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June 25th, 2013 | Louisiana

And the Good News is…!!

With most motorcycle repair shops, including BMW in Baton Rouge being closed on Mondays, I was lucky enough to finally get in touch with Chuck House, a well known repairer of all things on two wheels.

I had tried to reach him on the evening that I arrived, but he was already closed for the […]

June 21st, 2013 | Louisiana

Update from New Orleans… (The Rewrite)

By reaching Mexico Beach the previous afternoon, we had cut our ride to New Orleans neatly in half, and today all we had to do to Reach the Crescent City, was a little over 550 kilometres…

Early morning, Mexico Beach, from our balcony. No time for a swim, we were N’awlins bound.

June 19th, 2013 | Florida

Mexico Beach…

We left Tampa behind us and headed for US 19, rather than follow the quicker Interstate 75.

I wanted to see more of the quieter side of the countryside, and despite Patricia’s misgivings that it was going to take too long to hug the coast all the way to New Orleans, in the end we […]

June 18th, 2013 | Florida

Key West to Tampa…

Before we left Key West, there was one last thing we still had to do…

The photo that confirms we’ve got to our third corner.

Normally, of course, I would have ridden up onto the sidewalk to take the photo, but there were already a small crowd of people gathered there, and a […]

June 14th, 2013 | Florida

To the Southernmost Point…

Yep, there’s one in Florida too…

We were on the road by 7.00 am, riding as hard as the traffic laws would allow, trying to get as much mileage under our belts before the sun got to “baking mode”…

I came very close to running out of fuel at one point and limped […]

June 12th, 2013 | Georgia

Ride to Darien…

No standard issue helmet for this lady !! She is my “American Girl” after all !!

We drove down to Jacksonville in Florida to collect our rental car and then spent the rest of the day packing up all our gear in preparation for an early departure the following day…

I decided not […]