3,500K X Country adventure - L.A. to Deeeeetroit. Majestic vista Hwy suggestions?
Hey ALL:
About to take a 2nd summer long adventure on the B. Taking off Fri Sept 2nd. Any insight, suggestions, comments would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the itinerary:
DAY 1: Leaving Hollywood about 5 p.m. ish, to La Quinta (Palm Springs area), spend the night here, and attack the desert first thing in the a.m. A year or 2 ago, left L.A. early a.m. but still caught 115 temps in Blythe to Phoenix. Dry heaves, massive headaches, dizziness (heat stroke). Messed up my body clock for about 2 days.
DAY 2: Leaving Palm Springs, arriving PHX to p/u petite curvaceous blonde flight attendant. Then we're heading to Sedona via Cottonwood.
DAY 3: Heading to Moab, Hwys 89, 163 (Monument Valley) 191
DAY 4: Heading to Telluride; Hwys 191, 491, 160, 550. This is the longer ride to Telluride but million dollar hwy is quite majestic.
DAY 5: Heading to Aspen; Hwys 550, 50 285, 24, 82.
DAY 6: Heading to Vail / Eagle airport to drop off blondie, then to Vail for our company's 4 day retreat.
DAY 7: Heading to Hot Springs, SD. Interstate 70, 25, Hwy 18.
DAY 8: Heading to Mt. Rushmore, Deadwood, Sturgis, Hwys, 34, 14 and probably call it a day @ Pierre, SD or ???????
DAY 9: Heading to the east side of Minneapolis. Not sure if HWY 14 or 212 is scenic, or whatever passes for scenic for those 400 ish miles. ?????
DAY 10: Heading up to Copper Harbor, MI. Probably take HWYS 63/ 77/ 28/26/ 41
DAY 11: Heading to Petoskey. Hwys 41, 94, 2.
DAY 12: Heading to Traverse City (have breakfast) continue to Big Rapids. See friends from College, etc.
DAY 13: Heading to Deeeeeetroit. Spend some time with the parents, and damnit, the Tigers are playing on the road. Ship the bike to Dallas. Employer wants me to move there for 8 months. Fly back to L.A. pack up the Jeep, and head to Dallas.
