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Day 1: Seattle

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I finally fell asleep last night. I was up for @44 hours.

Tues night I dozed off for maybe 45 minutes and in the plane I dozed off for about 10. I was stupid tired by the time I went to sleep. I pushed it so I could go to sleep and wake up on pacific time. Hopefully it worked and I won't be jet lagged for the next few days.

Max and Molly are great hosts. Max picked me up at the airport and then we went to the Fish Market. Ate lunch and then headed to REI. I wasn't really thinking of doing the tourist thing at first so it was nice to actually see something.

Got my bear spray at REI and some camp fuel.

Then back to Max's to pack the bike. Max was nice he wanted to rag on me for some things that I had but just smiled. I did jettison a pair of gloves and a few other tidbits. At one point Max was going to give me a Givi box that was bigger then mine. I wasn't havi g it. I knew I had all this stuff on the bike before.

Well the bike is packed for now. I'm sure I will repack it a Bazillion times along the way.

Boy it feels good to sleep. Ill hit the Rd shortly and see how far I get today. I'm sure ill need to iron out some things while riding.

Hopefully I won't have to unpack everything at the border.


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Day 1 -- early. Best thing heard from an airport screener

Not sure why they call it getting at up at 2 a.m. I never really fell
asleep. Those that know me know I'm not a morning person.

So, the airport van drops me off early enough to deal with Security. I
have my netbook, and extra battery, my SPOT, my GPS, my Sat radio and
CB in my carry on. I have my helmet with me.

I pull everything out and put it in the bins like a good little boy.
Of course I forget my belt. *sigh*. Anyway, the xray guy is moving my
stuff back and forth. Eventually he looks at me and says "A motorcycle
helmet with comm gear. boy that make us nervous" I smiled and said,
I know, that's why I'm hear so early.

Older gentleman with his wife behind me got pulled aside and heavily
screened. I was expecting to get brought to a side room considering
my one way ticket and all the stuff I have with me. Not to mention if
you google my last name and match it to the G8 summit in Italy, a long
lost relative was a very bad girl a while ago.

Works for me. I will say that micro foldable duffle from REI so far
is tough as nails. I have way too much weight in it then should be.

Flight boards in 45 minutes, I got the EEEPC charging in the outlet
and pilfering off the free wifi at the airport. Next stop. Salt Lake
City and then hopefully SEA.

Max: So far everything looks to be on time.

BTW: no one is in more disbelief then me that I'm actually going
through with this.

Steve in Logan Airport.

Day -1: Alaska

So, the bike and stuff has made it to Seattle I have already pre
checked in to my flight that leaves at 6 am. tomorrow morning. I'm
stairing down at being awake for 40 hours if I can't get some shut eye
in between. I can't sleep on Planes and I'm working most of the day
today. There is probably no way I will get any sleep before having to
be awake at 2:30 this morning because the airport van picks me up at
3:15 a.m. to bring me to the Airport.

Day 1 Plan:
The plan so far when I land is to find the Giant Max (he claims he's
tall and you all know I'm not). From there, head to an REI to get
camp fuel and Bear Spray. Then find a place so I can get an air horn.

Then it's pack the bike and hang out. Originally I was thinking of
hitting the road, but I'm going to be in no shape to hit the road that
afternoon, plus might as well hang out in a dry warm place for a
night.

Day 2 plan : Hit the road plan.

I'm going to head north out of seattle on the I5 and cross the border.
Follow 99 through Vancouver which looks to turn into Surface streets
in the city. Then head north on 99 through Whistler. Then connect to
97 North heading for Williams Lake. If I'm tired or something I'm
stopping there. If not push on to Quesnel. If I'm feeling super good
maybe up to Prince George, but I doubt that very much.

Steve .. t - 15 hours until I get in the airport van

Bike has arrived in Seattle

The bike has arrived safe and sound in Seattle. Only thing left to ship out there is me.

The bike -- Shipped

The Truck came today to pick up the bike. I took a bunch of pictures of it. This shows most of the accessories I've done to it.  Some changes since the last pictures.

Rear of Bike with tool tube and bottle holders

New Heidenau K60 tires

Givi Windshield with Madstad bracket and Strombone Ram mount



Cockpit



Stebel horn, highway pegs, Fenda Extenda and Amotostuff bash plate





Twisted Throttle Bottle holder on Happy-Trail box



4 inch ABS tool tube







Richland Rick mirror extender with RAM mount, Rostra Cruise control controller (Zip tie wasn't necessary put it on for the trip) OEM Grip Heaters and bar switch for HID's



StromBone bracket





Hella Micro DE Fog light with HID conversion.



Fenda Extenda

Tires have arrived

In the 11th hour (well 21st really) the tires arrived. Mounted and balanced them tonight and the truck is coming for the bike tomorrow afternoon. I'm out of time to do anything to the bike, not that I could think of anything else to do to it.

Once the bike goes, I'll start shipping the other stuff out.