[Ducati] speaking of cross country trips

[Ronald Betts]

Cool idea Kevin...!



Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!





>From: kevink38 at comcast.net
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: ducati at ducati.net
>Subject: [Ducati] speaking of cross country trips Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 
>17:03:14 +0000
>
>The time until my planned departure date of June 19 is rapidly passing. As 
>I
>make plans, I feel like there just isn't enough time to do all the things I 
>need
>to do to prepare, or make pre-trip arrangements. Of course, too much 
>planning
>takes the spontaneousness out of the trip; that idea of just getting on the 
>bike
>and heading off, letting the road bring it what it will. Where this applies 
>to
>me is the conflict between the spontaneousness (I can't spell spontenaeity) 
>and
>being on schedule (and covering a lot of miles in a finite amount of time). 
>Some
>of you have offered places to stay and/or stow  the bike, and I thank you. 
>Over
>the next week or so, I'll be sending out and/or posting a timeline, with 
>windows
>of when I hope to be dropping in on people. There is also the conflict of
>enjoying what the different areas have to offer (the Aquarium in Newport, 
>OR,
>for example), and getting down the road. I haven't done this before, so I 
>don't
>know how much sightseeing and local traveling
>can happen in a 13-14 day trip that covers over 5,000 miles.
>I appreciate the feedback I have gotten so far. Keep it coming.
>I hope to have a modest website devoted to this trip., I've already started 
>bugging Jules to help set this up, and could use other assistance and 
>suggestions (except for writing a little HTML years ago, I'm not too savy). 
>You know, daily uploads with that day's trip log, pictures, videos, 
>interviews of ducatisti and anyone else who crosses my path. Cool idea, 
>huh?
>-----
>Kevin Kachadourian
>96 900 SP
>85 Alazzurra 650 (old dog still bites)
>
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