DAY 1
FROM - TO: Arrival
MILES: 5
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: The hotel shuttle is available approx. every 20 minutes at the Los Angeles International Airport and will shuttle you to the hotel for a nap before the evening dinner party where your tour guides will introduce themselves, the tour itinerary and complete travel documents. Then we recommend an early bedtime to prepare for the adventure to come.

DAY 2
FROM - TO: Los Angeles to Palm Springs
MILES: 120
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: The moment has come: you are escorted to the showroom floor. In a few minutes you will be embarking on the vacation adventure of a lifetime and your dream is about to become reality. As your heart pounds, you strap on your black leather jacket and worn boots and settle yourself into the saddle of the chrome and steel 'ride', a gleaming, new-model Harley-Davidson. You are a modern cowboy heading for the open range on an iron horse vibrating with 1450 cc's of power. In minutes you and your new friends are out of the city and on a winding mountain road en route to a little biker's bar on a cliff overlooking Lake Elsinore. After lunch, the cool air warms as you soar like an eagle into the open country of the Mojave desert, and the home of the movie stars, Palm Springs.

DAY 3
FROM - TO: Palm Springs to Laughlin
MILES: 190
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: The Mojave Desert air rips past your face bringing unfamiliar smells of the old west: sage pinion pine and datura as you roll into Joshua Tree National Monument where some of the best climbers in the world gather to challenge the vertical walls. Then you find Old Route 66 and follow it across the historic desert. By day's end your hotel looks very good as you pull onto the main street of the wild west gambling town of Laughlin, Nevada.

DAY 4
FROM - TO: Laughlin to Grand Canyon National Park
MILES: 210
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: We follow Route66 most of the way along the high plateaus of Arizona. We stop for lunch in the old west town of Williams or Ash Fork and then on to one the greatest sights man has ever seen - the spectacular Grand Canyon, in time for the reddest sunset you’ve ever seen!!

DAY 5
FROM - TO: Grand Canyon National Park to Monument Valley
MILES: 185
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: We leave early and the air is cool and brisk at 7500 feet as we follow the Canyon east through magnificent pine forests. We stop at navajos roadside stands for beautiful turquoise jewelery and indian artifacts. And then on to the incredible Monument Valley and into Kayenta for lunch. Then we enter Utah and follow the San Juan River up through Mexican Hat. Here we can view some Anstazi ruins.

DAY 6
FROM - TO: Monument Valley to Bryce Canyon
HOTEL: TBA
MILES: 340
OF INTEREST: Today's ride is breathtaking. We cross the Colorado River where it pours into the gigantic Lake Powell where we can go for a swim. And then we wind up to higher ground and into Hanksville for lunch. Just before the incredible Capital Reef National Park, we pull over for a delicious swim in a cool, blue pool under a cascading waterfall. Refreshed, we roar on up to the Devil’s Backbone and through the Escalante Wilderness Area, and on down to Bryce Canyon.

DAY 7
FROM - TO: Bryce Canyon to Las Vegas
MILES: 250
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: We see both Bryce and Zion today. Besides seeing the most beautiful rock formations found anywhere on earth, we also get some of the most challenging motorcycle riding of the tour - the switchbacks of Zion!! It doesn't take long before the cool mountain air is replaced by the heat of the desert. Fortunately you aren't far from the neon oasis of Las Vegas where we have an evening of outrageous revelry planned on the gaming tables at the famous Las Vegas Strip.

DAY 8
FROM - TO: Las Vegas rest day
MILES: up to you
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: We join up with the new riders today while saying "Bon Voyage" to our friends just doing the 1st half. All other doing the entire 16-day tour can rest, relax at the cool hotel pool, explore the casinos and gamble or take a trip to Hoover Dam

DAY 9
FROM - TO: Las Vegas to Bishop
MILES: 315
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: Your guides wake you up early this morning and you find yourself rolling across the desert in the beautiful early morning light. Soon you pass the infamous Cottontail Ranch and swing into the switchbacks that lie north of Death Valley and zigzag over mountain passes and valley floors into Big Pine California. We head north to Bishop, and stop for the night after a long beautiful days ride.

DAY 10
FROM - TO: Bishop to Yosemite
MILES: 140
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: You push your Harley through the winding granite canyons of Tioga Pass into Yosemite National Park where you enjoy most of the day exploring one of the natural wonders of the world. You take a trail that is edged into a vertical cliff as the mist from a 1000 meter waterfall keeps you cool even as its roar deafens you. After you return to the valley floor you spy two fearless climbers clinging like flies to the granite face. You watch as they prepare to spend the night hanging from the wall. While you prepare to spend the night in the beautiful Yosemite Lodge.You sit silently beside the gentle sounds of the Tuoloumne River and watch the milky way spread across the western sky as night falls on the valley.

DAY 11
FROM - TO: Yosemite to San Francisco
MILES: 200
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: Your guides lead you out of Yosemite after an early breakfast. You twist the big iron though California’s old west gold rush country on a road that never has a staight moment.You try your hand at panning for gold in a cold mountain stream. Legendary bandits Black Bart and Juoquin Marietta rode these hills. You visit the jails that couldn’t hold them in gold-mining towns that inspired American western writers Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Then you cross the San Juoquin Valley, California’s fruitbasket, past miles of orange, peach and walnut orchards and acres of vineyards. With the western sun glinting off skyscrapers, you rumble in a pack of Harleys across the Bay Bridge into one of the most beautiful cities in the world, San Francisco. Your hotel is in the middle of the city, a perfect location for an evening of riding on the cable car from the blues clubs on Fisherman’s Wharf to the jazz spots in North Beach to China town.

DAY 12
FROM - TO: San Francisco - Rest Day
MILES: 46
HOTEL TBA
OF INTEREST: There is no better way to get a sense of the San Francisco Bay Area than on the seat of a Harley. You cross the Golden Gate Bridge and roll through the bayside village of Sausalito and on up through the magnificent redwood forest of Muir Woods, around the beautiful Mount Tamalpais and down to the seacoast resort of Stinson Beach for lunch. Then we follow the seacoast back into the city for the evenings festivities.

DAY 13
FROM - TO: San Francisco to Monterey
MILES: 118
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: We head out of San Francisco on beautiful, winding Skyline Boulevard for coffee at Alice's Restaurant and then onto the Pacific Coast Highway #1 south to Santa Cruz for lunch and fun and sun on the beach and boardwalk and then on to to Steinbeck's Cannery Row in Monterey.

DAY 14
FROM - TO: Monterey to Pismo Beach
MILES: 152
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: Morning takes you down Highway 1 along the edge of the cliffs of Big Sur for 90 miles of the most incredible coastal scenery anywhere in the world. You glide through the turns high above the rugged coastline and remote ocean bays. You cruise past San Simeon 'castle' tiny seaside art communities and miles of sandy beaches on the south side of Big Sur to the hotel in Pismo Beach. As night falls, the jasmine flowers perfume the soft coastal air. It feels like paradise and it just might be. Welcome to southern California.

DAY 15
FROM - TO: Pismo Beach to Los Angeles
MILES: 225
HOTEL: TBA
OF INTEREST: Tonight we can party in L.A.!! Cruise the famous Sunset Strip, maybe stop at the House of Blues, roar through Hollywood, Westwood, and Beverly Hills. Or, you can just rest.

DAY 16
FROM - TO: Departure
MILES: 5
OF INTEREST: This morning we ride to Venice Beach for breakfast and then, reluctantly, to our offices in Hawthorne where we check in the bikes and prepare for the trip home. The hotel shuttle driver gets you to the airport in time for your flight check in. We wish you a "Bon Voyage"!