We are Bob and Kathy Eggett and
we are based in beautiful Southwestern Washington, USA.
These are
pages of our adventures riding GoldWing motorcycles in North
America, Europe and a small piece of Africa. They are
intended to keep our relatives and friends updated with the
progress of our travels and will be updated at irregular
intervals with our adventures.
Follow along on our adventures
by using the links at the top and side of the pages.
New pages will be announced on this page as
well as being in the menu system. Direct links to each of
the 100 European travel pages are
down below.
New Pages for 2013
Planning 2013-14
Rides 2013
Polar Bear Run
Brookings, OR
Astoria, OR
Agate Beach
OR-500
Yakima, WA
Cowboy Dinner
Tree
Neah Bay, WA
Hood to Coast
Race
Ride for the
Paws
Jeffery &
Helen
Introduction to Us
We started
with a 1980 GoldWing GL1100 (never named). After 95,000
miles we sold it and bought the 1995 GL1500 (The White Dragon,
147,000 miles) and a TimeOut tent trailer. In 1999 we
bought a CycleMate cargo trailer for our trip to
Mexico. In 2006 we shipped
The White Dragon to Europe for three years. In 2007 we
purchased a matching 1995 GL1500 (The White Bear, 25,000 miles)
because we had no bike to ride while we were home from Europe.
In 2008 we wrecked the White Dragon on a rain slick freeway in
the heel of Italy. In November of 2010 we bought a bright
yellow 2003 GL1800 (Lemonade) with ABS and sold the White Bear.
After we wrecked the
White Dragon in Italy in October of 2008 and ended our
European travels we still had the matching white GL1500 at home
to ride. It is the bike we took to
Alaska with Dirk and Hetty (our friends from Holland).
Now we have the yellow GL1800 and Kathy decided to name it
LEMONADE because of the trials we had during our European
adventures. Her motto is "If life deals you lemons, go
ride Lemonade".
We have traveled over all of
North America west of the Great Plains and the Black Hills of
South Dakota where we attended the
Sturgis Rally.
During the last 30 years we have toured points from Fairbanks,
Alaska, to Guadalajara, Mexico in North America; and in Europe,
from the Ring of Kerry in Ireland to the shore of the Black Sea
in Bulgaria and from the Sahara Desert in Morocco to Nordkapp,
Norway; always on GoldWings.
The White Dragon was white and
was normally draggin' a small trailer, hence the name "White
Dragon". As you can see from the picture (above) at the
mall show we still tow the CycleMate trailer but now it is
yellow to match the new bike. In 2011 we travelled the
length of Baja to complete our list of areas west of the Great
Plains.
Viewers interested in the European tour should
probably start with the
Planning page and go on to
Plan B and
Plan C and
Plan D and
Plan E, this will
explain what happened to our plans. After that one can
explore the Europe and
N. America (including
Alaska) pages. The story of our
burned house is on the Fire! page in the
About Us section.
Under the
Links, Quotes, Fun page there
are some pages of interesting quotes on
travel, retirement,
motorcycles,
beer and a
Fun & Games page that have been
gathered from a variety of sources.
Email us at:
Lemonade@bobkatsjaunt.com.
Direct Links to
the European Pages in order by year.
(or use the menus at left and top)
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