Hello from the Atlantic Ocean. Todate we have traveled over 4,600 miles, along the way we attended the "Honda Hoot" in Knoxville, TN their 15th Annual. We met up with Pat and Cheryl Barret and rode together on a beautiful ride doing the Cumberland Gap also we took a Riverboat ride for breakfast and the highlight of the closing ceremonies was an unbelievable concert by Wynonia Judd. The concert was worth the price of admission. On Sunday we said so long to Pat and Cheryl as they had to make their way back to WA State. We decided to spent our [View Full Entry]

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Cumberland Gap Ride Cumberland Gap (el. 1600 ft./488 m.) is a pass through the Cumberland Mountains region of the Appalachian Mountains, also known as the Cumberland Water Gap. We learned that this path was made more accessible for pioneer travel when Daniel Boone used 35 axmen to widen it. Due to his work, pioneers could use wagons to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. The Cumberland Gap Tunnel is a 4-lane twin-bore mountain tunnel that is 4,600 feet long, and it carries US-25E under Cumberland Gap between Tennessee and Kentucky, and it was completed in Octob [View Full Entry]

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We were doing great beautiful day awesome road. Highway 9 is fantastic. Doug do you see that black cloud over there? What about that big white cloud over there? Oh my look at that White cloud, it is rolling at the top like "Pipe Line" does in Hawaii. Do you think that will become a storm? We decided to gas up if it is a thunderstorm or ? we better have a full tank of gas. It is getting pretty dark and the two clouds seem to be getting close together. That is how tornadoes form. Doug says we can out [View Full Entry]

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Toas New Mexico is beautiful arrived a little late so motels were scarce what was available were way to costly. When you arrive in Taos from the West the first thing you see is these funny little things sticking out of the little dirt humps in the ground. There are numerous homes buried under the humps. Beautiful when you look at them from the front side, all windows sticking out of the groung. No motel so we head out of town up in the hills around 10,000 feet there is this cute little campground in the wooded area with a Conestoga [View Full Entry]

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Oh my, Oh My ..... ASPEN, CO This a so beautiful, last Wednesday they had 3 feet of snow and Independence Pass was closed. Today it was sunny and clear with no snow on the roads. It is so beautiful that we wanted to turn around and go back thru the pass just so we could see it going the other way. There is a Ghost Town towards the top of Independence Pass. Contintental Divide was over 12,000 feet the air was thin and the view was endless. [View Full Entry]

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Day 3 Stayed at a beautiful motel last night and had an awesome hot breakfast there before we headed South. We are un Utah mostly for the day thru Bingham City with lunch at Duchesnbe, Utah. 73 Degrees and sunny. Stayed off the freeway most of the day in the high desert country of Utah and Colorado. Saw this awesome "Devils Slide". Lonny you would love it it is long and would be fast to go down with a zip sled in the snow. One of the dams was so full that it was overflowing from the TOP of the spill [View Full Entry]

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Got a late start due to weather. We left around noon and headed South on I-5 in a light mist that soon disappeard as we headed into Oregon. First stop was Multnomah Falls as Doug had never been there. East of John Day Dam was a big beautiful DAHL sheep right along side the road and above him was a whole herd of them and about 200 feet down the Highway were two more and no camera. Of course it was in the trunk of the bike. First night was at a motel in Pendleton, Oregon, NO RAIN but chilly down [View Full Entry]

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SKIPPER Skipper is 4 years old he will be 5 in August. He has been going to this beautiful for "Cats Only" Pet Lodge in Olalla, WA for 4 summers. This is his home away from home. Rhonda is the owner of this Pet Lodge she is awesome with Skipper, she has the best understanding of cats, their likes, dislikes, wants and needs even "Skipper". Skipper is a excellent traveler, he has a travel carrier that he starts out in but once we are on the highway he comes out from under his blankets, stuffed teddy bear and unstuffed COW that [View Full Entry]

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Spring Snow April 2008 Oh my goodness, I awoke this morning to a white out it was snowing like a blizzard, but wait this is April SPRING, what is all this white stuff. We had about a little over 2 inches when I left at 10:00 am and it was still snowing. Got to I-5 Olympia and no snow. Less than 2 months before we leave for our cross country trip sure hope it gets warmer soon so we can get some riding time in and get our bums toughened up .... [View Full Entry]

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Spring can come at anytime, I am sitting here looking out onto our deck to the snow and ice storm that we have been having all day. We are being told to expect up to 2 inches of snow tonight. My goodness this is the middle of April. Well, it will be just a little under two months and we will be starting our trip to the East Coast on our beautiful 2006 GL1800 Gold Wing. Hopefully the weather will be fantastic and that we can stay away from the tornadoes. We will be leaving in the middle of the week [View Full Entry]

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