A map of the route from home to Los Angeles then along Route 66 to Chicago. I then went north to Canada (I love visiting Canada) and took the Trans-Canada Highway back home. This trip was a slow ride across the United States to see the America that everybody bypasses when they drive the interstate. THEN I got the see the amazing countryside of Canada riding along the Trans-Canada Highway, a better ride than I expected to be honest. A total of 6,315 miles.
I have created a page with JUST the planning for the trip including all the very specific waypoints for navigation if you want to make the trip yourself:You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness.
