At long last,Roadtripper '06 pics

[Y2K]

There are too many to post here one at a time so I've made a series of slide show links for viewing,they are in the order of our journey.
I didn't take any pics on the first day due to a 4 hour delay because of a flat tire 100 miles out.
We rode from Yacolt,WA. to Lakeview,OR. on day one despite the flat.
Pics start in SE Oregon then NW Neveda and hwy 50 East on to the Great Basin.
On to Cedar Breaks Utah,Bruce Canyon and over the Grand Staircase,across Glen Canyon and the Colorado River and working our way into Arizona and down to Monument Valley.
We shot down to Santa Fe NM then North through Los Alamos and into Colorado.
We stayed in Durango then rode the Million Dollar hiway through Silverton,did the Black Canyon,Rocky Mtn Nat. Park and ended up in the black Hills of SD. the week after Sturgis.
After some superslab from Spearfish SD. to Sheridan WY. we rode through the Big Horn mountains and Shell Canyon,did the Beartooth hiway(in the rain and road construction ) and got a cabin in Cooke City just outside Yellowstone.
We rode Yellowstone and the Tetons,crossed into Idaho and up the Salmon river on 93 to Missoula MT. then Lolo pass back across ID. and into Eastern WA. for home.
If ya'll have a question about any of the pics like where or what give a shout and I'll try and answer them.
I can also post a bigger pic of any you want to see better,here goes.....

[MisterB]

Hey, nice pics. Thanks for posting them. Some of the best riding I've ever done is in Southern Utah. Looks like you enjoyed it there, along with everywhere else you went.

Question for you: How do you deal with the wind noise in your ears for all those miles? I really get sick of it, and it has just about made me want to avoid the highway as much as possible. I've tried earplugs, but I can still hear the wind quite a bit, and it just makes my head feel plugged. I really don't like full face helmets, so I wear a DOT carbon fiber half helemt, and PanOptx glasses. I know your bike is better for highway stuff than my '07 Train, but I've heard the fairing and windshield you've got gives you buffetting problems? I don't know, maybe I just need to be old and deaf, and it won't bother me so much?

[PlanB]

Dean, Those pictures were well worth the wait!

For those that need real simple instructions (like me), just click on each picture here for a whole slide show of that area! Great way to do it!

I'm really Jonesin' to hit some of those areas...Southern Utah has been calling me loudly lately!

Thanks for taking the time to post these for us! If those don't give all of us the traveling urge, I don't know what will!

[lsctommy]

Nice pics. I gotta start taking pictures again even if they don't fully capture the moment.

[roadogette]

Great pix Dean. Some of them look very familiar. Like the ones from my trip out west last year. We missed the construction on the Beartooth as we didn't go to Cooke City. You make me wanna go back.

[Y2K]

Originally Posted by roadogette

Great pix Dean. Some of them look very familiar. Like the ones from my trip out west last year. We missed the construction on the Beartooth as we didn't go to Cooke City. You make me wanna go back.

Thanks Suzie,we hit road construction just out of Red Lodge and had a 45 minute dealy,pea gravel all the way up the hill and had to follow a pilot car
Fortunately it wasn't my first time on the Beartooth.

[Y2K]

Originally Posted by MisterB

I've heard the fairing and windshield you've got gives you buffetting problems?

Eh! what's that you say! can't hear ya speak up!

Actually the buffeting can be pretty much tamed with the fork mounted air baffle that goes between the forks at the bottom of the fairing and the little wing extensions that mount on the lower sides of the fairing along with the right height windshield,which for me is the OEM stocker.
I wear a beanie helmet where I have to like here at home to keep jonny law off me and go without some places where it's legal to do so depending on traffic,weather and terrain.
Hate the full face space suite things.
I don't know what if anything you can do about the wind on a Nightrain besides getting the biggest windshield you can find.
I guess you need to get used to earplugs,maybe get some of those high end custom fit ones,I had to wear ear plugs at work for so many years so I hate them.

[Y2K]

Originally Posted by lsctommy

Nice pics. I gotta start taking pictures again even if they don't fully capture the moment.

They really don't do these places justice,all I can say is peoples ya gotta get out and see them for yourselves.

[Y2K]

Originally Posted by PlanB

For those that need real simple instructions (like me), just click on each picture here for a whole slide show of that area! Great way to do it!

Thanks Mike,I should have mentioned that,was get'n groggy by the time I posted last night.

[Lowbob]

Outstanding photos. Thanks for posting them. I particularly liked viewing them as slideshows. All I can say is, Wow".