My Motorcycle Travel Dreams

• Guatemala. We'd love to have as great a time as we had in Feburary 2023 riding about 1000 kilometers (600 miles) in Belize by motorcycle (& a visit to Tikal in Guatemala sans bikes). We would love to see more Mayan ruins and more beautiful places, and meet even more wonderful Guatemalans! We are seriously considering this for January 2024.
  
  
• Ecuador..
  
  
• Peru..
  
  
• Chili.
  
  
• Mainland Mexico, West Coast. In March 2020, just before the novel coronavirus became a global pandemic that shut down borders, we did an amazing tour of Baja, California (Mexico). It was amazing. We were reminded yet again of just how wonderful Mexico is. And how diverse. The memories of that trip got us through the pandemic. We think we might be able to manage a trip in 2023, along the West Coast of Mexico, to Culiacán or maybe even to Mazatlán. I have been making a list of towns that have been designated as Pueblo Magico - those that we saw in Baja were, absolutely, magical. Whether or not we do this motorcycle trip depends on the crime situation in the country and the pandemic, of course.
  
  
• Colorado. Our issue: it will take two days of hard riding to get there and two days of hard riding to get back. That's four days of fast, boring, long interstate driving - and my husband doesn't get much vacation (this being the USA and all).
  
  
• Oregon. Routes west of the Dalles, in Oregon, mapped by SoundRider. We won't be going to any rallies, but we will be enjoying the routes we learned about from attending the 2012 event. We think this would be just a few days, but worth it.
  
  
• Coast Cariboo in British Columbia, a 7-10 day trip, around 1140 miles (1835 km), half of which is on the coast. Start in Victoria (which I believe we have to reach via ferry), stop in Duncan to see First Nations carvings and other culture, and go North all the way across Vancouver Island to Port Hardy, then take a ferry to Bella Coola, and drive the "Freedom Highway" to Williams Lake. Although, I must admit, I'm quite scared of this, because the drive includes a steep, switch-backed section, locally known as "The Hill", that the British Columbia tourist office calls "exhilarating." It rises 5,000 feet/1,524 metres above sea level. This road is mostly paved, but there is also a well-maintained gravel section, suitable for all vehicles. I'd like to stretch the trip to two weeks and stop in little towns, ride horses at a guest ranch, and do lots of tours of places, like Telegraph Cove and Aboriginal sites.
  
  
• Saskatchewan (two weeks). We're not much for just ticking off boxes, but it would be interesting to go to one more Canadian province - I've been to four, and would love to add a fifth. I have been mapping various routes that dip into the province from Alberta. We would probably go to Jasper and Banff again - this time, to do more than just drive through.
  
  
• A real Alaska trip (four weeks), including Anchorage, Denali and Fairbanks - excluding anything North of Fairbanks because I don't really care to do it on a motorcycle.
  
  
• Dinosaur parks in Utah and Colorado. This would have to be 21 days, because of how long it would take just to get there.
  
  
• Kentucky. I know this trip is very unlikely, because I'd eat up any vacation time just freakin' getting there from Oregon, but it's a dream of mine. I want to ride over the Green River bridge in Spottsville. I want to ride over the twin bridges from Henderson to Evansville and back again. I want to ride some of the beautiful roads in the interior of my tribal homeland.
  
  
• South American Dream Trip: Instead of doing the countries separately, as I've noted earlier, I'd really like to fly into Buenos Aires, ride up to Uruguay for a week, then down through Argentina, to the Southern tip of the continent, then slowly up through Chile and Argentina, maybe a bit of Bolivia, up to Peru, and either from there back to the USA or go on to Ecuador and Columbia and then back to the USA. It's a six month trip. And it's the longest of shots, because: I'm getting older and I'm not sure I can physically do it, I won't go away from our dog for six months, money, and the legendarily horrible winds of Argentina. I HATE WIND. But Season 2 of Itchy Boots and season 3 of the Charlie & Ewan show, Long Way Up, have stars in my eyes... 
  
  
• New Zealand and Australia (two months). Why not? Same reasons as South America.
  

• Spain, Morocco and Portugal (each separately, two-three weeks each)
  
  
• Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (1 - 2 months)
  

A lot of dreams, I know. More than I can do in the next 20 years, I know. But if you don't make a plan to travel - if you don't approach it as something you really are going to do, if you, instead, wait for the time and money for it to happen somehow, it will never happen.

 
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