4 Corners Tour USA 2011

Day 7 Photo Set

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:52:45 -0700

Photos from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Madawaska, Maine, United States

Heavy rain, but great country to ride through.

Glad to be out of the French speaking Quebec. We made some fuel-up stops and could not talk to anyone. I pulled out my iPhone with our travel map and shows it to one older guy looking at us as we fueled up in the rain.

When we got our rain gear on there was a cute little girl (age around 6) interested in what we were doing, but again, we could not talk to her.

Fireworks over Ventura

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:51:12 -0700

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Fireworks over Ventura

Total Miles Of Our Tour

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:49:31 -0700

12,139 miles

To see the path we took to get this miles, the best way is to view our tour map here.

Note: About 8,168 of our total miles account for the SCMA (Southern California Motorcycling Associating) “USA Four Corners Tour” award that we qualified for. These are the miles accrued starting at our first corner check-in of Madawaska, Maine (day 8 for us) to our last check-in of San Ysidro, CA.

Day 13 Photo Set

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:57:35 -0700

Day 13 Photo Set:

Photos taken between Miami, Florida and Tifton, Georgia.

Erik dropped his wife off at the Miami airport before sunrise and had a long haul by his lonesome up to Georgia where he reconvined with Kent and Troy.

It was around Lake City, FL that I heard Mike decided to stop doing the tour, rest up, and head due West on his own back home to California.

Day 12 Photo Set

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:45:27 -0700

Day 12 Photo Set:

Photos taken on the Florida Keys.

Chickens!

Key West, Florida was Corner #2 on our USA Four Corner Tour.

Day 11 Photo Set

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:37:59 -0700

Day 11 Photo Set:

Photos taken between Raleigh, NC and Miami, FL.

This was Erik’s longest day of riding clocking in at 799 miles.

The upside is that he was joined by his wife Kathryn. They enjoyed some fresh Georgia peaches on their long haul to Miami.

Day 10 Photo Set

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:28:00 -0700

Day 10 Photo Set:

Some photos between Washington, DC and Raleigh, NC.

This set includes the most expensive photo taken on the tour, a photo of “Friend of the Bike” Officer Singleton from Brunswick County, Virginia valued at over $547.

Plus photos of Erik with his friends and giving their kids their first ride on a motorcycle. These are the truly priceless photos of the day.

Erik Recognized as USA Four Corner Tour Finisher

errorik — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:17:00 -0700

The SCMA USA Four Corner Motorcycle Tour website has been updated to include Erik as the 73rd official 2011 Finisher.

Erik is the 11th Idahoan to finish the tour according to the website’s finishers log which dates back to 1983.

The tour is run by the Southern California Motorcycling Association (SCMA) and is recognized by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) as a sanctioned event.

Here is a list of all Idahoans to date to have completed the tour:

1987 - Kyle Mabe (Post Falls, ID)
1989 - Bill Pharness (St. Marie’s, ID)
1990 - Robert Palmer (Lewiston, ID)
1994 - Billie & Gloria Cothern (Dalton Gardens, ID)
1997 - Darrel Beamish (Nampa, ID)
1997 - Ron Brown (Boise, ID)
1997 - Eldon Janzen (Nampa, ID)
1997 - Paul Ambeau Jr. (Homedale, ID)
2007 - George June (Post Falls, ID)
2011 - Erik Goodlad (Boise, ID)

Day 9 Photo Set

errorik — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:32:00 -0700

Day 9 Photo Set:

Some photos taken between Hartford, CT and Washington, DC including New York City, NY.

In DC Erik met some “Friends of the Bike”.

Congrats to Kent and Troy for being recognized as SCMA’s...

errorik — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:47:36 -0700

Congrats to Kent and Troy for being recognized as SCMA’s USA Four Corners Tour 2011’s finishers #71 & #72!

You can see all of 2011’s finishers on SCMA’s official web site for the USA Four Corners Tour.

Day 8 Photo Set

errorik — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:16:00 -0700

Day 8 Photo Set:

Photos from Day 8

There are a lot of photos from the Four Corners Park in Madawaska, Maine. Even though this was the first check-in corner for us, it was kinda the biggest corner. We got the most group photos here, and spent the most time at the park.

The park’s founder Joe LaChance met us at the park and we got to talk for a bit.

Following leaving the park we crossed the border back into Canada and road the Canadian Highway #2 down to the Southern end of Maine and crossed back into the US.

I wish I had photos from this part of the ride, it truly was spectacular.

There was an iPhone security issue a while back where the OS...

errorik — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:28:28 -0700

There was an iPhone security issue a while back where the OS would keep an unencrypted file with months and months of location data on your phone and in your iTunes’ back-up files.

A cool visualization app was made that allows you to see a map of your stored location data.

A bunch of people freaked out and Apple released updates that both encrypted the location data and also shortened the time frame that was retained.

I purposefully stopped updating iTunes and my iPhone’s iOS so these security updates would not be applied before the big trip.

Here is the pay-off… my iPhone’s iPhoneTracker map - post 4 Corners Ride.

The Rumors Are True I am selling the orange 2007 Harley Davidson...

errorik — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:45:00 -0700

The Rumors Are True

I am selling the orange 2007 Harley Davidson Road Glide that I rode during the tour.

It is a great bike that took me across this country and back with relatively no problems.

I consider it my trusty steed. I am quite fond of it and it is a lot of fun to ride, but it is just not my dream bike, and as hard as it is to let her go I best do it sooner than later.

So I am leaving it here in California and Kent will be handling the sale for me (thanks KC!).

Sadly, I will be taking the stickers off the bike shortly after posting this.

For anyone thinking that my wife is forcing me to sell it against my will, the contrary is true, she actually has a great idea for a monument for my bike and the ride that I will post at some point in the distant future when it is complete.

Attention Followers

errorik — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:33:00 -0700

The ride is over.

We have moved past the point where we “live blogged” the best we could while doing the ride to the point where we will being filling in all the holes with more photos and stories and notes from our journey.

So if you continue to follow us you will see lot’s of new postings, some with post-ride updates, some with photos and stories that seem out of order and maybe out of context, but in the end this site will be transformed into a tome - archiving our journeys for us.

We have 1000’s of photos to look through and hours open hours of video and then also I have a near complete capture of our entire ride in a time-lapse video that I need to edit down into segments and prep for posting.

Kent once said that he said it might take him a year to go through what he has. The great thing is that we have a place to put it as we organize it and find the gems we want to remember and share.

Thanks for following us and cheering us on along the way. It’s been a great experience to share with Mike, Troy, Jeff, and Kent. I am very blessed for being able to have done this trip.

Day 23 Miles

errorik — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:56:05 -0700

240.1 miles

Irvine, CA to Irvine, CA via San Ysidro, CA with some detours around the Orange County, California area.

This is the end of me accounting my daily miles.

Note: My miles will differ from Kent/Troy’s. We rode to San Ysidro together, but not the whole day long.

After Thoughts: We made our own trail mix with mixed nuts and...

kcshepley — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:27:00 -0700

After Thoughts:

We made our own trail mix with mixed nuts and MMs. With a little pressure (bungee cord) and a little heat (113 deg. Arizona) the MMs do an excellent job of coating all the nuts with chocolate. My daughter calls this Muddy Buddies. Yum.

San Ysidro, CA - The most Southwestern part of the Contiguous...

errorik — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:30:08 -0700

San Ysidro, CA - The most Southwestern part of the Contiguous United States and our final corner in our 4 Corners Tour.

Regroup for last leg of trip and final corner, San Ysidro,...

errorik — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:39:26 -0700

Regroup for last leg of trip and final corner, San Ysidro, CA.

This is it.

Note: My buddy JB is joining in so he can say, “I was with you til the end”.

Friend of the Bike : Howard from Wisconsin When I first...

errorik — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:17:59 -0700

Friend of the Bike : Howard from Wisconsin

When I first rolled into Crescent City, CA I stopped at the first bit of ocean view to take a look. It’s a beautiful harbor. I snapped some photos and was about to roll out when Howard pulled into the same spot on his bike.

I asked him how it was going and he told me that this was his first time seeing the ocean.

I was blown away.

He said that he had wanted to see the ocean and so he told his boss he was leaving and made it happen.

We talked for a bit and took some photos. I wanted to make sure the moment was captured for him.

I asked him if he was going to take the next step and get in the water. He wasn’t sure, but said that he would like to maybe get his feet in so he could call his daughter and sing the Zac Brown song to her.

Surprise Whale Watching This mother whale swam into a harbor and...

errorik — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:47:14 -0700

Surprise Whale Watching

This mother whale swam into a harbor and gave birth about 2 months ago. The calf has swam out to the ocean already, but the mom is hanging out under this bridge parading around for onlookers like myself.