Almost Ready!

I leave on my ten-day motorcycle trip this Saturday. I think I have taken care of all the things that are going to trip me up - I have my passport and a Canada insurance card. I am really looking forward to this trip and hope to update this blog each day with highlights from the day's riding. The motorcycle gods are not being totally nice to me in terms of weather, but it should be OK. It has been sunny and warm here all week, but the weather changes to typical spring-time Pacific Northwest weather on, you guessed it, Saturday! As long as it isn't snowing I am going.

I have set up a trip on Spotwalla. For those of you not familiar with this free service, it captures GPS data from your compatible device (a Spot device in this case) and keeps a map up to date with your current location. I normally use the device to make sure Jeannette knows I am OK, but thought it might be interesting to be able to see where my trip takes me. The link below will take you to a real-time map of my location (transmitted every ten minutes). Save the link or click it each time - shouldn't matter. It won't start populating my map until my trip begins Saturday morning, though.

Link to my Spotwalla page.


I was really hoping my trip would be mostly like this...

But I will be pretty happy if I don't spend too much time waiting like this...