Motorcycle Ride to Nowhere

During the Labor Day Holiday, Brad took an awesome ride from Utah to New York.   He could not resist taking a ride over the Tail of the Dragon in Tennessee and North Carolina.   That is 318 curves in 11 miles or on this day it was 626 curves in 22 miles for Brad!!     Brad finished up at Deals Gap and rode south to Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas.   Brad must have gotten hungry for some good steak because he ended up staying at Sooner Legends in Norman, Oklahoma on the way back to Utah.   When Brad left Oklahoma he rode through Kansas passing the underpass where we took shelter from the hail and a tornado in May 2010.   This was when I had a flat tire near McPherson during our short ride in the 2010 tornado season. At the end of the NoWhereSummer Ride 2011 Brad had logged about 5,200 miles.   This includes the two trips leaning the 318 curves in the Tail of the Dragon.   AWESOME!!

Brad’s summer 2011 trip took him from Utah into Wyoming touring Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Chief Joseph Highway through Cody, Beartooth Pass, and then into Montana touring Kalispell, he took the Going to the Sun Highway through Glacier National Park.   Then into, Calgary, Banff National Park, just south of Jasper, Alberta, Canada and to the Ice Fields (glaciers).   He rode through a few more national parks in Canada back into Idaho and to Utah.   The whole trip took 8 days covering over 2,800 miles of awesomeness.   Here are a few more pictures.                                        

  Greetings family and friends,  I’ve had a great summer while assigned to Okinawa. I actually spent most of the summer in Australia and the Philippines. I did get short stops in Hawaii, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. I got the refrigerator magnets as souvenirs. I did not get to ride any motorcycles but I met some great people and saw some breathtaking sites along the way. Brad on the other hand got a few rides in during the summer. He took a ride to Glacier National Park in Canada. The pictures he took are absolutely breath taking. The mountain scenes, glacier, winding and turning roads all look inviting to a two wheeled thrill seeker. I hope one day to navigate the roads to Glacier National Park. Until then I will enjoy the photos that Brad took.