We were on the road at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, once again, and had a very long day of traveling. We had a big American breakfast at a diner in the middle of nowhere and then it was 7.5 hours of riding from Lincoln City to Arcata. Adding in all the breaks we took meant […]
Today started efficiently and relatively early as we were on the road at around 9:30 AM. After a late breakfast at Starbucks an hour later, we were back on the road and headed towards Oregon. We took the coastal route that took us through Astoria and was the more scenic option. We stopped at the […]
Today is the day that we packed our lives onto the bike and set out to begin on our long-anticipated adventure. The initial round of loading things on the bike didn’t work out so well because as soon as we started riding, Phil felt that the bike was too heavy with everything we loaded so […]
Since the rain had stopped, the trip to L.A. was just a little over 200km (2 hours), and I already had found another host in L.A. on couchsurfing.com, I decided to take the opportunity to visit San Diego first. First stop was in Barrio Logan, a colourful neighbourhood with a strong Mexican influence and history. Rafael […]
As I was checking out from the motel, I met two French guys in the parking lot who were going in the opposite direction. One of them was apparently living in the States (L.A. – I think) and had his own bike, a BMW. The other one was visiting for a couple of weeks around the region and […]
Note: working on my couch surfing/tent-space/cheap accommodation project, sphyn.com, has quite slowed down the blogging activity and I’ll try to resume by posting several blogs a week, but don’t take my word for it 😉 Still 14 days left until 8th of December – the date of my return to Vancouver. In order to speed up the writing, […]
After waking up rested from a good night of sleep, I proceeded to pack and load the stuff on the bike for the 34th time on my trip, did the usual check around the motel room to ensure I was not leaving a camera, my backup disk, or even a simple charging cable behind me; […]
After a good night of quiet and peaceful rest in the middle of nowhere, I woke up relatively early and started the usual morning activities when camping – put my multiple layers of clothing on, pack things up, unmount the tent, warm up and eat some oatmeal, load the bike, check to ensure I’m not leaving […]
Target of the day was Del Rio, TX – close to the border and trying to stay as south as possible to get nice weather. The trip was mostly uneventful and I decided to pass San Antonio, since the whole ride was close to 400km. I stopped at a Pizza Hut in Uvalde, , a little more […]
Looking for things to check out in Houston, I remembered the famous quote “Houston, we have a problem” and opted for paying a visit to the NASA Space Center located South East of the 2.2 million-inhabitant city. After a short trip on the highway through the Houston suburbs, I reached the NASA center around 10:30am, paid the […]
