The Mobius Trip

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Dr.Rock & LDF! Thanks for the great trip reports, be safe and enjoy the ride!

No snow here but plenty of good holiday mood. I hope the two of you are enjoying the holiday in your homeland. Have a great Christmas and a happy, healthy, prosperous new year.

Francine

Francine and David, it was so great meeting you and riding with you for a few days. I hope 2012 is full of joy and adventure for you.
I don't have a Christmas scene pic (it's +5 here - could ride if it wasn't so icy), but here's one of my favorite songs about the season.

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(for your amusement)

Ron

To wish Happy Holidays to David and Francine!!! As well as, to everyone else out there that has been enjoying their exploits.

Merry Christmas

Brian

Very nice Ron
Merry Christmas

Looking forward to the continues RR. You guys...er, and gals... really inspire.

The bears may no longer consider you food, but think of you as their new mating partner!:eek1

Thanks for the card. I was up at that lookout cabin on Twin Peaks once in the summer of '98. I camped on the creek in the saddle between the peaks.

Thanks for the Christmas card, guys! I look forward to it each year

Hey man, I just wanted to say that this photo is extremely inspiring. The things you and your wife do together is amazing. Happy Holidays to you and yours!

You guys are really an inspiration; both your love of riding and exploring, and your love for each other.

You guys ROCK!

Q~

+1

Now that's a Christmas card!

Thanks for sharing your holiday wishes with us Ron. It was great meeting you and riding for a couple of days.

Have a peaceful 2012.

Francine

Thanks everyone for your holiday wishes. Have a great 2012 celebration.

LDF

Dave,Francine

Hope the holiday season is finding you two well. Looking forward to reading about your adventures last fall. If you ever find yourselves in my neck of the woods you are always welcome. We will cook meat with fire.




JD

the self imposed deadline draws near

The saga of Mobius-8.

It's been a busy fall/winter so far. Apologies for the delay. If I had to describe the last three months, it would be sprinting through molassas. :huh

No matter. I finally have all the 2000+ photos run through Lightroom, and reflecting on the trip, I can only describe this Mobius as unequivocally EPIC.

To use a Dakar analogy (Go Neduro!!!) describing the last two Mobius trips: if M7 (Anchorage to Edmonton) was a transit, then M8 was a (super) special section.

M8 started in Edmonton, headed west into the Canadian Rockies, "suffered" some pavement heading south on the Icefields Parkway, and then tapped into the Tour of Idaho route -- (which gets translated in Mobius-speak to the "Tura I'doh!"), ending two weeks and 2300+ miles later at Questor & MotoAdventureGal's home base in Idaho Falls.

The Tour of Idaho is a bitchin' rough ride, and hat's off to anyone who completes it on spec. It's some spectacular riding, and what we saw of it was impressive. But even better, was sharing parts of our ride with other ADV'ers. We had the pleasure and honor of riding for several days with Dave, Ron, and then JD, and it was awesome.

Here's what the Canadian section looked like,



and the U.S.:



Adventure and Mobius hijinx to follow, with some (hopefully) good stories nice photos, insightful video and introspective analysis... so on with the show.

I have to take a moment to catch up on various Dakar rally threads.



Back in a minute.

:dg

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