Have you ever wanted to live vicariously through Robert de Forest? Your time has come! He's going to Get On His Bad Motor Scooter And Ride, and he's documenting the process here.
Many have already heard the exciting news: in March of 2018 Robert decided to go on a road trip on his motorcycle. He will post a detailed plan elsewhere in this project space, but the short version goes, a little something .. uh like this:
- 2-4 weeks
- move someone else into my place to get out of lease-breaking terms
- find safe places for irreplaceable stuff I want to keep and deliver stuff to those places as checked baggage when I visit said places
- give away irreplaceable stuff I don't want to keep
- throw out replaceable stuff nobody wants
- 1-2 weeks
- "short" motorcycle rides around the Pacific North West to make sure my bike and I are ready for this and to address any surprises.
- thenceforth
- Too Hot? ride North
- Too Cold? ride South
- Just Right? ride East
- Reached the Atlantic? repeat with East/West swapped
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It is possible I will wander into Canada in the summer or Mexico in the winter. That's fine.
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I'm looking forward to seeing lots of non-Seattle folks in person over the course of the trip.
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I will publish updates in this GitHub repository. If you want to subscribe to updates point your news reader (I use InoReader) at this feed.
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If you want to plan for me to visit you, one option is to file an Issue against this project. "Bug: not enough Robert in my town!"
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I hope/plan to publish my location and some GoPro video both for safety and the amusement of whoever really does want to live vicariously through me. If I stop updating and my location stops changing, maybe something happened to me? Let's hope it's something good?
- See the country, and possibly the world if I decide to head into Canada or Mexico!
- File bug reports about how I don't have enough representation of your favorite thing!
- Make fun of my aversion to risk as demonstrated by my contradictory preference for less-busy throughfairs where I might not be found until too late if I have an accident!