2011-East Coast Trip

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Lennie and I have finalized our plans for an East Coast bike trip. We will be spending 12 days on the road, and will visit 13 different states. We plan to leave home on Friday, September 2nd, and return home on Tuesday, September 13th. Our current route plan covers roughly 2400 miles.

Here are the states we plan to visit during this trip (13 states):

Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.

As I have mentioned before, one of our biking goals is to visit every one of the lower 48 states. This is our third summer of riding toward accomplishing that goal. Upon completion of this trip, we will have visited 44 of the lower 48 states in 3 summers on our Goldwing! Next year we plan to get those final 4 (Nevada, California, Florida, Arkansas). Below is a map of the states we will have covered after the completion of this trip.

We will also visit one National Park on this trip, Acadia National Park in Maine.

As with previous trips, we plan to use our personal satellite rescue and tracking beacon. It is called a Spot Tracker. The Spot unit contains a GPS receiver, and a built in transmitter, which sends location signals to low earth orbit satellites. This means it can be used anywhere in the world, and does not depend on cell phone coverage! It also has an SOS feature, which when activated, will cause the monitoring company to send out a full blown search and rescue effort. If they see that you are on the water (like in a sinking boat), they will send out the Coast Guard, if you are in mountainous terrain (perhaps climbing or hiking), they will send out rescue helicopters, or if you simply drive your Goldwing over the side of a cliff/mountain, they will send out ground rescue teams. Hopefully, we will never have to use that feature! We will always have an active page that shows our current tracking data from the Spot unit. You can find it by looking at the "Current Location" page in the sidebar at the left.

In addition to the Spot tracker, I have added the ability to leave comments. Please feel free to add comments/questions as we make our way through the trip. You can get to the comments page by using the links at the top of our daily pages, or by choosing the "Trip Comments" page from the sidebar on the left.