I plan on writing this up when the time comes but figured to do alittle prequal to the expedition. There was an excellent article in Toyota trails a few years ago in which an extended family did a trek across parts of africa with an fj45 troopy and 3 or 4 motorcycles. that article has always stuck in my mind.
basically this is the low down. My fathers side of the family has a family reunion just outside of Ithica NY on the 3rd week end of july every year. one of my great Uncles owns a fair chunk of land and as long as he does not build anything permenant his taxes stay low. that hasn't stopped him from putting in a grass tennis court and a variety of other odd ball things but the roads are dirt and nothing is permenant .
so last november my Dad bought a BMW Dakar FS650 and rides for a couple hours every morning unless it is snowing. So he convinced my brother who has a Beull that he uses to comute to work on. to ride with him to the reunion this year. RI to NY and back. basically 2 days up there 3 days there and 2 days back. when it became evident much to my Dad's dismay that they were guna need more than they could carry on there bikes I was called upon to run my fj62 as a support vehicle.
well that gave me a perfect excuse to by a roof top tent and some other stuff. my brother and I wanted to camp the whole way and have convinced my dad this would be the way to go.
so as the expedition itnery stands right now we will be taking back roads from RI to Ithica and stopping at a camp site the first night in the Poconos <sp> somewhere then making it to the family camp an home basing out of there at which point we will switch to more dirt roads and my brother will ride with me in that he has more of a street bike. we will go visit some of my ancesters old dewells some of which are ruins in the woods then take 2 days to get back via back roads.
so my fj62 is going to now be sleeping 3 for 6 nights. I am still on the fence on whether to do the trek with or with out the trailer. having it at camp would be a huge plus and would make camp life that much more civilized in the extra camp gear we could bring but I will be trying to keep pace with motorcycles and a loaded down cruiser will already be slowthe added weight of the trailer might be too much. we will see I think I am going to mount the tent up top on the cruiser and see how easy it is to get in and out and base my decision on that.
I am hoping that the outcome of this expedition is more of them. my brother is already planning on switching to a dual sport bike prolly a KTM so the future treks will most likely have more of an offroad focus but we are thining a run to northern Maine or something like that.
my plan is to discuss planning stuff on this thread then post up a expedition report during if possible or after the trek.
jp
oh I figured our trek needed a logo and I am boored at work today
basically this is the low down. My fathers side of the family has a family reunion just outside of Ithica NY on the 3rd week end of july every year. one of my great Uncles owns a fair chunk of land and as long as he does not build anything permenant his taxes stay low. that hasn't stopped him from putting in a grass tennis court and a variety of other odd ball things but the roads are dirt and nothing is permenant .
so last november my Dad bought a BMW Dakar FS650 and rides for a couple hours every morning unless it is snowing. So he convinced my brother who has a Beull that he uses to comute to work on. to ride with him to the reunion this year. RI to NY and back. basically 2 days up there 3 days there and 2 days back. when it became evident much to my Dad's dismay that they were guna need more than they could carry on there bikes I was called upon to run my fj62 as a support vehicle.
well that gave me a perfect excuse to by a roof top tent and some other stuff. my brother and I wanted to camp the whole way and have convinced my dad this would be the way to go.
so as the expedition itnery stands right now we will be taking back roads from RI to Ithica and stopping at a camp site the first night in the Poconos <sp> somewhere then making it to the family camp an home basing out of there at which point we will switch to more dirt roads and my brother will ride with me in that he has more of a street bike. we will go visit some of my ancesters old dewells some of which are ruins in the woods then take 2 days to get back via back roads.
so my fj62 is going to now be sleeping 3 for 6 nights. I am still on the fence on whether to do the trek with or with out the trailer. having it at camp would be a huge plus and would make camp life that much more civilized in the extra camp gear we could bring but I will be trying to keep pace with motorcycles and a loaded down cruiser will already be slowthe added weight of the trailer might be too much. we will see I think I am going to mount the tent up top on the cruiser and see how easy it is to get in and out and base my decision on that.
I am hoping that the outcome of this expedition is more of them. my brother is already planning on switching to a dual sport bike prolly a KTM so the future treks will most likely have more of an offroad focus but we are thining a run to northern Maine or something like that.
my plan is to discuss planning stuff on this thread then post up a expedition report during if possible or after the trek.
jp
oh I figured our trek needed a logo and I am boored at work today
