The day we left Las Vegas was probably one of the most interesting days we have experienced on our adventure, and not for good reasons. When we went up to the Hoover Dam it was hot, around 36°, and off in the distance we could see storm clouds. Our destination for the day was a resort near LA, so our planned route was down the I15 to the Mojave National Preserve (Desert), then down towards Joshua Tree National Park. That was the plan but nature had other ideas. ...

After cooking in Death Valley we headed into Nevada, we were heading to Las Vegas via the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, it had been closed when we came by earlier in the year. To get to the North Rim we decided to head across Nevada into Utah and then down into Arizona, to do this meant we had to head north first to get around the top of Nellis Air Force Range, home of the infamous Area 51. We didn't know this at the time, they don't print that information on th...

From San Francisco we were advised to follow Hwy 1 down the coast, so we did as far as San Gregorio where we turned inland to visit Big Basin State Park where there is another Redwood forest. The road in was like the Tail Of The Dragon, only longer, Julie was kind of over it by the time we rode into yet another majestic forest of Redwoods, just love riding through these places, and they are so much cooler too. By the time we hit Boulder Creek we were looking for ...

This blog is back dated to when we were in San Francisco and California has taken up so much of our time I will write several blogs on the state, rather than one big one. We entred California in the North West corner through a redwood forest called Jedediah Smith Redwood NP. It was our first encounter with the Redwoods. We were coming down Hwy 199 and while it was nice, it wasn't what we had expected, but as luck would have it, we turned off the Hwy and found ou...

We re-entred the US in Montana, we had wanted to ride the Going To The Sun Hwy through Glacier NP. With all the smoke we had been through in BC (The smoke it turned out was from bush fires in Alberta, Washington and Oregon) we were worried that the stunning views we had been told about would be obscured, and they were. What we could see was brilliant, we could only imagine what it would be like in clear weather, and the road was awesome, apart from all the traffi...