California bound on an FJR1300 in April

Carmen said:

I am finally back home to reality. I am thankful for my life changing trip, but reality sucks. I was starting to enjoy my life as a nomad.

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Sigh -I know what you mean. There was only one year since my first trip out west I haven't headed back although I cheated this spring and flew to Phoenix. I'm already contemplating a run back to Colorado in the fall.
Sounds like you were lucky weather wise with California and Arizona now burning and Colorado pelted with hail

I suspect dodging wild weather is the new norm.

I want to thank you for your regular input during my 6 week trip Mac Doc. Your weather advice and regular contact were an encouragement to me. Thank you to you also Beastie Girl. I now understand why you like Colorado so much. It's beauty cannot be adequately described by words alone. I am still trying to figure out how to post pics here. I have over 500 of them. It was so easy on the road. I took pics on my camera phone and uploaded them to my facebook. I am trying to upload them to photobucket and then post a link here, but even that is not going well for me.

The FJR performed flawlessly during my 16,000 km 6 week trip. The only problem I had was with my throttle grip, but it proved to be my fault all along. I got into the habit of forgetting that my throttle lock was on. I would force the grip back to the off throttle position. In time the glue between the grip and plastic sub-grip let go. I want to thank Chattanooga Honda for taking such good care of me. These guys took my bike in right away and didn't even charge me for the hour they spent fiddling with my throttle grip. They installed a set of Michelins and performed an oil change for me. The FJR isn't going to win any beauty contests, but I figure any bike that is used hard is going to get scuffed up.

My pleasure always nice to know your adventures are being followed.

I use Picasa -

https://picasaweb.google.com/home

I do use Photobucket for quick stuff as well but Picasa allows full size for future.

The click to copy part of Photobucket is good.
http://s106.photobucket.com

But they messed it.
Don't feel bad you are having issues - some protocalls have changed - a lot of the posting now is drag and drop from you photo site into the post here rather than coding

But the Photobuck coding still works




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disabled below - I find just typing pasteyourphotolink[/img /]

resulting in your image showing is easy on here but photobucket click to paste is easiest.
The button on the top is one click to copy and then just paste it into the forum

This is the direct link to an image
It would display by putting [img] in front and behind it

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...I/AAAAAAAAGEQ/aSjTEoCv9-A/s640/renewedklr.JPG

(

my spiffed up KLR650 in Australia )

The Photobucket links work like this
Click on the box beside IMG and it automatically copies the correct embedding

Then paste from your device and voila.



Photobucket has decent edit tools and a bulk uploader that I've not used but might be good for you.
One thing to note - Photobucket does not take kindly to reorganizing after you have linked photos to a thread so get your albums set up ahead of time ( you'll see a few threads here where I've screwed that up )
Picasa does allow reorganizing without the links being broken and important allows full resolution storage as the world moves to 2k and 4k screens and little trimmed down photos will then suck.

Both have reasonable slide shows

But some forum software has changed and it's a moving target as more go to drag and drop for photos

I finally have some pics to share. Hope you like them. I took 600 but posted 106.

http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/cocchiuto/library/?sort=3&page=1

The hardest part.....sorting travel pics....still at some, 10 years out.

We like signs like this



I used to get nosebleeds at the top of the BR - forgotten how high it is.

See you got to Arches. and the Grand Canyon.

That's hilarious - except for Yellowstone that could have been our photo album from Nov.
Lot of ground you covered. Well done.
We took 3 weeks out of LA.

You had pics of the PCH, and Colorado, to choose from yet that pic of WV was your favorite?

Macdoc needs to bring his bike west.

Carmen said:

I finally have some pics to share. Hope you like them. I took 600 but posted 80.

http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/cocchiuto/library/?sort=3&page=1

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Thanks for sharing. I have got to find the time to make a western trip. Unfortunately any more than a week or two is out of the question for me. I love the Kawi Z1 picture from the Barber Museum. To me it's one of the most beautiful bikes ever made.

Awesome to hear. I've had my FJ just over a year and very happy with it. I'm glad to know yours ran flawlessly. I'm very happy with my choice and am loving it.

Macdoc needs to bring his bike west.

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I was supposed to be somewhere west of the Mississippi just about now but someone mentioned a short cut across Lake Michigan.

And a cage tour of BC/Alaska with Aussie GF replaced the bike run.
https://www.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=211244682436096838777.0004f464bc6c524a5ebcb&msa=0

Such is life.

I would not have wanted to do our western national parks run in Nov by bike - but was great in the cage and could share part of the trip with extended family.

Still want to point the Burgman west ....that 1600 km in 36 hours finding spring was a treat.
Just have string a few together. Maybe next year, maybe Sept/Oct this year since not going to Aus in winter this year.

You had pics of the PCH, and Colorado, to choose from yet that pic of WV was your favorite?

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My fav was your shot of the highest point on the BRP as I recall driving it with family when I was a kid. The twists shot was just me not riding enough since that quick run south.....too busy at work and prepping for Alaska. Now your shots and one of rhe road stories at the Burgman site about 4 days in the Smokies have me eager to get south.


Still on the bucket list to do the whole Blue Ridge.....maybe that's a thought for the fall. The Barber Museum looks fab and very photogenic

We'd done the PCH and all the big parks last Nov so that was why I was supposed to be heading west right about now on the bike. Those parks in Utah are jaw dropping and I really wanted to ride them this summer.
the advantage of shooting from a cage....simply easier to photograph especially w GF riding shotgun with the second camera.



https://picasaweb.google.com/113408...eZionAndArches2013?authuser=0&feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/113408714888195024530/Yellowstone?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Your trip was pretty close to what I had planned out except mine was planned to be further north ending in Banff and then home.

We all live vicariously to some degree...a friend Marty on his ancient BWM put on 34,000 km last year yet has never been south of PA. He likes his wilderness.