It's that time of year to start planning our vacations. We went up to Billings on Friday and met our friends for dinner. This year we are planning a motorcycle trip to the Oregon coast. The original plan was to spend a day in Canada. Gary applied and received his passport. We had a hard time finding out where is parent's were born, but we got it.
We met at a Mexican restaurant for dinner, then over to the Breckenridge's house for planning. There are six of us going on this trip that have committed and we are all on trikes. Gary and Marty really want to see the redwoods and in order to do this we had to cut out the Canada leg. If we kept the Canada leg in, then we would have to cut out the redwoods. The whole idea of this trip was to see the redwoods.
The problem we ran in to was vacation time for us working stiffs. The Breckenridges are retired but the rest of us are still working. Gary only gets 10 days of vacation a year. I get five weeks of vacation a year, so an extra day wouldn't hurt me in the least. Our friend Vicky gets 15 days a year and her husband Marty can only take a limited number of days off for vacation. He is self employed in the dry wall business.
The consensus of the group was to save the Canada leg for another trip. We decided that we could take a four day weekend for the Canada trip.
Once we got the days figured out, then we had to figure out the route. Since we will be gone during Labor Day, we decided to hit the coast part after Labor Day. We figure it won't be so busy with people. Along the way we will be traveling through the Columbia River Gorge, along the Oregon coast and up at Oak Harbor we will be taking a ferry. Looking forward to it.
Gary and I are also taking a couple days to go to Deadwood South Dakota with the HOG Chapter for the Gambler's Run. Hoping this year we won't have the rain like last year.
In August, Mom, Jennifer and I are taking our annual girls road trip to Minnesota to visit with Bonnie and family. Kevin and Sam said they would take me to the zoo to see the bears. Jennifer and I would like to spend a day at the Mall of America for some shopping.
In between those times, we will be taking some weekend rides. I did receive an e-mail from Jason today and they are planning a road trip to Idaho, Wyoming and Montana in June. Jason said that they are leaving California on the 16th. Will keep in touch with him for those dates. Will be fun.
2 comments:
I would love to see Oregon. Sounds like a great vacation! But, I think I prefer a mini-van rather than a trike. Wind in my hair, yeah yeah... give me a plush bench seat and a dvd!
Hope the part about Wyo will include coming through Meeteetse. They probably want to do Yellowstone, so can go in in Idaho and come out over here. Or in Mt. Suppose it depends on how much time they have. Keep me posted. Will be good to see them. What do you hear from Robert? How is his school?
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