As I continue to do my route planning, and research of exactly where and what I want to see, I continue to discover points of interest that jump out at me.

My route has evolved from what seemed like simple jaunts between major points of interest, usually little towns along the way, to even more little points of interest of natural and man made wonders.

I sat down one night, and first tried to define what I wanted out of this trip, and where I wanted to go. I do not...

...is in the pudding. That's how the saying gos, right?

I just posted (really late, mind you) my mileage numbers for October. Pathetic.

I put a whopping 278 miles on the bike and 11 miles on the truck. Yep, it truly is the end of Riding Season for me.

Perhaps it's time to take the seat off and start planning for its recovery.

I didn't get much done tonight..
combination of 4 hours sleep.. 2 hours at the gym, pushing the weights to hard, full day of work..kids gone wild.. I lack the mental capacity to do anything useful

So I did something useless. I started out just trying to clean up the surface rust on the axle bolt so the spacers would slide on without the use of a hammer. I ended up polishing the axle bolt and spacers to a nice shine....
Really it's all I can handle tonight...

The Pacific Northwest is in my opinion, one of the greatest area’s of land mass in the world. Very few area’s in the world compare to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, nor do they offer the diversity, nor environments that the Pacific Northwest does.

No matter where you live here, no matter where you go. There is always something magical near by.

Whether it be the Olympic Rain Forest of Western Washington, the Crater Lake of South Central Oregon, or the massive Hell’s...

Just when I thought I was getting some where it looks like I'm going backwards.. But it's a good thing..

Most of the parts are in except the seat cover.

The Tires are in at the shop so I pulled both wheels off last night. Forks are also coming out for new seals.

I started putting the new bars on.. I have most of it figured out but it's going to take re-routing the the throttle cable and brake line.

Rear sets are on.. They are built for...

The dehydrator came in yesterday, which makes me very happy. I wanted to start making stuff right away with it, so what better foods to start off with than fruit and jerky?

Simple enough, so my roommate and I headed to the grocery store for a roast. We first hit up Fred Meyer.

No cheap roasts. Damn

So we head to Safeway.

Again, no luck. They had a couple bottom rounds, but at nearly 4 bucks a pound, I wasn’t going to even think of making...

In my continuing research for my trip planning I have focused on shelter. Now, I am by no means even slightly educated when it comes to tents. Anything camping really. So my research, criteria, and decisions were based on talking with more knowledgeable friends, taking note of their criteria, then picking out the most important features that appealed to me.

Shelter, along with food and water, is an important aspect of survival, so I figured I better spend some time researching tents....

There are so many thing that one needs to do a successful trip on 2 wheels. The most needed among those things, is well, the 2 wheels that will carry you, then everything else can be debated.

I’ve been spending a large amount of my free time with research. Research of pretty much everything one will need for an extended trip.

Being that this is my first true “Adventure” ride that I will take part in, I need a lot of supplies. And with needing supplies comes the age...

Once again I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what the hell the PO was thinking (or smoking)

What started this was the box sitting where the voltage regulator belongs. It's a CDI from a 1980 GS850 and it's wired into the bike somehow.. going over the wiring diagram shows the coil outputs are hooked up to ?? The wires run off into a ball of tape.. the pickup lead is just taped off and left hanging.. I can't see how the hell this thing is doing anything.
Voltage regulator...

Decisions Decisions Decisions. It has all come down to Decisions. The bike is up on its own wheels, carb is in place, exhaust is in place, and the wire harness is somewhat in place. All the pieces needed to start her up, and I just let it set. More time spent thinking, planning, measuring than actual work took place in this update, so it is short, simple, full of babble and a couple pictures to compliment it.

"Any man who believes he controls the machine is in a state of...