Category Archives: Motorcycle

Vasquez Rocks

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Total distance: 105.12 mi
Max elevation: 2720 ft
Total climbing: 7232 ft
Total time: 09:18:23
Download file: 20130111.gpx

 

Photos by Marcel M, stolen from Facebook.

Motorcycle trip; complete map.

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Here we go, all the .gpx files I collected along my motorcycle trip, on one big map.  Unfortunatly, this file is much to large (7.7 MB) for Google Maps to parse, so it’s represented as a static image.  I used the command line tool gpsbabel to merge 35+ tracks together.  Check out my blog post about this tool here. –> https://blog.benmook.com/185/

Download the final .gpx file here

Lost/ Random photos

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When I mailed my big ass DSLR back to LA, I forgot to take the photos off of the card!  Now that I’m back, here are those images.  Also included are images from my phone, and stuff from Facebook.

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

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Total distance: 268.9 mi
Max elevation: 2595 ft
Total climbing: 9335 ft
Total time: 21:05:12
Download file: endtrip.gpx

Total distance: 281.78 mi
Max elevation: 1738 ft
Total climbing: 4411 ft
Total time: 07:32:51
Download file: 20121018.gpx

Total distance: 101.56 mi
Max elevation: 3649 ft
Total climbing: 2061 ft
Total time: 03:56:40
Download file: 20121017.gpx

Total distance: 159.71 mi
Max elevation: 4981 ft
Total climbing: 5907 ft
Total time: 08:44:55
Download file: 20121016.gpx

Total distance: 271.75 mi
Max elevation: 8708 ft
Total climbing: 10264 ft
Total time: 09:03:31
Download file: 20121015.gpx

Total distance: 219.08 mi
Max elevation: 3007 ft
Total climbing: 9217 ft
Total time: 08:26:04
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
Max elevation: 571 ft
Total climbing: 4604 ft
Total time: 05:44:48
Download file: 20121005.gpx

Total distance: 267.7 mi
Max elevation: 172 ft
Total climbing: 2763 ft
Total time: 07:40:34
Download file: 20121004.gpx

Total distance: 157.36 mi
Max elevation: 166 ft
Total climbing: 2612 ft
Total time: 08:15:55
Download file: 20121002.gpx

Total distance: 129.66 mi
Max elevation: 153 ft
Total climbing: 2725 ft
Total time: 09:39:08
Download file: 20121001.gpx

Total distance: 399.95 mi
Max elevation: 549 ft
Total climbing: 2847 ft
Total time: 10:58:49
Download file: 20120930.gpx

Total distance: 148.27 mi
Max elevation: 151 ft
Total climbing: 760 ft
Total time: 03:32:14
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
Max elevation: 2070 ft
Total climbing: 3716 ft
Total time: 09:56:46
Download file: 20120825.gpx

Total distance: 154.53 mi
Max elevation: 1826 ft
Total climbing: 6861 ft
Total time: 11:33:00
Download file: 20120826.gpx

Total distance: 192.8 mi
Max elevation: 1520 ft
Total climbing: 11260 ft
Total time: 12:14:14
Download file: 20120827.gpx

Total distance: 148.81 mi
Max elevation: 939 ft
Total climbing: 5471 ft
Total time: 08:35:01
Download file: 20120828.gpx

Total distance: 19.34 mi
Max elevation: 824 ft
Total climbing: 1488 ft
Total time: 04:37:39
Download file: 20120830.gpx

Total distance: 33.9 mi
Max elevation: 794 ft
Total climbing: 801 ft
Total time: 01:29:14
Download file: 20120831.gpx

Total distance: 202.5 mi
Max elevation: 965 ft
Total climbing: 4782 ft
Total time: 08:05:34
Download file: 20120901.gpx

Total distance: 152.78 mi
Max elevation: 1955 ft
Total climbing: 12843 ft
Total time: 09:30:25
Download file: 20120902.gpx

Total distance: 181.46 mi
Max elevation: 2747 ft
Total climbing: 18181 ft
Total time: 10:25:40
Download file: 20120903.gpx

Total distance: 317.76 mi
Max elevation: 685 ft
Total climbing: 6171 ft
Total time: 09:18:03
Download file: 20120904.gpx

Total distance: 185.53 mi
Max elevation: 81 ft
Total climbing: 1290 ft
Total time: 07:16:37
Download file: 20120905.gpx

Total distance: 81.44 mi
Max elevation: 154 ft
Total climbing: 1782 ft
Total time: 10:51:13
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
Max elevation: 6915 ft
Total climbing: 4841 ft
Total time: 07:43:54
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
Max elevation: 6002 ft
Total climbing: 8633 ft
Total time: 06:09:35
Download file: 20120819.gpx

Total distance: 181.18 mi
Max elevation: 9583 ft
Total climbing: 14584 ft
Total time: 12:31:00
Download file: 20120820.gpx

Total distance: 449.54 mi
Max elevation: 8717 ft
Total climbing: 15671 ft
Total time: 10:16:10
Download file: 20120821.gpx

 

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
Max elevation: 3935 ft
Total climbing: 10271 ft
Total time: 07:44:35
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
Max elevation: 4193 ft
Total climbing: 14694 ft
Total time: 10:05:06
Download file: 20120818.gpx