Update March 2023: The newest Adventure is the Winnebago Revel on a Mercedes Sprinter Chassis, set to travel the East Coast and a circumnavigation of the Lower 48.
Details are below under the heading of Ride #6.
This Site is about Multiple Road Adventures:
- Biking, pedal biking, specifically tadpole trike biking, on Route 66 (mostly) from Chicago to LA (actually to Santa Monica Pier), done over a two year period, 2015-16. The last part, NM to LA, was done on Motorbike #1.
- Motorbiking the 4 Corners of the United States: Then on Motorbike #2, I went 23,000 miles (47 states, 2 Provinces, 2 Territories) from home base of Tampa Bay to Key West FL, Madawaska Maine, Blaine Washington, and San Ysidro California, and back to Tampa Bay. This morphed into an 8 Corner ride of around-the-world miles as shown in Adventure 2 below. This was all done Memorial Day to Labor Day in 2017.
- Motorbiking a Great Loop of the Eastern Half of North America: Tampa Bay to Jackson MS, Natchez Trace, north through the ‘spine’ of IL to Chicago, over to and up the spine of MI, across the Mackinaw Bridge into CAN, over to Ottawa and Montreal, and down south back to Tampa Bay. This was about 5,000 miles and 21 days, going thru two ‘new’ states. This was done in 2019.
- Motorbiking a mini-Loop from Tampa Bay through GA, TN, KY to Columbus OH, and back. This was about 3,000 miles over 10 days.
- Motorbiking a mini-Loop from Tampa Bay to New Orleans, up the Mississippi River to Natchez and Vicksburg, riding portions of the Natchez Trace (again) and back home by way of Jackson, Hattiesburg, and Tallahasse including the scenic ride of FL route 20.
- Adventure Van Travel, travel / camping / 4WD adventures in a Winnebago “Revel” Adventure Van. Trips around the East Coast and then (again) circumnavigating the Lower 48.
You can click on the blue ‘hot links’ below to see the respective stories.
1. Route 66 Adventure
Route 66, now officially decommissioned, was a famous national highway, begun in the 1920s. It linked that great midwestern outpost of Chicago with the magical American Bali Hi, Los Angeles. Across it, countless thousands and millions migrated, some settling along the way, others becoming Californians, and still others returning and finding home again.
The original Route 66, known as “Historic 66” no longer exists except in small fragments here and there. It’s replacement, known as “Old 66,” exists in more places but it too has been mostly lost, replaced by various Interstate Highways.
My vehicle for the Route 66 Adventure is pictured below: on the left is my bike, a 2015 Catrike Model 559, aka “The Orange Flash.” On the right is a Trek, ridden by my riding companion, a friend dating back to our earliest high school days in the late 1950s; we’ve been friends ever since.
“The Plan”original plan was to do it all in 2015 perhaps with a break or two. However, work and physical limitations did not cooperate. So the trip was done in Five Legs (stages) extending over the biking seasons of 2015 and 2016.
The Route 66 Adventure is documented here:
2. 8 Corners U.S.A. Adventure
In 2017, the initial “Plan” was to complete a motorcycle ride known as “The Four Corners USA.” A Google Map view of the ‘slab ride’ (all Interstate highways where available) for such Four Corners is shown below: 9700 miles and 144 hours of travel at normal auto speed limits. 
The vehicle for this adventure is shown below: a Triumph Explorer 1200 XRT.
As discussed at the highlighted link below, the wonderful, capable Triumph inspired a much more ambitious ride than “Four Corners,” namely:
an 8 Corner, 23,ooo+ mile Adventure.
It begins here:
3. Great Loop Circumnav of Eastern U.S. (and CAN)
In 2019, the “Plan” was to use the limited time available to circumnavigate (very approximately) the Eastern ‘half’ of North America, defined by (approximately) the Mississippi and the Atlantic waters. This adventured covered 5,000 miles through 20 States and 2 CAN Provinces. The route included RI and DE, the 48th and 49th States that I have now motorbiked through.
An overview of this journey is below. The description with photos and videos begins here:
Ride #4 (No details yet posted)
There has been a smallish Adventure #4: in the early Fall of 2020, on my, ahem, new BMW F850 GS (“Barnabas”) I did a ca. 3000 mile ride from the Tampa area by various byways to Columbus OH and back. I will include some of that story soon. In the meanwhile there’s a new posting on what happened with my Triumph 1200 and how I. came to get the GS.
Ride #5 (No details yet posted)
Ride #6 2023: Winnebago Adventure Van, the “Revel” Model (Class B)
Upcoming are extended travel adventures including off road 4WD travel, and camping, in a Winnebago “Revel,” a Class B “Adventure Van.”
We made a very very major purchase of a new Winnebago Revel. We made this decision by carefully reviewing the reputation of Winnebago and of the dealer (Lazy Days), both very important considerations. We settled on the Class B “van” style of RV because of the flexibility of driving and even parking in many contexts, though not parking garages (because of height limitations). We chose the Winnebago over rival / alternatives because (1) the reputation of Winnebago, (2) it’s focus on “the voice of the customer” (a theme of Winnebago), (3) commitment to quality workmanship and fit, and (4) the Mercedes Benz “chassis”reputation and performance that gives the Revel its mobility and many electronic features, and strong safety record.
In the linked pages below, I have expanded on each of these considerations–Winnebago, Lazy Days, and Mercedes–in making our major purchase decision
Link below to the ‘How and Why Question’ of vehicle selection: