CalScot wrote:
I'm planning a wee trip.
About time...
From California across the Gulf States to Florida. Down to Key West, up the Eastern Seaboard to Maine then West to the Pacific North West and back down Pacific Coast Highway home.
The tentative route is about 12,000 miles with excursions as I'll likely do most of it on side roads. I plan on stopping every couple days for a day or two off as I feel like it and explore my way across this great country. I reckon it will take me about 4-5 weeks and possibly more. I'm looking at late July when I will start off.
It is a lot of fun.
That's the way to do it - just get in the car and go. In my trips I've generally had at least a general route and schedule, so people would know where to meet me. It is a habit I got into when I picked up my Atom at Brammo in 2006 - there were so few Atoms around that lots of people wanted to meet up and see the car. I traveled 7700 miles just getting from Brammo in Oregon to New York City.
Ideas and suggestions where I should go and things to see would also be great.
A couple ideas on places to visit if you've never been there in an Atom -
o Yellowstone National Park - the combination of an Atom and the geothermal features is really neat.
o Bighorn National Forest - Route 14 up there could be called
"America's Stelvio".
o
Tail of the Dragon
You could also take a look at my
Atom Across America blog for some other places to visit.
I would be great to meet up with Atom owners along the way. Maybe some could join in for small portions of the trip. Side detours to local car meets/rally's or historic or interesting places are great and sort of what I was hoping to incorporate into the trip. Ideas and suggestions where I should go and things to see would also be great.
I'll be glad to show you some of the backwoods roads in my area. There's one that is sort of my "personal test track", which due to various complicated reasons has a default 50MPH speed limit, despite a number of hairpin turns and off-camber corners. Kind of like the redwood road we took during the WCA II coastal cruise.
I can also show you my top-secret lair, though since it is in the middle of a dense urban area, you wouldn't want to overnight the Atom here - it would probably be stolen. [My 2-car garage is full w/ BMW and Atom, plus my tenant's motorcycle and car].
