Zen & the Art of a 4,000 Mile Motorcycle Trip

"Red Ryder" 2018 Harley Road Glide Special

I've been focused on scuba dive trips over the past several years that have taken me to some pretty exotic locations, but feel that I've been neglecting my own back yard as of late.  I bought my latest Harley specifically to do some long distance rides, and since there's no time like the present, I'm off to see the USA - or at least some of the most interesting (to me) parts of it!

Road Trip 2019

I've done pretty much all of this road trip before, but not in modern times, not all in one trip, and not on a motorcycle.  Part of it - the coast and the desert SW - I did as a kid with my brother, sister, and parents in a 1960's VW van with no AC.  I clearly remember 100 degrees at 10pm in Needles, CA and dying for some relief from the heat.  Part of it I did a couple of decades later with my own kids - going down through Utah past Salt Lake City to Moab and Arches National Park.  And part of it on my first Harley back in the early nineties with my friend Matt on his BMW bike.  This will be a different experience, but will be good to see what still fits to my memories and see how things have changed.

Captain America and Billy circa 1990?

Plan is to go fast and long for the first two days to get down to southern Utah, then slow down and enjoy the beautiful southwest with stops in Moab, Taos, Santa Fe, the Grand Canyon, and Sedona before racing across the desert and hitting the California coast. 

2 weeks (+ or -), about 4k miles, and both a lot to take in and a lot of time lost inside my head.  Should be epic!