A Little About Us

A Little About Us
INTRODUCTION: First, allow me to introduce the members of this group...I'm Mike riding my 2003 Heritage Softail Springer...my wife Juju is on her 2015 Freewheeler...and Ed and Nancy are on their 2009 Heritage Softail. For the purposes of this trip we are referring to ourselves as H.A.R.P. HARP is a made-up name and it simply stands for Hogs And Retired People...and all that means is that we are members of HOG (Harley Owners Group) and we are...you guessed it...retired! The name came about when seven of us made a trip out west, but just the four of us this time. I've done blogs before, and this one will be for the same reason...to refresh our memories in our "Golden Years" (they say the memory is the second thing to go...and I can't remember what the first thing was). What is different this time is the blog is being shared by THUNDER ROADS PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE...Truly, an honor. This journey will be a round trip from, and to our home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The plan is to travel to the Atlantic coast at Ocean City, Maryland for the "Official" start on U.S. Route 50. We will follow U.S. 50 west for over 3,000 miles to its terminus in Sacramento, California. From Sacramento, we will head a bit further west to the Pacific Ocean before we begin to travel south. California Highway 1 and U.S. Route 101, better known as the Pacific Coast Highway, will be the route for about 500 miles to Santa Monica. At the world famous Santa Monica Pier, we hop on Route 66...The "Mother Road". Travelling about 2,500 miles to the north east, we'll arrive at the end of 66 in Chicago, Illinois. The "Official" end of our journey. From Chicago, it's just another 450 miles and we're back in Pittsburgh. We've made very few lodging reservations, thus eliminating the pressure of trying to get somewhere by some deadline. The whole purpose of this ride to see this country and whatever piques our interest along the way...and we will be looking for that giant ball of yarn! So we invite you to ride along with us. We hope you will find it both entertaining and informative. Please feel free to leave your comments and share this with anyone you feel would have an interest.

Monday, July 27, 2015

THE WAIT IS OVER!

The part arrived at Z & M today, and, as it should be, they installed it today (imagine that!)

Tomorrow morning we'll be back on the road in an attempt to complete this journey.

Again, BIG thanks are going out to Jim Persin and his staff in the  Z & M Cycle Sales  Service Department.  Without the excuses, misinformation or obvious lack of concern we previously experienced, Z & M rolled up their collective sleeves to get the job done properly and in the least amount of time.

If we had only known....

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From the Too Much Time On Our Hands department:

I had plenty of time to look over our statistics for this blog, which you may (or may not) find interesting.  This is definitely for our geek friends out there.

We are now global...viewers have been reading the blog in several countries:

Countries viewing blog (In order of number of views)

  1. United States
  2. Netherlands
  3. St. Martin
  4. Russia
  5. Canada (Our Canadian friends aren't trying hard enough)
  6. Georgia (The former Soviet country - not the southern State)
  7. Malaysia
  8. Poland

Views by operating system
  1. Windows and Android users make up 56% of our viewers
  2. iPhone and iPad total 34%

Viewers by browser
  1. Chrome 36%
  2. Safari 21 %
  3. Mac 16%
  4. Samsung 9%
  5. Firefox 7%
  6. IE 4%

Page Referral Sites
98% of all viewers are accessing the blog through the Thunder Roads Pennsylvania site.  (This should make the magazine people very happy)

O.K. that's enough with the statistics.  
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We hope these posts implant a travel bug in our Grand Kids (Demetri - Elliott - Xander and David).  So, in the tradition of Where's Waldo and Dora the Explorer, as we get back on the road and continue to write tomorrow, we trust this blog will provide their parents with some interesting stuff, other than the fascinating statistics above, for their bedtime stories (Of course it would be a huge bonus if you like it too).  
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  1. Chuch HeislerJuly 28, 2015 at 8:40 AM

    Thank God I thought you would never leave! Be safe, have fun and good luck.

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