Pictures from Blue's Big Trip
British Airways were being a nightmare before we were due to fly: despite booking our Business Class flights many months earlier, a month before flying, BA emailed us to tell us they’d cancelled our flights from London Heathrow to San Francisco. When we’d been trying to fly out to Corralejo to move into our place […]
Well 10 years after doing my Route 66 trip on a Harley in August 2012 to celebrate being 50, I’m back with another plan for my 60th birthday (and to celebrate still being alive after my little incident in 2019): Pacific Coast Highway, North to South during summer 2022. We fly out business class to San […]
So then. Blogging, Facebook, e-mails, etc. Yes, we all like to keep in touch with family and friends when we’re away and I will be taking photos and attempting to update this blog as I go. Which all means lots of data. Now, on monthly basis – without really heavy photo uploads of large RAW […]
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 […]
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 […]