I’m afraid that this blog is going to be pretty quiet for the next two weeks as my wife and I are taking a trip to Spain. We will spend a few days playing tourist in Barcelona, then we will head down south to do a nine day motorcycle tour with Edelweiss Bike Travel.

From what I can tell from reading web pages on the net and from looking at the roads in Garmin’s City Select Europe software, the riding should be fantastic. We’ll be riding around 2000 miles and will be visiting Malaga, Granada, Antequera, Arcos de la Frontera, Sevilla, Jerez, Cadiz, Gibraltar and Ronda during the trip. I’ll be riding the new BMW R1200GS (one of the bikes on my list of possible new bike purchases) and Jonna will be riding a BMW F650GS.

Edelweiss tours aren’t for everyone but we had a blast when we did a Sicily to Rome tour with them last year and are doing this as a luxury for Jonna’s 40th birthday. As a result, letting someone else book the hotels, handle the baggage and suggest good roads is just the ticket. I’m sure we’ll do less structured travel in Europe in the future but nothing beats a vacation where you can just focus on riding motorcycles for a week.

I’ll post a trip report when we get back…until then, enjoy reading back through some of the older articles on the blog and let me know what you think.

[image from Sylvia’s Travel and Motorcycle Site .]