Guy Boutin's Motorcycle Touring and Travel Pages

Adventures in Sport Touring with the Honda ST 1100, 1300 and the BMW 1200RT

Exploring North America...One Road at a Time

The following pictures were taken all over the country.   West Coast, East Coast and Canada.  

This album and song, are dedicated to my wife Debbie, who has endured my long absences without complaint, and supports me while I live my dream.  Thanks for understanding what it means to be married to a Long Rider.  I'll be coming home with a dozen roses oneday.

In 2002 I spent the night with the Hotel California gang in Eureka, California.  This picture was taken just before our departure for the ride south to the Bay Area.  We spent the day in the Redwoods, and on the Pacific Coast Highway.  Great ride.

Photo Richard Follen

This picture was taken later the same day, somewhere on the coast.  That's Don Cortez on the left, the late Dennis Ryan in the middle, and Guy.

Photo Richard Follen

While standing in the shadows of the Giant Redwoods, I share a lighter moment with my brother riders and good friends, Dennis and Don.

Photo Richard Follen

In 2001 I made my first trip to Canada.  Here, you see us somewhere in Ontario enroute to Campbellford, to spend the night at Mark and Carries cabin.  As you can see, it was a cloudy, cold, and sometimes wet day for a ride.

After enjoying Mark and Carrie's hospitality for a night, we loaded the next morning and took this picture.  We are about to depart for Ottawa.  The weather was still cold and wet, but the good company made up for it.  Never let it be said you can't load out a ST.

Photo by Jerry Rutherford, from the 2001 East Canada Tour.

The lava like landscape of Craters of the Moon National Landmark.  A barren and lifeless place.  I passed through here in 2003 on my way to Wyoming.

I found this giant Buffalo Bill at a roadside store on US 26 near the Idaho-Wyoming border.  Wyoming is proud of its western heritage, and similar images are displayed everywhere.  This picture was taken in 2003.

I was riding eastward on US 20 past the brown, and barren landscape of Wyoming, when I noticed this green field in the middle of no where.  The miracle of irrigation transforming something out of nothing.  The green field stood in stark contrast to the surrounding area.

2003 West Coast Tour

The Bighorn Mountains.  I was pelted by rain the day I rode across this isolated finger of the Rockies.  The snow capped peaks are perhaps 40 miles away.  Beautiful country.

2003 West Coast Tour

This unique rock formation is in beautiful Zion National Park.  In my experience I would place Zion in one of the top 3 spots a Long Rider should visit.  The other 2 would be Crater Lake and the Grand Canyon.  Then again, there's always Niagara Falls, the California Sierras, or the Colorado Rockies, or maybe a Key West beach.  My bike and I have been to so many awesome places it's hard to decide.  This formation is known as "The Checkerboard.

From the 2003 West Coast Tour

You would guess the Mason-Dixon marker (the line dividing the Northern US from the Southern) would be something profound or prominent, but in reality it is nothing more than a small rock hidden in a guys backyard around some bushes.  This marker is in Marydel, Maryland.  America is a very large country with cultural, political, and regional differences.  What makes our Land so unique among the world is how so many meld together in our love for freedom and Country to make America what it is today. I captured this picture in 2002 on the DC tour.

"18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses", music by Kathy Mattea copyright 1989

....and then he spent the rest of his life with the one that he loves...........