Monthly Archives: June 2006

Trip Costs

Isn’t online banking great? I finally sat down a created a spreadsheet of my costs for the West Virginia trip. I did 3300 miles over 9 days and spent a grand total of $797.25 Breakdown:Gas – $175.46Food – $92.44Lodging – … Continue reading

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States Visited

Here’s an updated map of states I’ve visited by motorcycle – ie actually RIDING through. And states visited, by car or bike. I don’t count flying over. (to my knowledge – it may be more…mom? dad? create your own visited … Continue reading

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STN 06 National Trip Report – Index & Maps

This is a temporary index for my recent trip to the Sport-Touring.Net 2006 National Meet. It was held in mid June, 2006 in Canaan Valley, West Virginia. I traveled 3300 miles in 9 days. Enjoy! Garmin Mapsource File – here … Continue reading

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Slabbing Home

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 9 – Arkadelphia, AR to Cypress, TX~400 miles Ok. So I didn’t take any pictures today either. I guess the boredom of yesterday and today serve to balance out the awesomeness of the first … Continue reading

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Weather or Not

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 8 – Paducah, KY to Arkadelphia, AR~400 miles I should have done the hotel thing last night because I got a really late start this morning. I guess those 600 mile days really do … Continue reading

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Positioning

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 7 – Canaan Valley, WV to Paducah, KY~605 miles This day was planned as an unpleasant interstate marathon to position me for two days of enjoyable Arkansas and Oklahoma twisties. By 8:45AM I’d said … Continue reading

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Day of Rest

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 6 – Canaan Valley, WV~60 miles Several people were planning on going out and doing a mammoth 400 miles of WV twisties today. Others were headed out to play “Tag the State” and add … Continue reading

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Overload

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 5 – Boone, NC to Canaan Valley, WV~400 miles After so many relatively short mileage days, I felt a little overwhelmed this morning when the GPS flashed “400 miles” at me. There was really … Continue reading

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Miles of Smiles

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 4 – Deal’s Gap, TN to Boone, NC~286 miles Lessee… Deal’s Gap …checkGreat Smoky Mountains National Park …checkBlue Ridge Parkway …check Almost 300 miles of twisting, turning, gaping (at the views), and vrooming. What … Continue reading

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An Almost Perfect Day

Journey to the ST.N National MeetDay 3 – Nashville, TN to Deals Gap, TN~270 miles Great Food. Moderate temperatures. World class roads. It would have been a perfect day if not for the Jetta that wanted to play bumper cars. … Continue reading

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