MNCAWA 2010

I just recently returned home from a 6,000 mile adventure on my Yamaha FZ6! Passed through 13 states in 13 days going from Twin Cities, Minnesota to Monterey, California to Seattle, Washington and back home.

I sped through the cornfields of Nebraska and Loveland Pass in Colorado, took the “Loneliest Road in America” (US Hwy 50) through hot Utah/Nevada desert, and encountered freezing rain in Sierra Nevada Mts. I crossed San Fran’s Golden Gate Bridge and promptly got lost on the 101, wound up in Napa Valley to tour a winery and ‘race’ a Corvette through the precarious twists and turns back to I-5. After rounding Deception Pass in Seattle and ferrying back to the mainland, I cruised through to the Rocky Mts of Montana to see the Blackfoot River and Missoula before swinging through Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and South Dakota’s Badlands (and yes, the famous Wall Drug!)

Amazing trip! I saw awesome scenery and crazy weather and friendly/interesting folks along the way. I bivouacked in near freezing weather, got kicked out of a truck stop, hammocked near mountainous streams, stealth camped in cattle pastures, surfed my siblings’ couches and floors, and visited relatives and friends along the way.

This trip has made me want to begin planning for a trip to the eastern coast next fall (2011). Any surfers interested in offering a couch en route from MN to Kentucky to North Carolina to New Hampshire and back through Michigan???