The PhotoMap is updated through Day 16. Click your way across the continent and see what you’ve been going without, homesteaders!
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Click to download Piaggio MP3 Google Earth RideMap 1
As of 1500hr ET, Piaggio Ground Control has made public the Piaggio MP3 Lincoln HIghway Google Earth RideMap (.98b), comprising data, routing and images collected from Buddy & Bob from Day 1 through midnight of last night - a total of two weeks progress deeply embedded in a KML cross-linked back to the Road Reports posted daily here.
If you like the Google DayMaps posted here daily, if you want to see in even greater detail Buddy & Bob’s Herculean efforts to navigate their MP3’s down the ever-elusive Lincoln Highway, then you’re going to love our Google Earth RideMaps. You will have to download Google Earth - don’t worry, it’s free - and we will be posting easy directions as the countdown proceeds this afternoon.
In the meantime, if you want a refresher on using our Google Maps DayMaps, here’s our original post from Day 1 of our Riders’ adventure.
Piaggio Ground Control out.
TWO full Google Map Maps are now live:
1) No Age Limit: The Piaggio MP3 Lincoln Highway Ride 2008 Progress Map
2) No Age Limit: The Piaggio MP3 Lincoln Highway Ride 2008 Photo Map
The Progress Map - updated several times per day - displays routing, lunch & gas stops, and Buddy & Bob’s location through a combination of road reports and GPS data from the TomTom unit mounted on their Piaggio MP3s.
The Photo Map - updated once per day - displays the precise location at which Buddy & Bob have taken so many amazing pictures, also viewable in the Gallery section.
Enjoy!
Buddy & Bob, having left Aurora, CO this morning @ 0845hr MT, have just finished lunch @ The Lunchbox Cafe in Brush, CO. Despite their statements yesterday about not wanting to get their MP3’s dirty, a Herculean effort to follow the original Lincoln Highway led to a complex morning route via Interstate, local highways, roads and our riders’ new best friend…gravel. More to follow upon their arrival tonight in Sterling, CO.
Buddy & Bob have completed their run from Fort Collins to Denver, CO, and have arrived for their lunch-time visit at Fay Myers Motorcycle World in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village. They’re currently awaiting local press, and once their interviews are wrapped up they will proceed with their amazing journey…
More to follow once our riders call in!
While our two transcontinental champs are on the way to Denver, why not click back through the photos of their journey so far? The PhotoMap is updated all the way through yesterday’s day off in Fort Collins, so take a few to scroll back through time and westward through space to overlooked destinations like Evanston, Ely and Auburn.
Buddy & Bob report they are safe in Fort Collins, CO, are relaxing at a local Comfort Inn, and rumor has it they are planning to visit the nearest Piaggio dealer tomorrow morning. Maybe. Maybe for fun. Maybe as a precaution.
More to follow, including the full details of the Day 10 Route - pending their full report, many pictures, and much, much more…
