Hi Everyone!
I volunteered to put together this blog for the August 1, 2016 trip to provide ideas and collaboration for planning the trip and to collect information from other travellers who have travelled the trail to help us from their experience - what to take - what not to take - what to tell your wife if you have a custom cast fitted along the way, etc.
I came across Nick Dillon's blog: transamtrail.blogspot.com, and have copied his chronicles here. Not only is it a fun read, it is helpful and informative. Nick made the trip on a 2008 KTM 400 without incident, at least until he began the process of shipping his bike home. You will just have to read the story...
There are several grades of technical riding along the way. Some of these degrees of difficulty can be exaggerated by weather conditions judging by the photos available ( I will post as many as I can find which are helpful) bigger is not better. The lighter the load, the easier the difficult sections are likely to be. (I thought I'd call Frank Stevens (Munoz) and ask if he still has his step-through Honda 50 with the straight pipe.
The equipment needs to be street legal because some of the journey crosses highways and there is frequently going to be the detour for gas & tequila and other essentials.
My son would like to come along and pilot a truck (at least part of the time) which can carry the camping equipment, spares, tools and food which should make the journey much more pleasant. Hopefully we can set up an auxiliary gas setup as well as long as we don't have to sacrifice too much beer space. Will is in the final 200 miles of the Appalachian Trail having already hiked 2100 miles so he can lend us some good advice on camping gear. He is also a trained EMT which is helpful if we have any drama.
PLEASE NOTE: Blogspot will not allow me to organize the chronology from oldest post to newest which means to start reading from the beginning, you need to go to the oldest archive at the bottom and work backwards. There is a workaround but it's going to take a lot of manual fiddling....
So leave a message, say hi, check in and comment to your heart's delight.
Update 7/16 - New Links to previous trips and some equipment links added.
Best,
Peter
I volunteered to put together this blog for the August 1, 2016 trip to provide ideas and collaboration for planning the trip and to collect information from other travellers who have travelled the trail to help us from their experience - what to take - what not to take - what to tell your wife if you have a custom cast fitted along the way, etc.
I came across Nick Dillon's blog: transamtrail.blogspot.com, and have copied his chronicles here. Not only is it a fun read, it is helpful and informative. Nick made the trip on a 2008 KTM 400 without incident, at least until he began the process of shipping his bike home. You will just have to read the story...
There are several grades of technical riding along the way. Some of these degrees of difficulty can be exaggerated by weather conditions judging by the photos available ( I will post as many as I can find which are helpful) bigger is not better. The lighter the load, the easier the difficult sections are likely to be. (I thought I'd call Frank Stevens (Munoz) and ask if he still has his step-through Honda 50 with the straight pipe.
The equipment needs to be street legal because some of the journey crosses highways and there is frequently going to be the detour for gas & tequila and other essentials.
My son would like to come along and pilot a truck (at least part of the time) which can carry the camping equipment, spares, tools and food which should make the journey much more pleasant. Hopefully we can set up an auxiliary gas setup as well as long as we don't have to sacrifice too much beer space. Will is in the final 200 miles of the Appalachian Trail having already hiked 2100 miles so he can lend us some good advice on camping gear. He is also a trained EMT which is helpful if we have any drama.
PLEASE NOTE: Blogspot will not allow me to organize the chronology from oldest post to newest which means to start reading from the beginning, you need to go to the oldest archive at the bottom and work backwards. There is a workaround but it's going to take a lot of manual fiddling....
So leave a message, say hi, check in and comment to your heart's delight.
Update 7/16 - New Links to previous trips and some equipment links added.
Best,
Peter
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