Meg & I went to visit her sister A who drove a little north to meet us at a cozy breakfast place in Trinidad, just about 30 minutes south of where we had been camping at Big Lagoon, a local park of Humbolt County, for $30 per night right next to the lagoon, though that was windy & noisy but also very beautiful. This was the first time I met A after having heard about her for many years & she brought her 12-year-old son T with her. I had a vegan sandwich packed with high fiber veggies & Meg had a lovely, tasty bagel covered in yummy goods of some kind. I drank a relatively sour espresso shot while Meg had a 12 oz drip coffee. We headed out at 9:15am to go North on Highway 101
We stopped 3 times at rest stops along the route to go pee, mostly along I5 North
We stopped for gas 1 time at an Indian Reservation called Elk Lodge (Casino) (something) where the gasoline was only $3.50 a gallon, whereas gasoline was selling for $5.89 per gallon in Trinidad. T had told us that was the cheapest place to get E10 gasoline since he & his father F take custom made DIY sand-rails on a custom-made trailer that F fabricated towed behind his truck to Coos Bay Oregon where the sand dunes are best & told me that Steve's ATV the best place to rent one during our warm summer road trip in July 2025.
The breakfast was pleasant, and A paid for it thankfully, a kind gesture that made me feel warm & fuzzy as we took off to head home. Meg was operating her iPhone 12 mini with Apple Car Play more or less as navigator in the front passenger seat. When I asked how long it would take to get home, she resisted telling me, knowing it would take the entire day.
We got home at 8:45 PM, which is astonishing given the number of total stops for sightseeing, video capture, to get water, to get coffee, to go tinkle, to refuel. We talked about how driving over 700 miles in one day would be impossible even in the record setting BEV sedan that can do 530 miles on one charge. We drove 1380 miles net on this road trip, not all at ones, and Meg drove for about an hour yesterday to take the load off me, since I drove the entire rest of the miles & needed a break :)
I could have never ridden our 2020 Yamah MT03 more than 400 miles in one day, the level of saddle soreness I experienced or rider fatigue after riding it from Issaquah to her cousins house in Roseberg Oregon, required almost 3 days of not riding staying in Roseberg before my hips, knees, ankles, feet, back, shoulders, neck, all the areas of rider fatigue including both wrists & elbows. I think a practical highway distance at freeway speeds in America on a motorcycle is 2 or 4 hours per day max, which at 70 miles per hour is 280 miles max or 140 miles conservative. Its easily possible with less fatigue to drive our 2022 Corolla Hybrid more than 800 miles, so car camping long distances from home faster or more practical than a similar solo or two up motorcycle camping road journey.
More smiles per miles the main idea, on a motorcycle the air, wind, fumes, smells, everything is more engaging, including wind buffeting or buffering that shoves you around a lot at highway speeds on the MT03. I would need to furnish it with a large aftermarket windscreen to reduce riding fatique from wind buffering & upgrade the saddle with something more comfortable than the stock operation. In other ways the MT03 more for city commuting and local low speed twisty roads, not long highway steady state cruising, I just wanted to test it & myself to see if I could do it. Meg followed me for Safety in her 10 Prius III & saved my life by honking at me to keep a class 8 semitruck from merging into me & causing a major accident.
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