Blue's Big Trip

This is the route I’ll be following:

Well despite a few issues with making international payments, I’m now definitely booked with Bikers American Dream to hit Route 66. Flights are now confirmed and the agenda looks great. Let the countdown begin!

Sadly, Global Enduro had to cancel the Sturgis trip as a group had had to cancel. Thankfully, there was another authorised trip on Harley Davidson’s website: Route 66 Westbound – 2400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles with more or less the same dates, so definitely do-able. This was on my bucket list and whilst […]

So then: a change of plan. The cost of shipping Blue Rex to and from the States was working out to be too expensive and too complicated to arrange. Then a friend of mine announced he’d bought himself a Harley Davidson Street Bob. As I didn’t know which model that was, I went over to […]

  As something of a dry run for the US trip, three friends and I planned a week’s holiday to play in the Gorges de l’Ardèche in France. Sadly, Purge had to cancel a few weeks before the trip for family reasons so that just left Matt, Yox and me. The trip started early – […]

Welcome to Blue’s Big Trip: it’s a blog set up for my trip across the USA in the summer of 2012. I intend to take my 2002 Kawasaki ZRX1200R from the UK by airfreight to Anchorage, Alaska and then from there ride down via Seattle – where I have family – to Los Angeles and […]