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Jun 5, 2009 | 02:14 PM

jmcollison

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Leaving Vegas June 26 for OR. Spend a few days with family in Corvallis then off to Missoula, MT. Up through Glacier National Park to Great Falls. Next stop Denver and a couple of days of riding around Rocky Mountain Natl Park and Estes to Kansas City on the way to Nashville.

I plan on hanging there for a while. Need to ride the Natchez Trace then the Blue Ridge Parkway, Skyline Drive and off to a gathering of the HSOA in Gettysburg.

I have no plans on getting back to Vegas! May be moving to Nashville...who knows?

Jun 5, 2009 | 02:17 PM

oneloudz71

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Wow, heck of a ride.

Jun 5, 2009 | 03:03 PM

faber

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Watch the construction on US 93 between Missoula and St. Ignatius. You could be held up for 1+ hours. Ask me how I know.....

Jun 5, 2009 | 04:31 PM

jmcollison

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Originally Posted by faber

Watch the construction on US 93 between Missoula and St. Ignatius. You could be held up for 1+ hours. Ask me how I know.....

Thanks for the tip! Is that an ongoing project? I was hoping to get out of Missoula, hit Going to the Sun and make Great Falls by nightfall....

Jun 5, 2009 | 06:03 PM

wyoming55

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You sure are putting some spare time to some very good use, man I'd like to have that much time to ride, in just a few years,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Jun 5, 2009 | 06:07 PM

jmcollison

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Work to live or live to work? I've taken good care of my job for a long time (long to me any way) and I need to get out there. I've taken several 2+ week trips but my current job is over at the end of June and it's time to reconnect with some friends and the road.

If everything works out, I'll cross a few things off my "bucket list" before it needs training wheels!!!

Jun 5, 2009 | 06:38 PM

faber

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Thanks for the tip! Is that an ongoing project? I was hoping to get out of Missoula, hit Going to the Sun and make Great Falls by nightfall....

That's ambitious, especially in summer. Traffic around Flathead Lake in the summer can be slow in the best of conditions. And the Going-to-the-Sun Road is always a crawl in the afternoon (imagine what it's like being stuck behind an RV from the flatlands with Vern trying to learn how to get that thing around switchbacks and suddenly a mountain goat comes into view).

The construction on US 93 is kind of an ongoing project, and much needed. You could avoid it by going east on I-90 to the Seeley Lake exit and working up to Flathead Lake that way. But that won't save you any time, really. You'd just be moving and not sitting there.

Great Falls is not much of a muchness, though it is home of the Sip-n-Dip, the best mermaid bar in the US (google it).

But if you can swing it so that you stay in Whitefish, then wake up, do Glacier early, then head to....wherever you're going next, you'd be better off.