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Ride across the USA
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RE: Ride across the USA

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that Django can post a link to his Spot device so that we can follow his travels. He may have posted such a link, but I didn't see it.


06-03-2019, 11:48 PM
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RE: Ride across the USA

I am glad that you arrived safely in our great country.


06-04-2019, 02:57 AM
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(06-04-2019, 02:57 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I am glad that you arrived safely in our great country.
Great BIG country. Take your time and enjoy the trip. A lot of folks get hung up on making miles and end up not seeing much. But I know you have done your research and will see the sites. But try to meet the people, too. It's a pretty friendly place Thumbs Up


06-04-2019, 04:30 AM
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RE: Ride across the USA

MTC, can anyone follow Django on Spot? If so, how?

Some of us are envious. One day, maybe ...


06-04-2019, 08:18 AM
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RE: Ride across the USA

I think he can post a link to his spot account and there is or was away to post updates on Facebook or Twitter. I have a Spot Gen3, but haven’t used those features in a while. I’ll fiddle around with it and let you know what I find out


06-04-2019, 11:31 AM
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RE: Ride across the USA

Thanks


06-04-2019, 11:52 AM
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RE: Ride across the USA

It looks like he can create a share page through findemespot.com. He may have already done so, but I haven't seen him post about it nor did he provide me with a link when he sent me his emergency contact info.

I just reactivated the one I had for my SS1000 ride. It's pretty easy to do. The interface isn't as pretty as Google Maps, but you can see where he's at in near real-time. Here's the link to mine just so you can see what it looks like. I have it set to show data for the last 7 days--since I was riding locally this last week, the points are all stacked together. Django's wouldn't be that way of course. http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces...gnmePWpSWf


06-04-2019, 11:56 AM
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Thanks again, MTC. That's pretty neat.


06-04-2019, 03:07 PM
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That is cool. I had a Spot years ago, the first version, it was orange, and the coverage was kind of 'spotty" lol


06-04-2019, 11:20 PM
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RE: Ride across the USA

Hello my friends, this is another sign of life. I start in Wrightwood this morning, where I had a bed last night.

I'm having a great time but unfortunately not much time to be in the forum.

Pick up of the bike and getting it thru custom worked seamlessly last Monday, at 4 pm I was ready to take off at Delta Airline Freight Center.

Next stop was at the gas station, my creditcard is accepted. That's fine too.

Then I rode to Santa Monica to see the Pacific ocean. Was a little touristic crowed there. I continued to ride the old Topanga Canyon north and finally headed east to Glendale, to find my motel.

Wow, a lot of traffic there in L.A. But no problems.

Yesterday I rode the C 2, Angeles Crest Highway. That wos great. I did pictures but currently have no time to post them, will do that later.

I got my Spot device running and set up a page at SpotWalla, where you can follow my ride. The rider shows my last position.

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=...howAll=yes

It does not show my ride complete from the beginning and the timezone is wrong, but for now I hpe it is good enough, will fix that later.

That's all so far, have to pack and get riding again. Today I want to get up the Sout of the Sierra Nevada.


06-05-2019, 02:50 AM
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