More details below, but if you want to "ride along" then here are the quickie instructions.

This site will be updated most days with wild tales and photos as I go.
Just look for the links in the left menu for
2006 trip
2006 trip gallery
2006 trip map

Often the trip reports will be posted initially in a skeleton fashion and will be updated later. Eventually I'll go back and annotate them with links to websites that further amplify the places I talk about. You can see in the right-hand menu which items have been updated. 

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Most of the planning is done for The Vagabond -- 2006 edition. An ambitious trip is in the offing. Here is a photo of the bike from the 2004 trip.

Attached is an Adobe PDF file of the basic route which is (subject to change) in general terms, the following:

• Home to Jones Valley, AR
• Then to Kansas City, MO to see the Keels
•  Then to the Black Hills of South Dakota via the Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore, up through Montana via Devil's Tower to visit the Little Big Horn and ride Beartooth Pass, down into Wyoming to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, then west across Yellowstone to Boise, ID for Rally No. 1.  It's the BMW Riders Association International rally. July 6-9. Depart by July 9.
• Then Southeastward to Paonia, CO for Rally No. 2. That is the Colorado BMW Club's "Top of the Rockies" rally. Haven't yet figured out all of the enroute sights. July 13-16. Depart by July 16.
• Then Northeastward to Burlington, VT (actually Essex Junction) for the National BMW rally.  July 20-23.  Probably depart by July 21 or 22.
• Then return via Philadelphia (Independence Hall and that cracked bell, etc), thence the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (from whence cometh the surname), ride some of the side roads along the Blue Ridge Parkway (I've done the Parkway proper), and on towards home  in an as yet undetermined route aside from those features.

This trek is the "Peaks of America Tour" involving rallies by the three major organizations in the BMW world in America. Who knows if I'll actually make the last leg, but I might!

There will be regular updates to the blogs with photos and the map (see link above) will be annotated as I go.
Who cares?  If nothing else it'll be a fine record for ruminations in my old age when I can no longer swing a foot over the saddle. If someone else finds it entertaining then I'm pleased.

The Cap'n.