Very interesting and I get what you say about having to try and stay tuned-in on those long straight roads - sill minor comment but there was a complete absence of litter on those roads - it shames us in the way drivers here just chuck crap out their windows
Well that’s likely because of an almost complete absence of people The trucks tend to stick to the interstate so those smaller roads are empty Their driving on the interstate is pretty dangerous I must say and the quality of driving in general is quite low in the USA They’d break into a cold sweat if confronted with a tight UK road Don’t know if it comes over well but the road surface is Er Variable I do agree about litter on our roads In general all three of us rode at some of the US journey and we all preferred riding in Europe to be completely honest That’s not to dampen down the journey which was a true adventure We visited some US cities later and there was litter aplenty And a truly terrible amount of people sleeping rough That is perhaps what struck us the most especially when we crossed Europe a week after our return The difference was very striking
Highway hypnosis is the reason for the rumble strips alongside the road, they wake you up before you drive off the shoulder. Driving from Chicago to Yellowstone a few years back, there was a spot on I90 where I took one photo out the front of the car and another out the back, dead straight road without another vehicle in sight either direction.
As we said in the video really You can hear the rumble strips in action when we pulled over Was very glad when we cleared it and caught sight of Yellowstone Certainly made us appreciate riding in Europe to be honest
Sort of similar to the Hay Plains in southern NSW, except that the Hay Plains is generally brown, not green. The insects look more like grasshoppers; locusts, here at least, are larger and leave a large, creamy, greasy and sticky stain on the front of the vehicle; very difficult to remove, so best done using engine cleaner at the carwash. We have to put shade-cloth across the radiator grille, or it'll rapidly become blocked and the vehicle will overheat. I used to live in a wheat/barley-growing region and the locusts were pretty common.
Well when we traveled by the southern route riding west to east later I’m the trip we didn’t see green grass for literally weeks The whole place smelled like a high loft We thought it little wonder that there were so many wild fires this year
@@bikerdood1100 Yes, the drier parts of southern USA are very similar to parts of South Australia, NSW and West Aust. Come off US 395 at Lone Pine and head for Death Valley on State 136, you'd swear that, apart from the nearby Sierra Nevada, you were in South Oz. Our wildfires in Oz are mainly in the forested areas, though grass fires can occur almost anywhere.
I read it in the mid Seventies when I had a “Fizzie” and then a KH250. I never understood the book then. Then I re-read it in the early 2000’s. I still really never “got it”. To much deep meaningful bullshit about parenthood. Which has fortunately passed me by. My vague recollection is that Phaedras is his alter ego? But most amusingly I bought it as a kid because I wanted to do my own motorcycle maintenance - short changed for nearly 50 years lol. Faulty handy with spanner’s, but certainly not a dreamer…..
Very interesting and I get what you say about having to try and stay tuned-in on those long straight roads - sill minor comment but there was a complete absence of litter on those roads - it shames us in the way drivers here just chuck crap out their windows
Well that’s likely because of an almost complete absence of people
The trucks tend to stick to the interstate so those smaller roads are empty
Their driving on the interstate is pretty dangerous I must say and the quality of driving in general is quite low in the USA
They’d break into a cold sweat if confronted with a tight UK road
Don’t know if it comes over well but the road surface is
Er
Variable
I do agree about litter on our roads
In general all three of us rode at some of the US journey and we all preferred riding in Europe to be completely honest
That’s not to dampen down the journey which was a true adventure
We visited some US cities later and there was litter aplenty
And a truly terrible amount of people sleeping rough
That is perhaps what struck us the most especially when we crossed Europe a week after our return
The difference was very striking
Highway hypnosis is the reason for the rumble strips alongside the road, they wake you up before you drive off the shoulder. Driving from Chicago to Yellowstone a few years back, there was a spot on I90 where I took one photo out the front of the car and another out the back, dead straight road without another vehicle in sight either direction.
As we said in the video really
You can hear the rumble strips in action when we pulled over
Was very glad when we cleared it and caught sight of Yellowstone
Certainly made us appreciate riding in Europe to be honest
Sort of similar to the Hay Plains in southern NSW, except that the Hay Plains is generally brown, not green. The insects look more like grasshoppers; locusts, here at least, are larger and leave a large, creamy, greasy and sticky stain on the front of the vehicle; very difficult to remove, so best done using engine cleaner at the carwash. We have to put shade-cloth across the radiator grille, or it'll rapidly become blocked and the vehicle will overheat. I used to live in a wheat/barley-growing region and the locusts were pretty common.
Well when we traveled by the southern route riding west to east later I’m the trip we didn’t see green grass for literally weeks
The whole place smelled like a high loft
We thought it little wonder that there were so many wild fires this year
@@bikerdood1100 Yes, the drier parts of southern USA are very similar to parts of South Australia, NSW and West Aust. Come off US 395 at Lone Pine and head for Death Valley on State 136, you'd swear that, apart from the nearby Sierra Nevada, you were in South Oz. Our wildfires in Oz are mainly in the forested areas, though grass fires can occur almost anywhere.
you should read the classic novel, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
😂
Well it’s the riding that’s make us crazy
The maintenance is easy
@@bikerdood1100 that book reminds me of your travels, same environments.
I read it in the mid Seventies when I had a “Fizzie” and then a KH250. I never understood the book then.
Then I re-read it in the early 2000’s. I still really never “got it”. To much deep meaningful bullshit about parenthood. Which has fortunately passed me by. My vague recollection is that Phaedras is his alter ego?
But most amusingly I bought it as a kid because I wanted to do my own motorcycle maintenance - short changed for nearly 50 years lol. Faulty handy with spanner’s, but certainly not a dreamer…..
When you get to West Virginia you'll be happy on that bike. There's not a straight road in the whole state!. Lol
Bliss 😂
Well John Denver did say that it was almost heaven