'Motorcycle Cruises' Offer Best Of Both Boomer Worlds

July 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

Typical cruises are fun, but they're just way too safe these days. Unless you happen to be pitched overboard, you will probably come home safe, sound and fatter. Take a motorcycle cruise, though, and you could add a swell layer of road rash to your sunburn! Plus, your kids will think you're bad to the bone (note: actual results may vary).

The Tennessee-based company ETA Travel is having a banner year organizing motorcycle trips around Royal Caribbean cruise routes, even expanding to the city of Baltimore for next year's.

This is the most boomertastic activity we've ever heard of, because it combines the pointless thrill of the midlife crisis with the xenophobia of spending a week on a giant floating mall. What's not to love? If you get really crazy, you could wear your leather jacket to dinner in the stateroom, just to show everyone what a badass you are.

And this week in hopeful tourism spending: Michigan is spending $30 million to promote the economically-battered Wolverine State this year, of which $110,000 was just dropped on a Lake Huron sailboat race. The Travel Michigan coalition got both naming rights and over 200 GPS units, with which people who have presumably not chosen to travel to Michigan can watch the boats' progress online. Let's hope the race itself is cooler to watch than the Google Map action!

Related Stories:
· The History of Motorcycle Cruising [Examiner.com]
· Travel Michigan a major sponsor of 2009 Bayview Mackinac Race [Detroit News]
· Cruises coverage [Jaunted]

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