Bernie and Linda's Blog: The Multi Leg Motorcycle Trip

The 1st Leg:

This year we decided that rather than take a long trip we would try a multi-leg trip. The advantage being that we could venture far from home, by motorcycle, yet still be at home when Linda's store is busier, Christmas, the better part of the ski season, grandkid's birthdays, etc.

The first part of the trip took place in August. Starting from Fernie, we drove both the car and the motorcycle to Kalispell, MT. We parked the car and traveled south and west on the motorcycle to the Oregon and California coast. The weather on the coast was unseasonably cool, so we headed inland north of San Francisco to Auburn, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and then through Death Valley to "Lost Wages". We left the MC and some of our gear at a storage facility near the Vegas airport and flew back to Kalispell.

I didn't blog this leg of the trip because we didn't have room for the laptop. However, this one of the best MC trips we have had. We traveled at a relaxed pace(average 270K per day) and visited many interesting and few rather spectacular places. See Photos below...

The 2nd. Leg:

Tomorrow we are flying back to Vegas to pick up the bike and head for Mexico. Our planned route takes us across the mexico border at Tecate and down the Baja to La Paz. We are stopping off at a few fishing villages on the way down the Baja that we have not visited before. In La Paz we have arranged a 2 week home stay and Spanish course. Then we will take the ferry from La Paz to Topolabampo, visit some friends in Guamichil and work our way down towards Puerto Vallarta. We will be leaving the bike at a storage facility near PVR and flying back to Kalispell on December 1st. The 3rd. Leg will start when we fly back to PVR next Spring.... Anyway, that's the plan!

Here's a few pics from the 1st. Leg of the trip from Fernie to Vegas

At a rest stop around Lake Tahoe, CA

The 650 Suzuki Loaded

Camping at Sunset Bay, OR

We started out camping but it was a pain-in-the ass getting everything packed up and making it fit on the bike each morning. We decided sent the camping gear back to Eureka, Montana after a few days.