Well, I'm planning another long distance trip on my motorcycle. This will be my eighth long distance trip on this particular motorcycle which I have owned 10 years and have put over 100,000 miles on over that time. I've done Virginia to Miami twice and five trips to America's West from Virginia. The furthest west I've been is Las Vegas. This time I'll going to San Diego to visit my son.  I'll leave Sunday August 6th and arrive in San Diego on Friday August 11th to spend the weekend in San Diego before heading back.

I've plotted a tentative itinerary. It's an aggressive schedule that plots out to be around 5800 miles in 14 days. The bulk of the travel will be getting out there and back. I consider getting 'out there' as getting to Denver, Co which is 1700 miles from Virginia. Getting there and back is 3400 miles which I'll do in 4 days. That leaves about 2400 miles to meander over a period of 10 days.

The way out roughly follows the old Midland Trail.The way back will partly follow some of old Route 66 the mother of all road trips.

This all sounds like a lot, which it is, but the point of not flying or driving a car is that I am riding a motorcycle which is the whole point. I'll be taking pictures which hopefully will keep things interesting for those who want to follow my adventure.