Sounds like a fun little trip. Are you riding in NYC itself? Be careful if so...
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Fall colors are near peaking in high-elevation areas in Northeast West Virginia right now, so I would imagine the same could be setup in Vermont. The weather is really wonderful this weekend, are you able to be making it out? It's going to be a bit cooler after this. A few more weekends of riding the GS, and it will get retired to just city riding for the remainder of the mild fall weather season -
hitting one deer during their fall mating season was plenty for me! Dirt bikes until December. Then maybe I toy with studded snow tires and ice racing! Or just wrench on the 6 or so half running motorcycle projects in my garage for the winter!
This year was a bit less than I had envisioned for myself, motorcycle travels at least, and next spring I turn 40 years old, a milestone of sorts, but for me, more of a reminder that I am not getting any younger and I had better latch onto my youthfulness as hard as I can and get the heck out and do some great extended weekend 3.5 to 7.5 day road trips with my 3 weeks of vacation! In order to make that happen, since none of my fanatical motorcycle friends ever are able to cut loose and actually go riding in the hills or on even extended weekend trips, I had probably better tame down my ludacris riding pace in the twisties to a safer solo traveler pace... too much to see, too little time!
When I turn 42 years old in May of 2020, I will reach the occupational milestone of graduating from 15 days vacation time to 25 days vacation time... FINALLY...FINALLY I WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH TIME OFF TO RIDE OUT WEST TO COLORADO ETC!!!!!
If I had attempted that on 15 days of vacation, it would basically take up most of my vacation time for the entire year, which is a deal-breaker, as I love to take 3.5 4.5 or 5.5 day weekends down into the West Virginia hills and mountains, or even as far as Western North Carolina Eastern Tennessee.
That extra half day on every vacation trip plan is referencing me trying to get off work slightly early so that I can come home to a packed motorcycle and dogs already with dog sitters, and just hit the road and eat up a couple hundred miles on a non-vacation day, so that I can spend more time enjoying the rest of the trip instead of just eating miles endlessly to get to my destination roads or stationary / hiking destinations.
hitting one deer during their fall mating season was plenty for me! Dirt bikes until December. Then maybe I toy with studded snow tires and ice racing! Or just wrench on the 6 or so half running motorcycle projects in my garage for the winter!
This year was a bit less than I had envisioned for myself, motorcycle travels at least, and next spring I turn 40 years old, a milestone of sorts, but for me, more of a reminder that I am not getting any younger and I had better latch onto my youthfulness as hard as I can and get the heck out and do some great extended weekend 3.5 to 7.5 day road trips with my 3 weeks of vacation! In order to make that happen, since none of my fanatical motorcycle friends ever are able to cut loose and actually go riding in the hills or on even extended weekend trips, I had probably better tame down my ludacris riding pace in the twisties to a safer solo traveler pace... too much to see, too little time!
When I turn 42 years old in May of 2020, I will reach the occupational milestone of graduating from 15 days vacation time to 25 days vacation time... FINALLY...FINALLY I WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH TIME OFF TO RIDE OUT WEST TO COLORADO ETC!!!!!
If I had attempted that on 15 days of vacation, it would basically take up most of my vacation time for the entire year, which is a deal-breaker, as I love to take 3.5 4.5 or 5.5 day weekends down into the West Virginia hills and mountains, or even as far as Western North Carolina Eastern Tennessee.
That extra half day on every vacation trip plan is referencing me trying to get off work slightly early so that I can come home to a packed motorcycle and dogs already with dog sitters, and just hit the road and eat up a couple hundred miles on a non-vacation day, so that I can spend more time enjoying the rest of the trip instead of just eating miles endlessly to get to my destination roads or stationary / hiking destinations.
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I just looked it up and noticed that Boston was only a hair over three hours from Green Mountain National Forest in the southern tip of Vermont. It is absolutely beautiful there, and I hope that you are already familiar with riding there and taking in the beautiful scenery there. The roads are not quite like West Virginia mountains as far as extreme twistiness, but the scenery certainly is. Just North of there, it looks like Route 17 through Camel Hump State Park is a pretty spectacular twisty road! Any road that traverses over mountainous ridges is likely to be quite the epic thriller! Have you ever attended the GS Green Mountain Rally? If not, you should look up their routes!
Best of luck in your travels,
Chuck in central Ohio
Best of luck in your travels,
Chuck in central Ohio
I prefer to make a detailed plan, but I also plan on not following it. If there is anyplace you want to end up, and you don't know how to get there, I whole heartedly recommend that you ask the good folks on this list what is a worthwhile way to get there with minimal superslab. The Interstates just go city to city anyway, and who loves city riding, or staring at the back of trucks, and only chain restaurants?
I've done a lot of tent camping on motorcycle rides, and stealth camping too. The thing about that is the extra time it takes to set up and leave camp. Nobody likes setting up a tent in the dark. The more people you have, too, the longer every stop is. I would safely take 50 miles per day out of every planned trip for every additional person over two. It is still the more the merrier though.