Many of us Harley-Davidson riders in the UK have taken out a bike recovery insurance policy called HOG assistance. In the event of a breakdo...

One of the things I will have to think about on the tour is the different time zones across the USA. On the main (contiguous) States, there ...

When on the tour, I want to listen to the most relevant music that I can. Therefore I am putting together a list of my Top Road Trip Songs....

Being somewhat confusing for riders from outside of the USA, each State has its own helmet laws that say whether you must wear a helmet, you...

I forgot to mention something very useful that we used on our motorcycle trip to California – Pannier or Saddlebag liners. We purchased t...

Over the past few days, I have contacted a small number of friends to ask if they want to join me on part of the tour and a few have already...

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...