Our motorcycle trip is just about a week away and we can't wait. Current plans have us departing Junction City on July 3rd heading for Rocky Mountain National Park. We'll spend the holiday in the park looking for some Fourth of July celebrations. From Colorado we plan to go west to just across the Utah border, then turn north continuing into Wyoming where we'll visit Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone. After spending the day with Old Faithful, the plan is to head northwest-ish to Glacier National Park. The Northern loop of our route will take us east out of Glacier, across Montana and into North Dakota. If time allows (or we feel like it) we may scoot over the border to Canada, just to say we did :-) In North Dakota, we plan to stop at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. (just can't pass up visiting any site of the President the puppy is named for). Then our route takes us to South Dakota to see the Badlands, Mount Rushmore and because we're on a motorcycle trip, Sturgis. From there we're making a mad dash across Nebraska and Iowa ending in St. Louis. From St. Louis we depart for Mexico on Sunday, July 12 for four days of beach time. We fly back to St. Louis on the 16th. After visiting the family and friends in St. Louis we'll head back home to Junction City on the 19th. Vacation will be over, (so sad) and the laundry and clean-up will begin. As we travel I plan to update nightly with the cool stuff we see, places we eaten and oddities of the road (to include pictures of me on the motorcycle-an oddity in and of itself).
