Pic Heavy Ride Report - MS to Bella Coola & Back 11,000 Miles Heat, Hail & Bears

[desertclassic]

Been trying to keep up with you and Mary. I have enjoyed the trip. I live in Las Cruces, NM and missed you as you were heading out. I have spent a lot of time in Taos. Northern NM is full of good riding. Be safe as you wind down the trip. Next time you are thru NM, we will do a link up. Jim

[DK Custom Products]

Been trying to keep up with you and Mary. I have enjoyed the trip. I live in Las Cruces, NM and missed you as you were heading out. I have spent a lot of time in Taos. Northern NM is full of good riding. Be safe as you wind down the trip. Next time you are thru NM, we will do a link up. Jim

Glad you are enjoying...yes, some great riding in NM. Definitely would like to meet up next time we are out that way.

Kevin

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What were the dates of your travel ? You should post a MAP that shows your entire route.

Will try and get that together and post it up soon.

Kevin

[DK Custom Products]

Day 35- heading home to Red Banks, MS



Setting up the video camera, at the Super 8 in Van Buren, before hitting the road.









Mary's stash...plus my breakfast.









Mary in the mirror as we're rolling down the 40.








For the first 150 miles or so we did not have much traffic, and the surface on the 40 in Arkansas is MUCH better that it has been in previous years.









As we get closer to Little Rock, traffic increases some...









...Arkansas used to be a great State to travel in. *They used to strictly enforce the 70 mph speed limit & they have/had a law, that was strictly enforced, that the left lane could only be used for passing...










...because these laws were enforced, most of the drivers on the road would follow it, and it was very rare to get jammed up going 55 or 60 in a 70 mph zone, or get tail-gated if you were doing the speed limit...








...not anymore. Don't know where the LEO's are, and why they are not enforcing them, but it is a free for all now and we got stuck behind folks more times than I can count.








That looks like a fun ride!







More in next post.

[DK Custom Products]

Day 35 continued.




That's an interesting load!









One of my least favorite places to be...and I had one behind me, and another one tail-gating the Longistics truck.










Crossing the Mississippi River, leaving Arkansas for Tennessee.










We were in Tennessee for about 20 minutes...









...before crossing into Mississippi! 5 minutes after being in Mississippi...









...we got off the interstate and took back roads the rest of the way home.









Almost home!









11,500 miles later, we are back in our driveway.








After getting the TG unpacked. I tucked it into the shed. Will be doing a well deserved fluid change before riding it again.






It was a great trip, packed with memories, met some great folks, and it will take some time to digest everything we saw.

I am going to try and make a map, showing the roads traveled, by day.

We were gone 50 days. This trip we spent a lot more time visiting family and friends than on previous trips. Out of the 50 days we have only traveled 35 of them (plus one full day riding around GJ with Fuzzy, and a half of a day with Trent & Barbara in Idaho).

Our mileage traveled is 11,543 miles...about an average of 320 miles per day. Some days were 500 miles or more. Other days, more sight seeing, were less than 200.

It's been a blast! Thank you all for riding along with us.

Kevin

[kybigmac]

Not ready for this thread to end, so after a short nap get back on the road !

[consitter]

Thanks for taking us along for the ride!! It's been very enjoyable. Can't wait for the next trip.

[Whopper Stopper]

Any idea when and where we are going next?

This has been a true highlight following along on your trip. I can't imagine the time you spent sorting and posting pictures let alone the daily written journal. You and Mary deserve a big hand for all the enjoyment you so willingly shared


WS

[Gorilla]

Thank you Kevin and Mary. As stated the trip was memorable for all of us getting all the pictures. Now rest and get back to work.

[olddawg]

Enjoyed every mile Thanks great trip

[Amputee55]

Enjoyed every mile Thanks great trip

I think you would make a great wing man.

when is your next trip ?

Sign me up.

[Zammy]

Many thanks to both of you for a very enjoyable trip, it really felt like we were riding along.

[desertclassic]

Glad you and Mary are home safely. What a trip. It was like watching a good movie, knowing it would end. Waiting now for the release of the next movie. Jim

[nova]

absolutely enjoyed YOUR trip lol. I will probably look at it again. Hopefully i will have my own trike by the first of the year....spend some time making sure i can ride it lol, and then i hope to get some trips under my wheels. it will be after i retire before i could take 50 days and just ride like you guys did, but that just gives me something to dream about as i spend this part of my life working spreadsheets....

i wish you and Mary many more fabulous miles and i hope you document them right here on the site.

[55il]

Thanks so much for the photos, editorials and sharing your fantastic trip with us. DJ

[DK Custom Products]

Sorry for being absent from this thread for the last 10 days. It was quite a load off my mind when I finally got done posting up everything out of my ride journal and going thru the 18,000+ pictures Mary took!

I just needed a break. lol

No doubt, I would like to be back on the road...I could live on the road, but Mary likes her nest, and, while I can do a great deal of my work from the road, I can't do all of it.

After the first of the year we will start thinking about what 2016 holds!

Thank you so very much for all the encouraging comments.

It was a fantastic trip and we're glad you enjoyed riding along!

If you have not read our other Ride Reports, here is one where we went to the Arctic Circle and back-

http://www.triketalk.com/forum/threa...Back-Pic-Heavy

Here is a Ride Report of our Fall Colors Trip-

http://www.triketalk.com/forum/threa...2014-Pic-Heavy

Kevin

[nucseal]

Hi Kevin,

Probably asking a lot; is there anyway you can post up the route you took on this ride? This w. as definitely some beautiful country that you rode through.

Regards
Nuc

[DK Custom Products]

Hi Kevin,

Probably asking a lot; is there anyway you can post up the route you took on this ride? This w. as definitely some beautiful country that you rode through.

Regards
Nuc

In another week or two I am going to try and get a coherent map of our travels reduced to a few jpgs and post them up.

Kevin

[nucseal]

Thank you

Nuc

[DK Custom Products]

Below are 7 maps, showing the route we took over the first 26 days of travel.






























































Kevin

[55il]

Kevin, I read each of the maps just as I did you journal earlier. What a fantastic trip, I hope to be on a few of the roads you and Mary were on next year.

Again, thanks for all your hard work putting all of this together for us to enjoy. DJ