From: Ray Davis [raykd6fhn@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 12:02
Subject: USA 4 Corners Ride Photos

We left from San Ysidro CA. on Sunday June 9th 2002 and went back up to 
Orange Co. CA to help with the BAD Ride charity event. After I was released 
from any further assistance with the BAD Ride, Mike and I headed out for 
Blaine WA about 1pm.

That first night out we stayed in Williams CA. The next day Monday June 
10th we made it all the way up to Blaine WA for the second check in and 
then back down to I-90 East of Seattle so we would not have to fight the 
morning traffic in Seattle. Tuesday June 11th we made it to Gillette WY. 
Then Wed. June 12th we stayed the night in LaSalle IL. On Thursday June 
13th we stayed in Watertown NY where we would jump off into Canada and 
follow the St. Lawrence River up I-20 to where we make the turn back 
Southeast to Madawaska ME.

The same day we left Watertown NY we made it all the way to Madawaska ME, 
did the check in documentation and then down to Jim and Donna Goodrich's in 
Dover NH. It made for a very long day and we had to finish the last 100 
miles or so in the rain in the dark. Thank goodness I had the built in cell 
phone on the bike so that Jim could talk us right up to their home. I had 
been there several times before and actually stayed there for 3 weeks one 
year while I toured around the Northeastern area of the US. But it had been 
a year and it was raining and dark, so I might have had a tough time 
finding Jims.

We stayed at Jim's Friday night June 14th and all day Saturday. Saturday 
was a day of rest (we had come 5332 miles in 6 days) and we got the oil and 
filters changed in both motorcycles. We had to do that in the rain too 
because it never let up all day Saturday. Saturday night Jim and Donna took 
us out to this fabulous seafood restaurant where they can seat 670 people 
at once. Mike and I had a big lobster each and it was what we had been 
talking about for days. East Coast and Lobster, ay men.

We left Jim and Donnas about 5am, Fathers Day, Sunday June and hit I-95 and 
the road headed to the last USA 4 Corners check point in Key West FL. This 
turned out to be a bad day for Mike.

Mike was leading, riding in the middle lane of the south bound traffic and 
we were approaching Martinsburg W.VA when he some steel in the road and it 
went through the front of his engine cases. Mike managed to get the 
motorcycle over to the side of the road without mishap but it was tricky as 
he was sliding in the oil coming out of the engine.

We called HRCA and it took nearly 3 hours for the flatbed truck to show up. 
When they did finally get there the driver told us that he had just been 
notified about 20 minutes before and that he was in the next town that was 
Martinsburg and that was only about a mile away.

The next morning we got Mikes bike loaded to a 14 foot U-Haul truck and he 
headed home to CA with the broken bike. That was the end of the USA 4 
Corners trip for Mike. At least this time, but there could always be a next 
time.

I went on after we got Mike on the road with the truck and spent that 
night, Monday June 17th, in Richmond Hill GA. The next day, I had a short 
ride of only 273 miles into Oviedo FL to my daughters home.

I spent the next 5 days there visiting and finished the ride down to Key 
West FL to finish the USA 4 Corners Ride on Sunday June 23rd.

This had most certainly been one of the most dramatic of the 11 (eleven) 
times that I had done the SCMA, USA 4 Corners Ride.

Ray Davis KD6FHN