I have never visited so I am looking forward to
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is the largest city in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Interior<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>region of Alaska, and third largest in
the state, after Anchorage, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Juneau.
It is the principal city of the Fairbanks, Alaska,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Metropolitan Statistical Area<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which encompasses all of the Fairbanks
North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the
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Today I have been looking forward to for a long time, the
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the Yukon River and climbs up the mountain range to the top and stays there all
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The Crossing of the Yukon River gives you pause as the
mighty river pushes under the ferry, you can see and feel its power as full
size trees are flowing with it, looking at the other side you see the ferry
struggle to keep ground as cars precariously take to the shore and I say to
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We ride the mountain tops from here to the boarder where the
smooth roads will turn to pothole hell, I feel like the Canadians must have a
road crew just out of sight waiting to sweep the road clean as you pass, next
customer Please, and thank you, then you get to the US side and they are laying
mortars’ every 100 yards as you pass they say dam it lets blow the road up some
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It’s a lonely outpost at the border, but its still all
business, don’t pull up tell the guy wakes up and turns the light on that says
pull forward they are a little pissy about that! In 2013 the guy stood there
looking at me finally waved his arm so I moved forward, you would think I
stepped on his puppy, he said he was waiting for me to turn my head light off,
his waving arm was to tell me to turn off the head light so he could see my
license plate? (it’s a motorcycle BTW) any way we were about 5min before the
boarder closed, so he likely closed the books and was ready to call it a night
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census-designated place in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United
States. Chicken is a community founded on gold mining and is one of the few
surviving gold rush towns in Alaska. The population was 7 in 2010 and in recent
years there have become two Chickens, I guess whom ever owned the land next to
the highway decided to put up a new town, OK a few buildings, it now sits in
front of the original Chicken, which is also made up of just a few buildings
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Dust to Dawson <a href="http://dawsoncity.ca/event/dust-2-dawson-motorcycle-ride-rally/">http://dawsoncity.ca/event/dust-2-dawson-motorcycle-ride-rally/</a></div>
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the wilderness, and with a party raging in to the night I’m suspect sleep may not have been an easy thing to achieve.<br />
Though our original plan was to arrive during this event our plans took an early change and the Ferry from Vancouver island to Prince Rupert did not sail on the day we intended, this would put a three day hold in our plan, we all felt the trip to Vancouver island and the Ferry ride was not to be missed, and seeing so many people, well we could miss that!> this new plan also gave us the extra time on the island we all wanted and took the rush out of the first few day we did not<br />
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this girl, a wild-free-spirit traveling gypsy
Chick that is just existing on the kindness and generosity of others. I'm thinking holly hell, out hear there is like
50 people in the nearest 1000 miles it must take an eternity to get anywhere Just waiting on a Ride. she did ask for a ride, but I was at capacity, and she could not fit on my bike with all her
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that someday soon she would get a ride)<br />
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me……..what the heck! Not only that she had three friends and they were all set
up singing in the park when I arrived! Yikes, did I take a wrong turn, was there a time warp, how did
that happen… well maybe traveling on the generosity of others is the fast way
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During our travels today you can really tell we are making
our way north, trees are smaller and the terrain looks like the weather really
takes its toll on things this far north. Tomorrow I hope to make it to the
arctic circle, and that will mark the farthest
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821493101034983941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774842123188013732.post-27592692972056067762015-02-22T16:38:00.003-08:002015-08-26T10:35:11.466-07:00Day Seven: Watson Lake to the City of Whitehorse<div class="MsoNormal">
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large freeway returns, giving me the feeling of being back in the states (lower
48 of the united states) this means dealing with More RV’s larger trucks and
fast moving traffic, I actually get the feeling hear I missed something, lake
we passed out of the wilderness, in reality we are now in the Vast Yukon
Territory and as far from any large metropolitan area as we have been, looking
at the map and wow and I’m reconnected with reality we are in the middle of it
now, and though this larger roadway my give one the feeling of security we are
in the greater outreaches of the world now, this adventure can go in any
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As we move north we slide back in to British Colombia and
then back out to the Yokon, then the progression seems to take us steeper north
before reaching west then north again, these are large stretches of road but my
sense of direction seems tuned in to where we need to go and I feel like Alaska
is some ware over these peaks, stopping and looking at the map, Alaska is a
long, long way off but at least the direction is right, though we will travel much
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though on my last trip I saw no more than the camp site I stayed in and the gas
station I field up in, (same gas station both direction), I think I was way too
focused on the days distance and what was coming next, I must digress a
bit, but this tends to be a common
problem with trips like this, we look forward to our next destination and the
road we need to travel to get there, as in life we need to keep in mind “the
adventure is hear, in the moment we are in, we are living it! When we do get to
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On my last trip I stayed at the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQoAIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Frobertservicecampground.com%2F&ei=KwuGVObEGMP8oQSf_4GACw&usg=AFQjCNFUV3sYyzOkrNJen9_MN0Lyz0-khA&sig2=EDax04bQfseo9L80xOEoKg&bvm=bv.81449611,d.cGU"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Robert
Service Campground</span></a>, a bit of a hippy commune, and at first the high
price and all the people was a bit too much for me to handle at the time, I
eventually settled in or accepted it, but I’m just not sure what I should do
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12821493101034983941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774842123188013732.post-47111404982547128772015-02-22T16:28:00.002-08:002015-08-26T10:35:11.477-07:00Day Six: Hyder AK to Watson Lake<div class="MsoNormal">
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rode the Cassiar on the way up and the Alaska Hwy on the way back, and though
you hear people talking about the challenge of the Cassiar Vs the easy rout of
the Alaska Hwy, on my trip I felt the Alaska Hwy was more of a challenge in
terms of fatigue and the risk of other drivers colliding with you. Also on the
Cassiar you feel like you’re on an adventure whereas on the Alaska Hwy highway
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the world ranging from 34 to 44 meters. We will move on from here to Meziadin
Lake, one of the many Lakes that seem to go on forever, and with amazing
shorelines I feel like we could stay and explore areas like these for a week at
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Stewart to Hyder, in 2013 I stopped at the junction of 37 and 37A the Glacier
Hwy wondering what I am going to miss not going to Hyder, Im glad to be traveling this way today. A
little history, In 2013 I was Traveling with live long friend Tim, and as we
approached this intersection we were introduced to the Mobile Gas Station
outposts, (you have to apply right there on the spot, take a test and “pass”
then get approved for an authorization code so that you can operate the pump,
its all automated and there is no attendant or phone number to call if it does
not work, well Tim was denied “Oh SiHt) well after that expereance we thought
it best to keep to plan and work our way north. Well not this trip we want to
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Canadian mining engineer who envisioned a bright future for the area. Hyder was
the only practical point of access to the silver mines in Canada; the community
became the port, supply point, and post office for miners by 1917. Hyder's boom
years were the 1920s, when the Riverside Mine on the U.S. side extracted gold,
silver, copper, lead, zinc, and tungsten. The mine operated from 1924 to 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really marking a deadline we need to meet, I’m actually nervous I will miss the
ship and nervous about securing my bike so it does not fall over, as well I
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2013 trip, but at the time I just could not see myself riding on a ferry rather
than riding my motorcycle. My plan then was to ride a three day Ferry down and
experiencing the full inside passage and the camaraderie that goes with it, I
had visions of a Hippie tent town aboard a ship cursing down and amazing
labyrinth of mountains and sea, then jumping on my bike and riding only two
more days home, it was just too much to think my trip would be over like that
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ferry on the way up, I’m adding an important piece missing from road travel and
experiencing something new, I just need to find something to do for 16hrs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forest) has long been on my list of places to explore, <span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">With an area of 628,115 acres (2,541.89 km</span><sup><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">2</span></sup><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">), it nearly surrounds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Olympic National Park<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Olympic Mountain<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">range. Olympic National Forest contains parts of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Clallam<span style="color: #252525;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Grays Harbor<span style="color: #252525;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Jefferson<span style="color: #252525;">, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Mason<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">counties. The landscape of the national forest varies,
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its vast rain forest would be a great place to spend time exploring, but we are
on the bikes and need to get to the ferry at Port Angeles and on to Vancouver
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since the mid-1990s has been mild enough in a few areas to grow
subtropical </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean" title="Mediterranean"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mediterranean</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> crops such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive" title="Olive"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">olives</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon" title="Lemon"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">lemons</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. We can expect larger climate changes
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were the first Europeans to circumnavigate Vancouver Island. On April 8, 1806,
Captain John D'Wolf of</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol,_Rhode_Island" title="Bristol, Rhode Island"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bristol, Rhode Island</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> sailed the Juno to Newettee, a small
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question of the U.S. Oregon Territory borders. It awarded all of Vancouver
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British Columbia. In this harbor you feel as if you have just completed a long
gurney to a distant land, well a new country yes but not far from the US and
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Coos Bay is a quaint little town….no wait change that this
is the largest city on the Oregon Coast! Well it just seems small and quaint; I
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650 and my friend also Chris was on an XT500 we were on our first real bike
adventure and we thought no better way to ride up the cost than to ride the
sand dunes of the Oregon coast, we started just north of here in Lakeside, and
we spent the next 2hrs riding about 100 yards of sand and heading back to the
pavement! Needless to say they sank like a rock on water, well at least the KLR
did, Chris had a bit better luck with the XT but we learned quick you need to
ride the hard pack near the water to get anywhere fast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Florence wrecked along the Oregon Coast near Florence on November 18, 1875. In
the wreckage the wooden Name Plate from the boat was found and a man named
Thomas Safly nailed this wooden board (the ship’s nameplate) over the door of
the hotel in downtown Florence that also served as the post office. “With that,
Florence became the name of the town.” The better stories are told of the
native people of the land and how they came up with the name, just ask someone
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if you have time and are in the mood for a real tourist trap/stop you can take
the Tillamook tour, Tillamook does have good cheese and as you might expect are
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York? Well that where they got the name in 1911 (it was named “Rockaway” and
was connected by train to Portland in 1912, and in 1987 they changed the name
to Rockaway Beach just like New York, well not really! But hay they did invent
the Pronto Pup?! A brand of corn Dog in the late 1930’s..ok moving on! And we
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winter of 1805–1806 at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Fort
Clatsop<span style="color: #252525;">, a small log structure south and west of
modern-day Astoria. The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them
back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then
returned east the way they came. Today the fort has been recreated and is now a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>historical park<span style="color: #252525;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Aberdeen<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">and because it
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Scotland which is located between the rivers 'Don' at the north and the river
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">California to Oregon</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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hear, as you may have already read, this trip is quite a bit different from
2013 and starting today the difference will be felt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I look back at 2013, all I could think about on this day
was mileage, how many miles can I do in one day, well I did 700 Miles on
California interstate 5, and had to endure 113 degree heat for much of the day…
ouch!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This time the trip takes me directly to the Coast Highway 1
by way of San Francisco the over the New bay Bridge and the nostalgic Golden
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The Bay Bridge was finished on November 12<sup>th</sup> 1936
allowing for easier passage to San Francisco from the East Bay; the new span we
cross today was completed and open to the public on September 2, 2013 it is a
more elegant passage and the Views will be even better once the Old Span has
been completely removed!<o:p></o:p></div>
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A short ride through San Francisco and we cross the Golden
Gate, opened on May 27<sup>th</sup> 1937 this bridge brought quick access to
the City from the north Bay, but more so it now stood as a symbol of
magnificence to all who crossed under it by sea! The gate way to the gold
country now had an iconic symbol to stand tall. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just a bit of Trivia only 11 construction workers lost their
lives building the golden gate, but 28 died building the Bay Bridge (they just
don’t talk about that as much) there were no deaths associated with the
building of the new span!<o:p></o:p></div>
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From hear we take
California highway 1 to 101 through Santa Rosa, and up to Cloverdale once known
as Markleville, as part of a Mexican Grant in 1865 and was incorporated in 1872
when the Pacific Railroad arrived in 1872, as it turns out the tribes that
inhabited this land were illegally displaced and in 1979 a Pomo woman finally
filed a class action lawsuit returning the land to the original owners as of
1983 (or their descendants) but in 1994 the feds took it back with a land use
grant to put a freeway (the highway 101 bypass) right through the tribal land
and the land was lost for good. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We will take the 101 Bypass and link to Highway 128 and over
to Highway 1 and follow the California Coast to Oregon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would be remiss not to mention the Navarro Winery on
Highway 128, some Great wine and a nice place to stop and relax!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The history up the coast is grand, and Places like
Mendocino, Noyo Bay, Fort Bragg, farther up to WestPort and finally connecting
back to 101 at Leggett<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your next Must see is Avenue of the Giants (highway 254),
where you will be both impressed and quite shocked at the sight of Large
Redwood trees and the mass destruction people have had on the area, the Massive
trees we see today are just a small sample of the giants that stood hear a
hundred years ago, it’s hard to imagine these are small trees. The ride is well
worth the time and is a must to for a motorcycle traveler in this area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We will hit the coast again in Eureka and push our way up
through Crescent city and across the state line in to Oregon and in to
Brookings<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Brookings, named after
John E. Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber and Box Company, which
founded the city in 1908<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Brookings, became the
first site in the continental United States to suffer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">aerial
bombardment in wartime the date was September 9<sup>th</sup> 1942<span style="color: #252525;">. A Japanese floatplane piloted by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Nobuo Fujita<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">launched from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>submarine
I-25<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">was loaded with incendiary bombs and sent to start
massive fires in the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, The attack caused
only minor damage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Fujita was invited back to Brookings in 1962
and he presented the town his family's 400-year-old samurai sword in friendship
after the Japanese government was given assurances that he would not be tried
as a war criminal. Brookings made him an honorary citizen several days before
his death in 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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