We headed to the International norton meeting in Wyoming then cut up to Cody WY to see a rodeo, great fun! Across the awesome Hwy 20 and then into Canada, our 13th country this trip. As always issues with the BMW and shops worse than useless. The G650 GS has the potential to be a good bike IF BMW listened and heeded to the customers that actually use them.
It was great to meet up with Dan & Sara in Vancouver who are taking a short break from their worldwide ride www.worldwideride.ca Now we are heading for Prince Rupert to catch the ferry to Haines.
As always fuller story & pics on the blog www.ginoontour.blogspot.com


Cool Norton spotted at the Norton meeting

We hit our first rain in Months.... but 30 minutes later it was sunny again

My first Rodeo (spectating) was an impessive experience

Changing the waterpump in the campsite, not so impressive!!

Scene from Hwy 20 North Washington (brilliant road)

Great to meet up with Dan and Sara again

This is what you need!! Hope!!

When you have one of these!!! Another cool down stop on a busy Highway!!

I am enjoying your ride reports! I ride an 07 f650 and have had a few cooling system problems which I have been able to sort out. If you need help email or PM me
Cal

Cheers Cal, will do
Thanks
Gino

So we have made it to Annchorage, 22000 miles from our start in Buenos Aires, its been a hell of a trip so far but not at the end yet, bike problems again (Damn you Mr BMW) but we will get over it and carry on to our final destination in Miami. The blog has been updated and I apologise for not keeping this trip report up to date but it can be difficult.
More details on the Blog, www.ginoontour.blogspot.com
Or if you can't be bothered our latest video update
All roads lead to the Moon Episode 11 - YouTube

Enjoy!!

So we ended up in Anchorage for two weeks waiting on parts, not good enough Mr BMW!! Or as we now like to call him Broken Motorcycles worldwide! we broke free and made our way out of a very wet and increasingly cold Alaska to Calgary and today back into the Montana USA, cheaper Gas & Liquor so thats good! Now at over 24000 miles and still enjoying it. The whole story and pics on our blog at www.ginoontour.blogspot.com oh and sorry Cal for not looking you up! overheating seems to be fixed now

Apologies for the long delay in updates but there is only so much IT I can cope with on a trip. To briing you up to date we are now in new York City for a week and had some great riding across the USA and Canada to get here. As always pictures are best so here goes;

Indian Pow Wow en route

Impressive outfits and displays

We stopped in Minnieapolis with fellow Adventure rider Kevin Stratton who took me shooting, great fun!


Stopped by the cops! We only got off because he couldn't figure out how to write us a ticket on our UK licences!


Stoppped by Niagra, impressive falls but tacky town!

Another small town, another lunchstop



Impressive skyline of Boston



Fiona & I throwing tea in the harbour



And now New York, Empire state building

We have now done almost 28,000 miles this trip and its been great the whole way (breakdowns excepted!!) The full story and more pics on the Blog
www.ginoontour.blogspot.com

Apologies for letting this thread slide
We completed our trip Early November in Miami and took our bikes to the shipping agent. The ride has been fantastic , 13 Countries, 28 States in the USA 3 Provinces in Canada. We met amazing people all the way.
Our favourite was South America and I'm pretty sure we'll be back sometime to visit old friends and to see the bits we missed.
I'd say to anyone contemplating the trip, be careful what you read, too many people make it out to be more difficult than it is, people are nice everywhere, if you come across an asshole you've been unlucky but its no different from home wherever Home is!
This time last year we were arriving in Ushiaia for Christmas and now we are back in Scotland moaning about the weather and wishing we were still on the trip.
Re ajusting to normality (whatever that is) is hard but I suppose you need the "normal" bits (boring) to make you get off your backside and plan the next one.
It's been a hell of a ride and to those still lucky enough to be on the road, I'm envious, to those like me planning the next one we'll see you on the road. Travelling by motorcycle is addictive so stay away if you don't want an exciting unpredictable life.

The latest is our bikes are still in Miami despite being dropped off at the end of October, not good, a bit of advice, hassle your shipper all the time, my hands off they know what their doing attitude didn't pay off. Looks like it'll be the end of January now before we see them again, three months must be some kind of record!!

Catch you on the road sometime, somewhere
Gino & Fiona
www.ginoontour.blogspot.com