The Plan

I have to give credit, responsibility, accountability... to my brother-in-law Ray for this scheme.
This all started in October of 2007 when we were bow hunting in northern Michigan.
Ray is originally from Michigan but moved to San Diego, California about 25 years ago.
While he was back in MI, he noted that you can find older Michigan motorcycles, with few miles and in reasonably decent shape as compared to similar vintage bikes in California. A large part of the reason for this is because here in Michigan, we only have riding weather for about 4 to 5 month out of the year, then the bike owners have to winterize their bikes and prepare them for storage. So what Ray figured was that we could buy older bikes in Michigan and ship them to California and sell them for a profit. The more we talked about this concept we eventually thought that it would be neat to buy the first round of bikes and ride them out to San Diego, and if we made at least enough profit to pay for the gas, flights, maintenance and road expenses, it would be a worthwile venture. The 'adventure' of the trip was also probably a significant factor of this project.

What I plan to do with this blog is to document the bikes purchased, the various characters involved in the project and post daily updates and pictures during the trip.
I should have started this blog several months ago, but I'll have to claim ignorance as to how easy this may be. I've got to give credit to my son Alex for directing me to Google's blogger site and getting this thing off the ground.