2007 USA FOUR CORNERS
MOTORCYCLE TOUR

The 2007 USA Four Corners Tour was completed under the guidelines of the Southern California Motorcycle Association's (SCMA) U.S.A. Four Corners Tour (http://www.usa4corners.org).  In order to be declared an official finisher, I had to accomplish the following:

• Ride my motorcycle to the four corners of the United States, along any route I chose, provided that I passed through the checkpoint cities of:

  • San Ysidro, California

  • Blaine, Washington

  • Madawaska, Maine

  • and Key West, Florida

Tour Log || Slides || Information

• From the time I arrived at the first checkpoint city, I had 21 days to pass through the remaining three checkpoint cities (that does not include the time from my starting city to the first checkpoint, or from the last checkpoint back home).
• At each checkpoint I had to fill out a form indicating the date, my motorcycle's odometer reading, which of the predetermined landmarks I was at (typically a post office), and the phone number of the landmark.  I also had to submit a picture of my motorcycle in front of the landmark that clearly displayed the name of the city, and a gas receipt from a gas station located within the checkpoint city.  All of these items had to be mailed to the SCMA USA Four Corners Tour Chairman in an enveloped postmarked from the checkpoint city.  The dates on the postmarked-envelopes became the 'official time' to prove that the tour was completed in less than 21 days.

  GPS log from the 2007 USA Four Corners Tour

I officially completed the four corners in 18 days, 8,004 miles.  Including my ride to the first corner (San Ysidro, California), and back home from the last corner (Key West, Florida), my complete tour was 30 days, 12,467 miles, including three days that I did not ride over Memorial Day weekend when I was in Tampa, Florida. I started in Salt Lake City, Utah and rode to San Ysidro, California, up most of the Pacific Coast Highway to Blaine, Washington, further north to Jasper, Canada, over to Madawaska, Maine via Canada, down the Atlantic Coast to Key West, Florida, and then home along the Gulf Coast, turning northwest at Houston, Texas across New Mexico and Arizona.

I rode the entire tour by myself, with the exception of a stretch that I rode two-up with my wife from Seattle, Washington, up to Jasper (Alberta, Canada), down to Banff (along the Icefields Parkway), and then to Calgary.  The 'semi-structured' format of the SCMA's tour requirements was good in the sense that I ended up riding to a lot of places that I would never have considered riding - like pretty much anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains.  I was pleasantly surprised by some places, and now know never to go back to other places.

Like any long ride, my tour was full of beautiful places, interesting people, and odd events; all of which I will tell you about in detail when I publish my trip log on this site in the upcoming weeks...or at least hopefully before my next big adventure!