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From: pag00@amdahl.UUCP (Pria Graves)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: x-country travel
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 12:03:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 12:03:51 1985
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> Does anyone want to discuss the amt of time it can take to go
> from, say, Boston to Seattle and back? 
> 
> How does 10 days going, 10 days there, and 10 days back sound? 
> Too fast? What is the maximum non-burnout distance for one day 
> on a BMW R80/7? 400 miles?
>
Ten days each way should be nice.  It can be done in five and a half (S.F
Bay Area to Washington D.C.) but you don't get much time for stopping.
Again, the maximum number of miles in a day depends on your purpose.
A roomate of mine rode from Vale Colorado to home straight through (25 hrs)
but he was nuts.  My top days are around 650 miles on my R100S
and only when I am not sight seeing (mid-west or southern Idaho to
home).  200 - 500 is fine for sight seeing depending on the area and
your stamina.  You will find that you have much more endurance after
4 - 5 days on the road.  My wrists and rear end always get tired the
first few days (of course that's usually long days across Nevada
or Arizona.... hmmmm .... maybe it's attitude too!)

> Are there any special, must-see places along a more northerly
> route between here and there? For starters, I was thinking of
> passing through Toronto, and taking ferries to Chicago. From
> there either NW through Wisconsin, Minnesota, N.Dakota, Montana,
> and Idaho; or W through Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho,
> and Oregon.
>
I liked the Michigan penninsula and Wisconsin as well as Glacier park
in far northern Montana.  While I am glad to have seen Yellowstone,
next time I will go in winter:  the Winnabegos are the pits.
The Canadian rockies (at least the southern part) are also nice and
the roads west toward Vancouver are spectacular.  Just remember
if you go that way that you MUST remember to slow down again when
you get back to the States!

While you are in Seattle area, be sure to take a ferry out to some of the
islands to the west.  There are lovely small, deserted campgrounds on
many of them and the Olympic Penninsula is magnificent!

Enough of this rambling..... best of all just enjoy!

Pria
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