Ohhh, brother.

Where is our fearless GT rider...Richard the Great...errr I mean Richard the Late?

Awesome write up. Congratz on pulling off one of the toughest/most rewarding trips to do on a moto. It's one of the things I keep saying I will do, but keep putting off. When I do, I'm going to be referencing this write up.

Been trying to catch up; dry up the tears, etc., etc. and finally got a chance to read about your trip. I'll echo what Brian said, down to the fact that I'm going to do that one day and I'll be looken for pointers. It's so awesome that you just grabbed the opportunity and ran (or rode) with it!!

For those of you planning to do one of these, I'm posting my stops and costs for the 50CC part of the trip:

Control # City Bike Milage Miles Date Time (zone) Reason for Stop Gas Qty. Cost

1 San Diego, Ca. 19,441 0 12/12/06 07:28 PST Gas/Start 2.519 6.8
2 Yuma, Az. 19,626 185 12/12/06 10:51 MST Gas 5.028 12.77
3 Casa Grande, Az. 19,793 167 12/12/06 12:30 MST Gas 5.066 11.85
4 Casa Grande, Az. 19,793 0 12/12/06 13:03 MST Food Roast Beef 6.63
5 Lordsburg, Nm. 20,008 215 12/12/06 16:26 MST Gas ? 12.56
6 Sierra Blanca, Tx. 20,256 248 12/12/06 20:16 CST Gas 5.578 14.5
7 Ft. Stockton, Tx. 20,407 151 12/12/06 23:25 CST Gas 4.075 11
8 Ozana, Tx. 20,516 109 12/13/06 01:10 CST Food Sandwich 2.43
9 Junction, Tx. 20,606 90 12/13/06 02:49 CST Gas 5.558 15
9A San Antonio, Tx. 20,701 95 12/13/06 04:20 CST Sleep Sleep 0
10 Leon Springs, Tx. 20,704 3 12/13/06 10:32 CST Gas 2.842 6.7
11 Houston, Tx. 20,931 227 12/13/06 14:35 CST Gas 5.464 12.4
12 Beaumont, Tx. 21,007 76 12/13/06 17:12 CST Food ChBrgr 5.83
13 Baton Rouge, La. 21,184 177 12/13/06 18:30 CST Gas 5.878 13.75
14 Malbis, Al. 21,400 216 12/13/06 22:08 CST Gas 5.603 14
15 Tallahassee, Fl. 21,637 237 12/14/06 02:45 EST Food Pancake 11.99
16 Tallahassee, Fl. 21,637 0 12/14/06 03:56 EST Gas 6.361 15.9
17 Jacksonville, Fl. 21,815 178 12/14/06 06:58 EST Gas/Finish 4.335 10.1

Total miles:2374
Total time: 44.5 Hours
Gas used: approxamately 63.607 gallons(One stop I had to go in to get a receipt, but it didn't have the gallons on it)
Total Cost (including food, but not food I had with me) $157.33

Avg. speed 53 m.p.h.

So that's basically 13 stops, not counting start and end points and dual stops (food/gas and sleep/gas)

Great write up Richard, it is nice to finally read about it from your perspective.

The "Ride Planning" thread that prefaced this "Ride Tale" titled "50CC Cheerleaders wanted" has also been archived to this Forum. The link is here (clicky).