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 2011
Planning 2011
(April, 2011)
2011 Grand Tour
On
South
Mexico 1
Los
Cabos
On
North
Across the Border
Across the Border, Again!
Continue North to Home (June,
2011)
The Final Three (Aug, 2011)
Mt. St. Helens (Aug 27,
2011)
Mountain Ride and ARC
(Sept. 30, 2011)
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. 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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