Colorado: Rocky Mountain Empire Longtime Colorado resident and author Hunter S. Thompson once remarked “Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.” It seemed to us that most Coloradans live that sentiment. The first state in the nation to legalize marijuana and a population that seems to possess an autonomous view of life, it was…
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Wyoming: The Cowboy State Second only to Alaska, Wyoming has the smallest population in the United States per square mile: five. There’s something you feel about that when you enter the cowboy state for the first time. Low population density ultimately means low pollution, which means clear starry night skies (and less crime). I can…
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Montana: Big Sky Country We pulled into Billings, MT with a collective sigh of relief after the full-throttle cross-country press. Lovers of open spaces, big peaks, and rugged landscapes, we started to feel the love for “Big Sky Country” creep into our cold Yankee hearts. We had made it west. From the headwaters of the…
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Westward: The Journey Begins We decided we would ride into the sun on fully decked out sidecars from the Eastern seaboard of the continent. To test the Urals and ourselves, the trip would be over 2,000 miles west, from the hilly forests of the Northeast, through the endless, flat farmland of the Midwest, and on…
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Westbound I remember when we pulled in for breakfast in Port Allegany and she came over to greet us. There was an…
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Imagine chasing a string of motorcycles along a serpentine alpine road, the sun shining (maybe) and the wind (or snow) in your…
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With all the marketing hype around ‘adventure riding’ these days, many motorcyclists won’t dare go off the beaten track without a large…
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Norwegians have always had the travel bug. After all, they discovered Iceland in the 9th century and, as Vikings, spent a good…
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