Motorcycle Nation Podcast

I want to tour. Some people want to cruise the town for a few hours. Some have the need for speed and play during track days. Some are perfectly happy riding a few miles to work once a month. I want to tour. I want to see North America from the seat of my bike and smell the smells and feel the weather changes. I want to spend hours a day on my motorcycle while racking up the miles stopping only for gas, food, and photo opportunities. I want to explain to those who ask what people from Indiana are doing in their state, town, or province on a motorcycle. It is just a dream of mine.

There are many places that I would like to visit via a bike. I have always said that my dream ride would be to fly to Australia and rent a motorcycle and ride as much as possible in two weeks and see as much as I could. From roughing it in the Outback to the beauty of Sydney harbor and the architectural appeal of the Sydney Opera house. Another dream ride that I have read about and I long to do is through Vancouver. Maybe my friend RonW could clue me in on that ride if he has ever made it that way. I have seen pictures and the views there are breathtaking. I have also always wanted to cross into Windsor Ontario and ride to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and cross back into the US and trek back home. Montana, Wyoming, and Utah are just a few of that states that I want to roll two wheels into. Motorcycling nirvana I am told.

My idea of the perfect ride is one with no schedule and no particular destination. I have a relative who takes two weeks off every year and he and his wife meet up with three other couples and do a ride. The agenda is that they have to be back to Indiana on whatever date. Other than that, no one knows where they are going. They take off on day one and one couple takes the lead. They stop at a decent hour and wash up and go to dinner. Then it is off to bed for a break of day breakfast and back on the road. The destination for day two is picked by couple number two by saying only that the group will be heading South or North or Northwest. That is my kind of ride. Three years ago the final trip tally was fifteen states in sixteen days and 6600 miles. Plus, there were a lot of great stories to tell.

What is your dream ride? Let us know by clicking on the comments link at the end of this post and telling us what and where your dream ride would take you. I look forward to hearing from you and you may just turn the rest of us on to a great riding destination.

Ride Safe

HarleyMac1 and the MC Nation