Tuesday, July 14, 2009
WFO-8
This year's WFO is being held in Moscow, ID, site of the very first WFO. WFO is a rally held for owners of Yamaha FJR1300 motorcycles who live in the Western United States.
I've got a route planned out that will get me there and back, and let me visit 12 of the 13 dams I have remaining on this year's Dam Tour. I'm going to revisit the North Scootenay Dike Dam, since I missed it by half a mile on the way back from CFR.
The Dam Tour is put on by a group in Portland every year, where you visit 20 dams in the Oregon/Washington area. At each dam, you take a picture of your motorcycle, a special id placard provided by the Tour organizers, with the dam in the background. I'm trying to visit all 20 dams on the list.
Carole and her friend Mandy are driving up in the 'Vette to visit our friend Cindy in Spokane, and Jeremy is flying up to meet them for a belated Mother's Day visit. Carole was in Spokane over Mother's Day weekend, and Jeremy planned to fly up to meet her then, but had to cancel when the other courier at his work got ill. I'll meet up with everyone over the weekend.
If all goes according to plan, the only dam I'll have left is O'Shaugnessy, which makes the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The current plan is to do a one-day ride in late August as a BBG training ride.
Overnights are in Red Bluff, CA; Redmond, OR; Tumwater, WA; Moscow for three nights; Clarkston, WA (after a ride up to Spokane); and Winnemucca, NV.
Here's the full route plan, which just fits in Google Maps's 26 stop limit:
