Jayne on her KLR
Motorcycle Travel in 2018
Great Basin National Park, Rachel, Nevada, Cathedral Gorge, Steens Mountain, Mount Hebo & More
 
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It was a great year! In addition to lots of day trips, we went to Great Basin National Park, Rachel Nevada, Cathedral Gorge, Steens Mountain and so much more as a part of our big 2018 motorcycle travel trip. We spent 13 days, going over 2657 miles / 4276 kilometers. We had our first flats on a trip - two in 48 hours - that couldn't be fixed by Fix-a-Flat, so Stefan did our first road-side innertube changes ever. And all in all? It was a terrific trip! But very smokey... so many fires...  

In the Spring, we road up to Mount Hebo via Siuslaw National Forest Service Road 14 for the first time- it's a challenging motorcycle ride on gravel and fun day trip near Portland in Oregon. We did it again a few months later. 

In addition, this year has had a focus on preparing for a trip through Baja, California, Mexico, in early 2020.

Also in 2018, I've worked very hard on improving my riding. I want to not only get back COMPLETELY to where I was before our Utah trip in 2014, but I want to get past that and be an even better rider than ever. So, at long last, I took an off-road motorcycle course in Washington state in April. I also practiced to get my turnarounds MUCH tighter and to be comfortable standing on the motorcycle when riding on gravel.

As usual, I'm maintaining and building my skills by regular day trips, including:
As of November 15, 2018, I have ridden more than 28,000 miles / 45,000 km on my KLR (Kawasaki) since I got it in 2010, with 95% of that being for fun (rather than commuting somewhere). And I've ridden almost 40,000 miles / more than 63,0000 km overall on motorcycles (my previous bike was a Honda Nighthawk).

But what's even more fun to think about is not the number of miles or kilometers, but the things I've seen. And that's why I write travelogues. Here they are so far:

Since then:

In 2017, we traveled for 10 days in Washington State on a Smokey Motorcycle Adventure in August. Yes, it was ridiculously hot. But it was still a terrific trip.

In 2016, we went to the exotic land of Idaho. Included at least 120 miles of gravel. Hells Canyon, Silver City, Idaho, Bruneau Dunes State Park, City of Rocks National Reserve, Sawtooth Scenic Byway, Salmon River Scenic Byway, Custer, Idaho, Ft. Missoula, Montana, historic Wallace, Idaho, Lake Coeur d'Alene, White Pine Scenic Byway, Hell's Canyon Overlook, Oregon, Joseph, Painted Hills, and Little Crater Lake in Mt. Hood National Forest. It has been one of our favorite trips to date - nothing in North America has been more beautiful and interesting as this trip.

In 2015, our motorcycle trips included two weeks mostly in British Columbia, but including Hydar, Alaska (Stewart-Cassiar Highway and the Alaska Highway). We went all the way up to the Yukon and back. Lots of bears, which was awesome. The wind almost ruined the trip at the end.

For our Motorcycle Travel & Rally Activities for 2014, we went to Moab, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Goblin Valley, Farewell Bend Oregon State Park, Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, and Camping in a cow pasture in the deserts of Nevada. And I had my first motorcycle wreck!

Our Motorcycle Travel & Rally Activities in 2013 (a sad year when we bought a house instead of doing a two-week trip)

Our Motorcycle Travel & Rally Activities in 2012, including camping in Antelope amid the ghosts of the Rajneesh colony, seeing the Alvord Desert for the first time, amd a big Motorcycle Journey in Northern California, Nevada & Southeastern Oregon.

In 2011, we went to Yellowstone, Western Montana, Wyoming & more in June 2011. 15 days, 2680 miles. The trip ended at the legendary Burning Moto Man 2011, in Westfir, Oregon. We also spent one week in Washington state, September 2011 to celebrate my husband's 40th birthday, visiting Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Ape Cave, ice cave and lava tubes, Gifford Pinchot National Forest and a bit of Mt. Hood.

Our Motorcycle Travel & Rally Activities in 2010, my first long-distance motorcycle trips! Acutally, we took two! One to the "Lost Coast" of California, and another to Canada (Alberta and British Columbia, Jasper, Banff & Kootenay National Parks) and Glacier National Park.

Before I started riding my own bike, and before we moved to the USA, I went on a few trips on the back of my soon-to-be husband's bike.

Also see this list of all my motorcycle travel dreams, big and small, as well as this list of my favorite local scenic routes near the greater PDX metro (Portland, Oregon)

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My current motorcycle:  A 2008 KLR 650 (Kawasaki)

My former motorcycle:   A 1982 Honda Nighthawk 650

Number of US & Canadian states I've been to on a motorcycle of my own:  7

Number of countries I've toured on a motorcycle of my own:  2

Number of countries I've toured on the back of a motorcycle:  17

Trips riding my own motorcycle
California ("Lost Coast" and gold country), Idaho, Montana (Glacier NP), Nevada, Oregon, Washington (state), Wyoming (Yellowstone), Canada (Alberta and British Columbia, Jasper, Banff & Kootenay).

International trips by motorcycle
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Northern England & Scotland, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden

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