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Cost to Coast ... to Coast on 1977 GS750 and GS550

Been in Denver staying with some friends for the past two nights. It's a pretty cool city but today we're heading off into the mountains.
We took highway 24 and 36 across Kansas and it was awesome! Did it in two days and camped halfway. The last hour or so of the first when it cooled down a little was some of my favorite riding so far:


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Our buddy from Kansas City joined us for a few days but is heading back after tomorrow he has a pretty cool evo chopper he let me ride it was pretty fun

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Sounds like you guys are cruising right along and having fun. Have you met any interesting people along the way? (Besides your friends in Denver haha)
 
We stopped by the St Francis motorcycle museum on suggestion of a guy at a gas station - it was closed when we got there but try let us I. When they saw us looking in the window. Mostly early 1900s stuff which was really cool to see, some Honda stuff from the 70's one Suzuki but no gs.
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Broke down in mancos co and spent a couple days here. We met a guy who runs a bmw moto shop and let us work out if it. Pretty cool town to be stuck in. Here's camp last night

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Should be be back on the road by the afternoon then we're heading to moab
 
Is there anybody in southern Utah, southern ca or Grand Canyon area that we could get a pair of condensers shipped to and pick them up from?
 
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Well we've been back on the road for a few days now, not sure if people are still interested in the thread but we hit canyonlands and arches parks in Moab, the Grand Canyon and are at Zion national park right now. Just over 4000 miles so far. We are riding to Yosemite next through Nevada about 500 miles which I am a little nervous about because of the heat and the isolation but that's kind of how is been for the last couple days in az. I lost a roll of film with some pretty awesome shots due to my lack of knowledge about cameras which I'm a little upset about it had some good pictures of the gs. Everything we've seen has been really amazing and I'll have loads of pictures to share after we get back ... In a month. Camping for the past almost 3 weeks has been good but I would welcome a couple days of rest...
 

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In the extra terrestrial highway in nv now. We saw a sign that said 150 miles till next gas so had to double back 5 miles to fill up. We stopped in Rachel at the Aleinn as it was getting dark and ended up camping out in the parking lot after the owner told us it would probably e dangerous to ride in the open cattle fields at image.jpg ight. We're about 15 miles from Area 51 and heard 2 really loud booms as we were waking up- no aliens though. 110 miles until next gas fingers crossed.
 
When I have space to bring one, I always feel better with a spare jerry can travelling some of the more desolate areas...especially when travelling solo.

how is your body holding up?
 
Sounds like a great trip so far. You pass through Zion huh, my son's heading up there in a couple of days.

That highway sign is real blurry, btw.

Have a safe and fun trip!
 
We're out of Zion and jut arrived at our friends in Oakland. We had to take the interstate to get here and realized that from ashville to the Grand Canyon we only we're on TWO interstates for no more than 100 miles and how little fun they are. We'll be in the Bay Area until Monday or Tuesday and then are making our way up to Portland via the pacific highway where we ordered two rear tires to replace ours which are pretty flat. Three weeks is definitely the shortest amount of time between tire changes for either of us.

Yesterday we went through and camped in Yosemite. The views and scenery were amazing and the roads were curvy and so much fun. The camping was expensive and the campgrounds weren't great but oh well. We took 120 west out of the park which was the most curvy road i have ever ridden on it was prett crazy and fun even with 25mph speed limits which really couldn't be pushed much. OH and coming in to Yosemite on 120 we passed a sign that said DIPS next 5 miles - I had never seen that before and needless to say the next 5 miles were very fun🤗

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Word to the wise. I was out west with my dad years ago. There was a dip sign in the road with lots of warnings. The road literally and quickly dropped about 3 feet for a dry creek bed then quickly went back to its previous height. Our rental car would have been in the air if I didn't slow down.

Years ago I vowed to revist Zionsville after a drive thru it.
 
You're coming north on the PCH?
You need to take an extra day and take the roads between Eureka and Redding
Far superior riding compared to the PCH.
You can'tt be riding past bucket list type roads. OR and Norcal are full of them

In OR the sign to watch out for is "sunken Grade". That means a big chunk of road is sliding down the hillside, but hasn't slid away as yet
 
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You're coming north on the PCH?
You need to take an extra day and take the roads between Eureka and Redding
Far superior riding compared to the PCH.
You can'tt be riding past bucket list type roads. OR and Norcal are full of them

In OR the sign to watch out for is "sunken Grade". That means a big chunk of road is sliding down the hillside, but hasn't slid away as yet
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Good advice. Take 299 east at Arcata. If you want my kind of fun, take 96 north at Willow creek off 299 and follow the Trinity and Klamath river up to Oregon, and find Big Foot. Fill up in Willow creek!
 
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