Motorcycle Trips and Pictures

For a sucessfull trip the most important part is to prepare for the trip in advance of the trip.

While listening to the radio I heard a Invisibilia podcast on Norwegian 'Slow TV'. The podcast inspired me to create some Slow TV motorcycle rides:

Riding around Moscow Idaho and Elk City about 9+ hours May of 2021, this map shows the route.
Riding Highway 101 (Part 1) down the west coast, classic ride May 2020 and October 2021 (two rides spliced together), 12 hours (YouTube's maximum length). This map shows the route.
Riding Highway 101 (Part 2) up the west coast, classic ride October 7th and 8th, 2021 about 8 hours. This map shows the route.
Riding from Spokane, through Palouse and over the pass about 5 hours May 8th of 2022, this map shows the route.

This is a list of the trips I have taken on my motorcycle ordered by date. Each trip includes a map of the route, a page for each day that shows the ride that day, the altitudes and pictures from that day. Altitudes are useful for predicting what the temperature might be and making adjustments if you have issues with altitudes. The dates are useful as a refernce to weather conditions I experienced:

Various trips riding through the Cascade Passes in Washington State. Started in 2015
Vacation (meandering) to Moab Utah starting May 30, 2019 through June 14th, 2019.
Trip around Vashon Island on August 25, 2019. Beautiful day for a ride.
A long ride around the Olympic Peninsula to Oregon and back home from May 13, 2020 to May 16. Some rain, some shine.
A ride to Priest Lake in Idaho and back home from June 20, 2020 to June 24. A little rain, mostly shine.
Ride to the closest In-N-Out Burger in Keizer OR and back home July 3 2020. Just because.
Trip to attend the 80th annual Sturgis Rally August 04, 2020 Thru August 13, 2020 to Sturgis South Dakota and riding the Black Hills then back via Yellowstone and Craters Of The Moon
Trip from April 28, 2021 Thru May 01, 2021 to Bend, Oregon and riding the hills and amongst the mountains
Trip from May 11, 2021 Thru May 14, 2021 to Moscow, Idaho and riding the amazing roads in the area
Trip from October 2, 2021 Thru October 8, 2021 down West Coast Highway 101 to the Redwood Forest / Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Highway 101 is a classic ride, beautiful and of course the Rewood Forest trees are amazing.
Trip May 8, 2022 from Spokane, WA down Palouse Scenic Byway and Snoqualmie Pass.
Trip June 10, 2022 to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park and back home.
Two part trip April 22nd, 23rd 2022 and Sept 5 thru Sept 10 2022 riding the Columbia River and Selkirk Scenic loop and back home.
Trip October 19, 2022 to Mt Rainier, Paradise Visitor Center and back home.
Trip June 3-4, 2023 to Orcas Island and back home.
Trip July 9-13 2023 riding down to John Day Fossil Beds, with the painted hills, and Hells Canyon, North Americas deepest Gorge and back home.
Trip August 6, 2023 on Mountain Loop Highway on the southern part of the road and back.

When I visit national parks I buy a metal National Park Pin to put on my jacket on the collar and down the sleeves. Because the backing on the pin doesn't secure the pin I have a bag of Locking Pin Backs to secure them to my jacket, I *STRONGLY* suggest the locking backs that come with a wrench, but be careful, too much tightning and you might pull off the pin on the back. After attaching I have had a couple of pins break off from the front. I was able to epoxy them back together with JB Weld, that fix is holding so far:

The trips I have taken and plan to document on this page, ordered in places visited, a timeline reminder :-)
Blood donation pins (I believe in supporting fellow bikers in case the worst happens), Yellowstone (the wording has rubbed off) and Yellowstone

Rocky mountain National Park, Grand Tetons, Lolo Pass, Olympic National Park

John Day Fossil Beds, Malheur, Great Basin, Capitol Reef

Zion National Park, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park Utah

Black Hills Rally - Sturgis 2020, Smokey The Bear, Mount Rushmore, American Flag, Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Elk Peak - Custer State Park South Dakota

Badlands National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, Craters Of the Moon National Monument, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest - On the jacket going down the lapel

North Cascades National Park, Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Redwood National Park

Multnomah Falls Oregon, Mt Rainier Washington, Salton Sea California, Big Morongo California

Joshua Tree California, Moran State Park Orcas Island Washington, Hells Canyon / Snake River Oregon, Bluehat Security conference (... Ummm Because I do the Cybers ...)

Harley Davidson 120 anniversary pin Las Vegas

Coconino National Forest, Montezuma Castle (Ancient Native American abodes), North Rim Grand Canyon, South Rim Grand Canyon

All of my scripts for Motorcycle and Hiking trips. GitHub:
GandalfDDI Github

The maps were created by the PowerShell script
Convert_gpx_to_Google_Plot_V1.X.ps1

The script spits out a daily .csv file (instructions for plotting in Google are in the script). To get a plot of the entire path you just copy / paste all the days together into ONE file ... BUT ... if you have more than 2,000 points (which is easy to do for more than one day) then Google won't plot, so run the following script and it will chop out enough intermediate points to make the number of points = or less than 2000:
Convert_gpx_to_2000_points_V1.X.ps1

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