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Full Belly and a Buzz Tour
Where the rubber hits the road and the beer hits the belly.
FBaaBT Trips
2010 (no group ride)
Jim D & Ken go to Alaska
(20 days -9,247 kms)
2006 (June 23 to 29)
Where: USA… Reno
Who: Steve, Curt, Ken, Jim K
Mileage: 3,345 kms
Highlights: Steve, Curt play in the sand dunes. Jim K finds old car graveyard.
2013 (June 21 - June 30)
Where: USA… Yellowstone
Who: Jim D, Curt, Dale, Steve, Ken
Mileage: 4,200 kms
Highlights: Old Faithful, Jackson Hole
More: Jim D & Ken add another 7 days.
2012 (June 24 - June 30)
Where: USA… Reno
Who: Jim D, Curt, Ken, Dale, Steve
Mileage: 3,345 kms
Highlights: Drinking at the shoe shine station, Curt buying Harley boots
More: Jim D & Ken add another 5 days
2011 (June 30 - July 3)
Where: Canada… Whistler, Kamloops , Kootenays
Who: Jim D, Curt, Ken, Steve
Mileage: 2,026 kms
Highlights : Steve and wooden bridge, Curt’s speedo breaks following Jim into Penticton.
More: Jim & Ken drive around North America. Aug 14 - Oct 21 (70 days - 121 gas station fills - 1106.6 liters of gas - 22,916 kms
2009 (June 21 to July 1)
Where: USA… LakeTahoe (4 bikes) to Las Vegas (2 bikes) to home (1 bike)
Who: Curt, Dale, Ken, Steve
Milage: 5,230 kms
Highlights - Curt’s battery failing in Oregon, car show in Tahoe, (Steve/Ken) Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, L.A. (the day MJ dies), Ken shuts down the Golden Gate, operation in Eureka, fly home leave bike.
2008 (June 28 to July 1)
Where: Canada… BC Destination Hwy Trip via the Kootenays
Who: Steve, Curt, Barry, Ken, Dale, Jim K, Jim D (first day only)
Mileage: 1,765 kms
Highlights - Barry crashing, Curt’s battery failing, Dale’s bike needing pushes.
Did destination hyws # 1, 2, 5 & 9
2007 (June 21 to 28)
Where: USA… Reno & San Francisco
Who: Steve, Curt, Jim K, Ken
Mileage: 4,202 kms
Highlights - "Jus Bros" in Winnemucca, Jim K got lost just outside of Yosemite National Park, Fisherman's Wharf.
2014 (June 21 - June 30)
Where: USA… Sturgis / Mt. Rushmore
Who: Curt, Steve, Jim D, Ken, Dale, and our newest recruit Kevin
Mileage: 5,222 kms for 4……… 4,800 kms for 2
Highlights: Good deal on Tequila (Steve and Ken go nuts), Omak twice, Devil’s tower,
Needles Hwy, cool bar with peanut shells on the floor and the best pizza,
More: Curt and Kev drive 1100 kms in one day to catch up to the boys,
2017 June 17- June 24
Where: USA… Omak / Madras / Susanville / Virginia City / Red Bluff / Brookings / Astoria
Who: Curt,Jim D, Ken, Kevin
Jim and Ken show up with new 2017 Harley Davidson motorcycles
Highlights: 2nd day riding Jim almost hit by a big road Turkey Vulture
● Riding into Susanville we all drove through a mud tornado with almost zero visibility
● In Virginia City at the Red Dog Saloon we had a jug of beer on the table before 12 noon
● Left Virginia City on route to the coast and only made Red Bluff - temperature became
too hot to drive in. Found a motel with pool and stayed there until the 24 pac of beer was
Consumed
● Red Bluff to coast (Hwy 36) Incredible twisty ride to Fortuna. No traffic
2018
Where: Canada, Alberta , Boring
Who: Curt, Kev, Steve, Dale, Jim, Pete
Highlights: Met in Squamish , Pete’s virgin ride with Fbaabt. Ps…. I don't think he is a real virgin.
Low lights: No Ken (family stuff) Curt has a bald tire, hangs with Mike and Sylvia for a couple of days to find a tire. drives home on a used tire. Curt is very happy to be home.
2019 June 22 - June 29
Where: Lillooet / Valemount / Radium / Browning / Missoula / Lewiston / Omak
Who: Kev, Steve, Dale, Jim, Ken, Alex
Curt drives home south as group leaves Lillooet northward
● Steve and ? gets blipped by a red flashing light entering Valement
● Alex gets windshield cracked by massive stone thrown from truck
● Send Steve to Regina after we all depart towards the US border
● Group dines and sleeps at the best Browning establishments the town had to offer us
● Group stops by giant 40 foot steer for photo op going into Missoula
● Ken photographs all the stagarded moving motorcycle driving the “Old Spiral Highway”
outside of Lewiston, up then down
● As we ride towards Omak, Ken gets welcomed by the State Trooper into his county
with a complimentary flash of red lights for the Canadians
3482 Kms
Ken & Jim’s fall trip leaves Aug 24 and back Sept 28.
Ride to Milwaukee and Nashville - sit down with Willie G at lunch
12,648 Km’s over 36 days
2016 June 26 - July 3
Where: USA , Reno
Who: Jim D, Curt, Kev
Ken shows up in car (no riding motorcycle with
shoulder issue
Ken pays for first round of margaritas at Omak Mexican Ranco Checo’s
Jim, Curt and Kev drink many beer
2015
Where: USA
Who: Curt, Kev
Highlights: Reno ,Oakland Athletics Baseball,
Low lights: Unbearable heat on the the highway from Reno to San Francisco
2006-2019