Over the past few days, I have been doing the detailed planning of the tour route through the States of Utah, Arizona and California. They a...

It had been about a month since I attended the SOFER Rally and met Marjorie Rae from HOG where we had briefly discussed my intended tour. Si...

I spent yesterday planning the tour through Colorado. This sounds like it will be one of my favourite States. The mountains, passes and rive...

Having done a few long trips through Europe on my Harley-Davidson Road King Classic, I had learnt that not having locks on the standard leat...

The time I spent reflecting about the tour the previous day had also given me the time to think some more about if I wanted to do this tour ...

What is an Interstate? What is a highway? A turnpike? Is a freeway free? I was certainly confused by the different types of road in the US, ...

I spent a few hours today planning the detailed route for Utah. What a stunning State this will be! I did take time to reflect and take stoc...

I had a few days to spare, so it was back to the detailed route planning. So far I had planned two of the major parts of the tour (the Atlan...

This was the weekend of SOFER, the South of England Rally, a multi-chapter Harley Owners Group (HOG) event held at Bisley in Surrey. This wa...

My wife Jackie is American and each year we try to take a family holiday somewhere near Seattle in Washington State. Seattle is where most o...

From this point on for about 3 months, I periodically got out my State maps, books and spreadsheet and I worked my way through each State th...

I had decided back in April that I would need to do some detailed route planning to determine which roads I would use to go through each Sta...

Chris, the really helpful guy at Dynamic International proved to be a fountain of useful information and (especially) contacts. Without bein...

This turned out to be a really easy decision, based mainly on the cost of renting versus the cost of shipping my own bike to the USA. I used...

The 14th May saw the seven of us doing the tour of California gather at Heathrow for the long flight to San Francisco. Without writing a lon...

Back in November the previous year, I had agreed to join a bunch of guys (that I didn’t know) on a two week tour of California on rented mot...

Having now got an overall very rough route worked out, it was time to start the detailed planning stage for the tour. I had stuck pins into ...

For the next month or so, I talked to a few people about the potential of really doing the tour. Firstly and most importantly, my wife. Bein...

The beginning of 2009 saw a change in my own personal circumstances which meant I would have more free time. I was very lucky that my plans ...

The rest of 2008 was very busy for me. I spent a lot of time that year working in Moscow and we finished renovating a house in Spain that we...