Met with the Doc today. The xrays show my knee is bone on bone. Injections would only provide temporary relief so I am waiting for the replacement to be scheduled. Hopefully they can get it done in April. He also said no bike riding for 4 months.
So as of now the trip to Oregon is a Truck trip. So sad
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Sorry to hear it Steve. I know you been planning the trip for a while. Life throws us lots of curve balls. You just got to keep swinging.
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They finally called yesterday and put me down for 12 May Surgery. A lot later in the year than I had hoped for. I asked them to mark me in red as a fill in candidate for any cancellations. They asked when and I said from next week on! Hopefully I can get lucky and make this happen earlier than May.
Good news is that I actually got the Wife to spend a few hours sitting next to me planning the trip. It is still going to be a great run and will include "Most" of what I wanted to do on the bike.
Westbound will be 5 days out with one easy day in Colorado hitting some of her old haunts. The first 2 days will be the worst of the whole trip. Serious slab burn of about 1750 miles between them. Once we hit the mountains it gets more enjoyable.
Eastbound looks like 10 days including 1 day in the North California Redwoods, 1.5 days at Crater, and a day in Louisville visiting a dear (to my Wife) old Neighbor that is on the decline. Routing will be over Lolo pass down to Mammoth Hot Springs and across the Grand Loop road to Beartooth and over that to Red Lodge. Then down to Cody and the southern half of the Burgess loop then over to the Wildlife loop in Custer. We should hit the wildlife loop about 10 days after the end of the Sturgis rally.
The route seems to be fairly nailed down so it is time to start working the Hotel reservations.
"Agreement is not a requirement for Respect" CDR Michael Smith USN (Ret) 2017
"The book is wrong, this whole Conclusion is Fallacious" River Tam
"Yea I do dance awkwardly, and I am having more fun than you" Taylor Swift
2008 GL1800 IIIA "TH3DOG"
1984 GL1200 Standard
1975/6/7/8/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
Psst. oh and by the way CHANGE YOUR BELTS!!!!
in the Redwoods there is the avenue of the giants (old 101). great drive and really not much traffic
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rcmatt007 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:18 am
in the Redwoods there is the avenue of the giants (old 101). great drive and really not much traffic
That is very high on our list. I already have a hotel reservation in Garberville Ca. Plan is to drive down the slab then the next day take Redwood drive and the Avenue of the Giants back north then turn inland to go to Crater for 2 nights. After that we will start our way back east.
"Agreement is not a requirement for Respect" CDR Michael Smith USN (Ret) 2017
"The book is wrong, this whole Conclusion is Fallacious" River Tam
"Yea I do dance awkwardly, and I am having more fun than you" Taylor Swift
2008 GL1800 IIIA "TH3DOG"
1984 GL1200 Standard
1975/6/7/8/9 Arthur Fulmer Dressed Road bike
1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike
Psst. oh and by the way CHANGE YOUR BELTS!!!!