Here are the sites we found particularly helpful for our trip:
World Nomads (for our health insurance)
CDC travel health notices for Mexico
Drive to Observatory, mile-by-mile
Other travelogues about the region: http://exhaustnotes.us/blog/index.php/2019/03/26/baja-a-7-day-itinerary/
MEXICO TOURISM WEBSITES:
BAJA CITY TOURISM WEBSITES:
Also see:
But here is the full story behind our trip, the EPIC TRAVELOGUE FOR OUR MOTORCYCLE MEXICO ADVENTURE, which provides more than you would EVER want to know...
Video of the loading of the motorcycles.
Video of the departure from Los Angeles, heading for Tecate.
Video of parking the bikes on the last night in Mexico.
Video of snow in Weed, California.
And if you want to more info from me about motorcycle traveling for women and my travels in general:My favorite North American Ghost towns / historic mining towns / pre-1900s towns
Advice for Traveling Around the USA Camping & Hiking
Women's Safety While Tent Camping
For Women Who Travel By Motorcycle (or want to)
Advice for Women Motorcycle Travelers: Packing
advice for Women Motorcycle Travelers: footwear (shoes & socks).
Advice for Women Motorcycle Travelers: Transportation and Accommodations Choices
Suggested short motorcycle routes in Oregon and Washington state (from an hour to all-day; many can be linked together to create longer trips).
transire benefaciendo: "to travel along while doing good." Advice for those wanting to make their travel more than sight-seeing and shopping, whether in your own country or abroad.
Motorcycle Tour of Northern California & Southwestern Oregon: 11 days, 10 nights, 2095 miles, September 2019. Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, McArthur Burney Falls State Park, Salmon River Road between Somes Bar and Cecilville, California, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California state road 36, Empire Mine State Historic Park and Grass Valley, Downieville, Modoc National Forest, Bear Camp Coastal Route in Josephine County, Oregon & my first water crossing!
Oregon Volcanic Rock Huggers Motorcycle Ride: 4 days, 3 nights, 580 miles, July 2019. Deschutes National Forest, Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Big Obsidion Flow, McKay Butte Fire, Fort Rock
Steens Mountain, Oregon, Great Basin National Park and Rachel, Nevada. We spent 13 days, going over 2657 miles / 4276 kilometers, mostly in Nevada in 2018. It was a terrific, but incredibly hot and smokey, trip. Also see all of our 2018 motorcycle adventures.
Olympic National Park and Forest, the Northern Cascades, Mount Rainer - our epic, smokey Washington state trip. 2382 km / 1489 miles. And all of our 2017 motorcycle travel (lots of local trips around North Western Oregon).
Two weeks in Idaho: Silver City, Hells Canyon, Silver City, Idaho, Bruneau Dunes State Park, City of Rocks National Reserve, Sawtooth Scenic Byway, Salmon River Scenic Byway, Custer, Idaho, Ft. Missoula, Montana, historic Wallace, Idaho, Lake Coeur d'Alene, White Pine Scenic Byway, Hell's Canyon Overlook, Oregon, Joseph, Painted Hills, and Little Crater Lake in Mt. Hood National Forest. 4280 km / 2675 miles. At least 120 miles of gravel. One of our FAVORITE trips. And all of our 2016 motorcycle adventures.
Two trips in Canada, one in 2015 and one 2010. Most recently, in 2015: to Stewart, British Columbia, Hydar, Alaska, the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, the Yukon, the Alaska Highway - a grand tour of British Columbia. 5954 km / 3700 miles. And, earlier, one of my first motorcycle adventures, in southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, to tour Jasper, Banff and much more. See all of our 2015 motorcycle adventures and all my 2010 motorcycle adventures.
Grand Utah tour: Moab, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Goblin Valley, Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, and camping in a cow pasture in a desert of Nevada and at Farewell Bend Oregon State Park. And my first motorcycle wreck. 2989 miles / 4810.329 kilometres. Also see all of our 2014 Motorcycle Travel.
Eastern Oregon long weekend: Antelope, Oregon amid the ghosts of the Rajneesh colony, seeing the Alvord Desert for the first time. Also: Sweet Home, Sisters, Antelope, Shaniko, Fossil, Condon, Heppner, Ukiah. 2012. 2012 was our busiest motorcycle travel year.
Weekend camping and riding trip in Eastern Oregon, Gifford Pinchot National Forest / Southern Washington State, sites around Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. 2012.
Lava Beds National Monument, Lassen National Monument, Emmets Pass, Devil's Postpile (California), the Alvord Dessert (Oregon), and everything in between. September 2012. 2446 miles / 3914 km miles.
Yellowstone, Western Montana, Wyoming & more. Including US Highway 12 through Lolo Pass, Nevada City (Montana), Craters of the Moon, Bruneau Dunes State Park, and John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The trip ended at the legendary Burning Moto Man 2011, in Westfir, Oregon. 2680 miles. We also spent one week in Washington state, September 2011 to celebrate my husband's 40th birthday, visiting Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Ape Cave, ice cave and lava tubes, Gifford Pinchot National Forest and a bit of Mt. Hood
Oh Canada (and more). It was nothing short of epic: British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, Jasper, Banff and Kootenay National Parks for the first time, Glacier National Park, Swan Lake National Park, Garnet ghost town in Montana, and so much more, all via motorcycle. 2,535 miles / 4,056 km. And it wasn't our only trip in 2010. We went back to Jasper and Banff in 2015.
The Lost Highway motorcycle tour (my first trip on my own motorcycle): Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Ferndale, California, the notorious Mattole Road from there to Petrolia, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Avenue of the Giants, Bigfoot Scenic Byway and my first (and thus far only) Horizons Unlimited rally. About 1000 miles. 2010.
Eastern Europe three week trip (pillion): Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia. Amazing. 2008.
Northern France (pillion): ancient sites, Roman sites, medieval sites, World War I sites, World War II sites... Bayeaux Tapestry. Mont St-Michel, Carnac, and so much more. Amazing food, amazing sites. Good camping. Two weeks. 2007.
Scotland (pillion): Leaving from a port in Belgium, arriving in Hull, England. Highlights: Hadrian's Wall, Braemar, the main Orkney Island, Kilmartin, Ballmoral, Loch Ness, the small stone circle near Tarland... more than I can summarize here. Two weeks. 2006.
Bruges, Belgium (pillion): Long weekend. 2005. This was more of a boring ride on a motorcycle to get some place, followed by an amazing time walking around Bruges (great beer!).
Norway & Sweden (pillion): Kristiansand, fjords, sea life, mountains, glaciers, a rock slide, a crazy ferry ride and primitive rock art. Two weeks. My first motorcycle trip! 2004.
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