Coast to Coast on a rental

[jolyon_russ]

My first post on HU so here we go!

It's a bit of a long story, but I'll try and keep the pre-amble short.

I work for a company that have a head office in NYC, last November I got sent over for a week one of the guys in the office has a mad Can-Am Spyder, so I asked him if he knew of any rental places in NYC, so I could take something for a spin while I was over. All he could find was Harley places miles from Manhattan, where my hotel was, so I kinda gave up on the idea.

Then, out of nowhere I get an email from him saying there's this new place that's opened up that are renting BMW's, I had a good look at their website and in the specials section they offer 1-way rental from NYC to LA. This got me thinking.

I did a little googling and some simple sums, NYC to LA via Dallas is about 3000 miles. If you take 14 days that's about 210 miles per day. So I send a quick email to find out how much 14 days would cost and he comes back with $1500 off peak (Oct - Nov) on a R1200GS

Initially that seemed very reasonable and after some more googling it seems very good. It has a number of major advantages over buy/sell or shipping my own F800GS, mostly that I'm only going for 2 weeks riding max.

I guess my main question is, can it be done in 2 weeks?

Am I setting an unrealistic target?

My worry is I’ll spend the first week stopping every 5 mins to take photos then rush the last week to try and catch up, missing loads of cool stuff. I suppose America’s such a huge country you could spend your whole life driving around it and still find new interesting bits to see.

Your opinions and guidance is appreciated.


Jolyon