Day 1...

almost didn't happen.  Went out on day 0 to take bike to the gas station and fill her up for the first leg, and bike refused to start.  After much cursing and fiddling around it was determined that gas was not getting to the carburetors.  So futzed around to no avail and finally gave up and went to bed. 

During the nocturnal hours of not sleeping Dan thought of one more thing to try. So the morning of day 1 started with bypassing the fuel cutoff relay and hot wiring the fuel pump, to try and determine the source of the issue. Turn the key and can hear the fuel pump running, hit the start button and bike starts right up. progress.  so plug the relay back in and bike still does what she should, starts and runs.  so prognosis is either a formerly loose connection or a flaky relay. Will pick up spare relay when we get a chance, it's of course not a standard size one and a Honda dealer will likely need to be seen.

So back to trip on, just starting a little later.  Day 1 consisted of riding a somewhat scenic route across WA to visit family in Spokane.  We'll be here a couple nights, so may not have an update tomorrow.

Bike ready to go.. finally...

Total Miles day 1: 330

pre tour posting

In a very late followup to the B&B tour of 2012, we are happy to present the 2019 PB Tour where we will travel the country sampling all the great peanut butters in the land!  Well, ok maybe not, we are firmly in the skippy super chuck camp, and the PB in this tour refers to pinball!  We will travel the 48 states (well maybe like 30 of them) playing pinball in as many states as possible.

OK seriously this time we are just going on a road trip and plan on visiting a few places we have not been to before.  To date we have ridden the motorcycle from our home near Seattle through 43 of the lower 48 states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Here is a map showing the longer routes of past travels.  The two longest (red and blue) ones were 2-up (motorcycle term for 2 riders on 1 motorcycle) while the shorter ones were solo. Can you spot the 5 states yet to visit?

There will be beer and pinball and reubens and other activities as we find them along the way.  There are a few planned stops but mostly it will be a day to day thing.  Mostly we take the back highways and byways and avoid big cities and freeways. We obviously need some more north-south pathways through the eastern half of the country.

Fortunately we both work in schools and have summer vacation that allows us to take long trips, but unfortunately it also means we will be doing this trip mostly July in the heat and humidity.  Oh well.

I'll try to post something up after each days travel with how far we've ridden, where we are, and if we did anything fun that day.  Maybe even a few pics.