Bob and Linda’s Motorcycle Trips

2003 Four Corners and Wedding Tour

We’ve been talking about doing the Four Corners Tour for several years – well actually I’ve been talking about doing the tour and Linda’s been listening. Well we have the opportunity to attend a wedding on a cruise boat on Lake George August 9^th and this seemed like a great chance to combine the two and put together a great trip.

The idea of the Tour is to visit the four corners of the US in a period of 21 days. The corners are Blaine, WA, San Ysidro, CA, Key West, FL, and Madawaska, ME. The 21 days starts when you visit the first location and ends when you visit the fourth location. You do not have to return to the first location to complete the tour. At each corner you need to get a local gas receipt, take a picture of your motorcycle at an identifiable landmark, and write down a phone number from a local phone specified by the tour rules and send all this info back in an envelope postmarked from that location. After the trip, all of this information is compiled and reviewed by the committee before your certificate is awarded.

Since we live only about 80 miles from Blaine, we will start there and then proceed to each corner in the order I have listed them above. After the last corner we will head down to Lake George and then, after the wedding, we will work our way back to the West Coast at a leisurely place visiting friends and family along the way. We have not really chosen a route and will probably see how we fell and what we want to do at the time.

Using Rand McNally’s Trip Maker software, they recommend this route with a mileage of 6621 miles. I’m sure we won’t take this exact route but do plan to try to average about 400 miles per day on the days we travel. That leaves us several days of cushion in case we have any problems or just want to stop for a day to rest. We also plan a day at Epcot Center while in Florida. We also have several other must rides line the Blue Ridge Parkway. We’ll see how it all turns out.