Tuesday, September 3, 2024
I left my job recently to take a much needed sabbatical and figure out what I’m doing next. A few weeks after my last day at work I embarked on what was to be a three week tour of NW-ish National Parks from Portland, to include Olympic, North Cascades, Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Craters of the Moon, Lassen Volcanic, and Crater Lake. I ended up missing Grand Tetons due to weather and I had to cut the trip short before I got to Lassen (family medical issue), so Lassen and Crater Lake remain unvisited. Trip Dates: Sept 3 - Sept 16 (13 days) Total Travel Miles: 3478 (does not include local miles for store runs, etc.) Total Gallons of Gas Used: 82 Equipment: 2021 Benelli TRK502X Gaia GPS & Google Maps running on Sonim XP8 rugged Android phone Butler Motorcycle Maps (paper maps of best M/C roads in the country) iPhone 14 (main camera) Akaso Brave 7 helmet-mounted adventure camera Spot X satellite communicator and tracker Wolfman Luggage WP waterproof tank bag and saddle bags (no longer available) Watershed Colorado dry bag duffel (across the pillion seat) Kriega US-5 Drypack (tail bag) Kriega 3L hydration backpack (strapped to duffel, not worn) Marmot Ajax 2 tent Nemo hydrophobic down sleeping bag (non-mummy) Helinox ultralight cot MSR WhisperLite International stove (Purchased in 1991 for my first moto trip: Detroit, MI to San Diego and back on an XT250) Gossamer Gear Bare Boxer bear-proof food canisters (two - one in each saddle bag)