Meet me in..... well you choose. 2007 ATW

[Stagbeetle]

Greetings all,
Next summer,2007, I plan to leave this careworn existance and go out where each day is a blank page, well almost blank anyway. I was going to go with my twin bro but HE, having fallen off during his CBT last week, has vowed never to mount a bike again. I said 'Well you didn't break anything, how come you didn't get back on and have another go.' His look of incredulity had to be seen to be believed, but just as well he did it in UK and didn't wait for Labrador!!

So now I am going solo, to the great distress of the older members of my family. At 60 I should be responsible for my own actions, don't you think? The youngsters are cool, they say 'I wish I could come.' So to appease the frightened ones, I've agreed to give some forward notice and not just rely on who turns up on the day.

So my itinery is - roughly -
Canada - July and August 2007
Halifax, Nova Scotia, - Newfoundland - Labrador, to Cartwight, ferry to Goose Bay, 1000km of dirt on the Labrador Highway through Labrador City, to Quebec, Great Lakes-Thunder Bay, trans Canadaian Hwy to Dawson City, 700km dirt on the Dempster Hwy to Inuvik(everyone goes to that oil facility called Prudow, but this is the real northern most town in America ) Back down to Dawson, (should be easier on the way back.) South through the Rockies on the Totem Pole Trail.

USA - Sept and Nov 2007.......
Continue through the Rockies to Dallas via the cowboy towns, a bit of Route 66, visit Strokers Motorcycles, Dallas and have a .

Winter time, who knows?
Mexico (learn Spanish on the Pacific coast for a month) to Panama, - Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, along with Chile and Argentina are also in there somewhere, but I hope to be seriously out on my timetable by then, 'cause if I'm on time then I have not been having fun and could have gone on a package tour.

Bike then goes NZ and Oz sometime in 2008 -April/May? Then I'll need to get home to see if I left the gas on, so I'll need to find the right road home. (Japan, Siberia, Mongolia, Russia, Finland, Scandinavia??) Who knows.

So if you fancy camping in the Canadian Wilderness with just bears, moose and lumberjacks for company, let me know, or say 'Hi' to me when we meet in Belgium in September.

'Happy trails to you.' - (Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, if you know all the words then you're as ancient as I am )

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Stagbeetle