The Road, Pals, Motorbikes and BBQ'd Livestock!

I need a local motorcycle touring posse. Spring is "close enough" for me to be thinking more and more about touring. But today, re-posting a ride from 9 years ago (buddy Sean wanted to see the pics and I was happy to oblige!) reminded me "Touring is seldom like THAT time". Don't get me wrong, I have had awesome trips over here! You saw the pics. But I would definitely like MORE and the way to ride MORE is to keep the trips CHEAP. Staying at $85 a night fancy inns or taking a $200 ferry to get to the destination has been a good experience...but I have experienced that now, and it is time to move on to

To me a GREAT touring trip is meeting 9 or 10 people -- all sorts...guys, gals, WASPs, Japs, whoever... weirdos and normalos -- on all sorts of different bikes -- expensive ones, barely running homemade ones -- and ride and ride and ride to somewhere out in nature that rules. Set up camp, cook a shit load of animal flesh, drink whatever we want, laugh our fucking asses off, and ride all day the next day. If there were a hot-spring involved, like in Japan here, that would rule too. I thought that part was odd in the beginning, but yeah, a dip in an outdoor hot spring gets the muscles ready for a whole new day of riding the next day.

Maybe I should put out an add or something... ha!