06 Ride to the Wall

Dates: 7/20/06 – 8/12/06

Stats

• Total Days: 43
• Total Miles = 6,904
• Gallons of Gas = 172.6
• Total States this trip = 26
• New States this trip = 14
• Total States = 30

Highlights

• Blue Iguana & Bohemians pool side, SLC
• Riding across the desert of UT
• Independence Pass, CO
• Broke and Busted in Wichita
• Riding the Ozarks
• H-man Drive, West Plains, MO
• Land Between the Lakes
• Cherohala Skyway
• Riding the Dragon
• Coronas on ice & tiki lights pool side in Easton
• Hanging out at Seaford HD, DE
• Touching the Wall
• Visiting d’Canon Club East
• The Great River Road in Wisconsin
• Bad Teachers RC in Sturgis

Lowlights

• Getting run off the road
• Broke and Busted in Wichita
• Exhausted in Tennessee

Tips

• Have at least one spare debit/credit card
• Know your road side service number
• Pack fewer clothes than you think you need
• Pack Cortaid and bug spray
• Pack Imodium
• Take a couple of atlases/sets of maps

Quotes

• “How’s it going, old timer?”
• “Do you work at the prison?”
• “People like you camp over there.”
• “You’ll be with me from now on.”
• “Cheeseboiger, cheeseboiger! No fry, cheeps! No Coke, Pepsi!”
• “Don’t leave him! There’s too many Indians!”