Countdown to March 29 Launch

I am embarking on what I hope will be a 4 month, 17,000 mile motorcycle ride through the US and parts of Mexico and Canada to visit family and friends and to benefit Children International.  Please consider supporting me – learn more here Will's Charity Ride for Children International - PledgeIt

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Flexibility...

is the ability of a joint to move through a normal range of motion without pain. (Well as my 67 years have progressed, I can be described with that ability less and less.)

However, as it relates to this charity ride, ¨the ability to be easily modified or willingness to change or compromise.¨  Yes, there is that.  I have had my heart set on camping at Gooseneck Park in southern Utah for months.  But,… not this time.  Maybe I can work it in when I am headed back west in the summer. 

As it turns out, there is a storm that will arrive tomorrow, the day before I launch off that will sit over parts of California, Arizona, and southern Utah that look like I could be riding in the rain for 4 to 5 days straight, with temperatures in some cases as low as in the upper 20s. And so while I do expect to ride in the rain during the next 4 months, if I can modify the itinerary to avoid it, I will. This was the initial itinerary for the beginning of the ride.

This itinerary represents Plan D. It minimizes the potential for meaningful rain down to 1 or 2 days and avoids the temperatures approaching freezing. Instead of crossing into Mexico at Nogales, I will cross earlier at Mexicali and transit down the Baja peninsula and take a 9 1-2 hour ferry from La Paz, BCS to Topolobampo, Sinaloa. From there my approach to Creel will also be modified.