Timelines and trip planning
May. 9th, 2010 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI don't plan to rush the trip, though I can't (if I am to get the visiting done which I would like to do) dawdle much. I figure with about ten hours of riding/resting a day I can move about 600 miles per day.
Pushing, on a motorcycle, isn't really something one ought to do. If the traffic is moving, and the conditions good I might make 750, but not much more. The itinerary (as it is now) misses Chicago (I'd meant to go to Ottawa by way of Chicago, but things changed, and now I want to go to New York), and the upper west; in exchange I get to cross all of southern Canada.
As I hammer out the details, I'll post them. Right now it's 40 to Tennesee; and a week budgeted. I'll probably need not more than 5 days, but better to plan long, and arrive early, then feel rushed, and try to push. From Tennessee it's up to New York, and I will probably want to lay over in DC.
A few days, perhaps as much as a week, in New York, and then to Ottawa. New York to Ottawa looks to be one days worth of riding (about 500 miles). The TransCandada is a longer route then taking I-90, but not much longer. Google gives me 57 hours driving time, which is about four days, so (as with the trip to Tenn), I'll be budgeting a week.
Then some time in Seattle, and down to Portland then to home.
It all feels both very concrete, and a trifle nebulous.
Pushing, on a motorcycle, isn't really something one ought to do. If the traffic is moving, and the conditions good I might make 750, but not much more. The itinerary (as it is now) misses Chicago (I'd meant to go to Ottawa by way of Chicago, but things changed, and now I want to go to New York), and the upper west; in exchange I get to cross all of southern Canada.
As I hammer out the details, I'll post them. Right now it's 40 to Tennesee; and a week budgeted. I'll probably need not more than 5 days, but better to plan long, and arrive early, then feel rushed, and try to push. From Tennessee it's up to New York, and I will probably want to lay over in DC.
A few days, perhaps as much as a week, in New York, and then to Ottawa. New York to Ottawa looks to be one days worth of riding (about 500 miles). The TransCandada is a longer route then taking I-90, but not much longer. Google gives me 57 hours driving time, which is about four days, so (as with the trip to Tenn), I'll be budgeting a week.
Then some time in Seattle, and down to Portland then to home.
It all feels both very concrete, and a trifle nebulous.
