Author Archives: revmook

Texas, across the desert, Mesa, Salton Sea and back to Los Angeles

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Total distance: 268.9 mi
Total climbing: 9335 ft
Download file: endtrip.gpx
Total distance: 281.78 mi
Total climbing: 4411 ft
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Total distance: 101.56 mi
Total climbing: 2061 ft
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Total distance: 159.71 mi
Total climbing: 5907 ft
Download file: 20121016.gpx
Total distance: 271.75 mi
Total climbing: 10264 ft
Download file: 20121015.gpx
Total distance: 219.08 mi
Total climbing: 9217 ft
Download file: 20121014.gpx

Florida, to Tejas!

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I didn’t take too many photos and I got wet quite a bit riding in the Florida panhandle.  I hiked out 2.5 miles threw a swamp to a camping spot and had the worst experience with mosquitoes evea.

Total distance: 263.61 mi
Total climbing: 4604 ft
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Total distance: 267.7 mi
Total climbing: 2763 ft
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Total distance: 157.36 mi
Total climbing: 2612 ft
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Total distance: 129.66 mi
Total climbing: 2725 ft
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Total distance: 399.95 mi
Total climbing: 2847 ft
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Total distance: 148.27 mi
Total climbing: 760 ft
Download file: 20120927.gpx

 

Florida

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I’m still in Florida, which is nice because I always felt like I should spend more time here.  Some friends from LA flew out here and we traveled around and saw things I would never normally do, like check out an alligator farm, or look at the Coral Castle.  I’ve also pulled my old rusty car from storage and put it back together somewhat.  here are a bunch of photos.

Middle of Kansas, to Chicago, then Florida.

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Total distance: 113.8 mi
Total climbing: 3716 ft
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Total distance: 154.53 mi
Total climbing: 6861 ft
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Total distance: 192.8 mi
Total climbing: 11260 ft
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Total distance: 148.81 mi
Total climbing: 5471 ft
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Total distance: 19.34 mi
Total climbing: 1488 ft
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Total distance: 33.9 mi
Total climbing: 801 ft
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Total distance: 202.5 mi
Total climbing: 4782 ft
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Total distance: 152.78 mi
Total climbing: 12843 ft
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Total distance: 181.46 mi
Total climbing: 18181 ft
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Total distance: 317.76 mi
Total climbing: 6171 ft
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Total distance: 185.53 mi
Total climbing: 1290 ft
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Total distance: 81.44 mi
Total climbing: 1782 ft
Download file: 20120906.gpx

 

Colorado Springs to the middle of Kansas

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I took off pretty early in the morning from the Springs, I thought it was going to rain all day, but I stayed dry.  I ended up next to a dam, by a lake where I found a beer coozie on the beach and free wireless internet provided by the “rural phone company”.  I almost dropped the bike on a muddy farm road, and almost buried the rear wheel trying to turn around.  That would have sucked.  Here are some photos for the day.

Total distance: 241.87 mi
Total climbing: 4841 ft
Download file: 20120824.gpx

Boise to Colorado Springs

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I wasn’t planing on going to Colorado Springs, but a friend of mine just moved there and bad weather in Wyoming pushed me south.  Here I am!

Total distance: 172.29 mi
Total climbing: 8633 ft
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Total distance: 181.18 mi
Total climbing: 14584 ft
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Total distance: 449.54 mi
Total climbing: 15671 ft
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Portland to Boise

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Half of my Portland photos are on my dslr, which I sent back to LA.  Oooops.  This camera I got from Craigslist for $45 from a highschool kid.  It’s small, waterproof and shockproof.

Total distance: 259.56 mi
Total climbing: 10271 ft
Download file: 20120817.gpx

I stayed the night on the side of the freeway.  I didn’t sleep well, but I did learn about this guy who pioneered the Oregon Trail.  I’ll try and add to this post more about him, but I don’t know when that will be.

 

Total distance: 113.27 mi
Total climbing: 14694 ft
Download file: 20120818.gpx

Oakland to Portland

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The trip from Oakland to Portland took a few days, which was nice because the idea was to stay on slow side roads and camp quite a bit.

 


 

Total distance: 202.61 mi
Total climbing: 9064 ft
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Total distance: 121.69 mi
Total climbing: 8443 ft
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Total distance: 131.82 mi
Total climbing: 11036 ft
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Total distance: 207.82 mi
Total climbing: 16423 ft
Download file: 20120807.gpx

Bay Area

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Spent the day in the Bay Area mostly getting lost because navigating is really hard on a motorcycle.  Met up with Gibbons and the Sluts in Golden Gate Park for a moment to sit in the sun and eat bread with cheese.  There were a lot of people I wanted to see but just didn’t have time to do so.  🙁  I picked up a rain suit because it’s probably going to rain.  Only one photo was taken today; my giant dslr is not really the right camera for this kinda trip.  Here is a photo that I stole from Flickr that has something to do with San Francisco.

I took this one, which is a typical neighborhood in San Francisco.

Next stop, Lost Coast.  I hope we don’t run out of gas out there!

Total distance: 24.83 mi
Total climbing: 4697 ft
Download file: 20120806.gpx