11,000 Miles From Florida To Alaska On A Motorcycle, No GPS, No Hotels, 13 Days – These Two Michigan Men Did It!
What better time than the middle of winter than to pass on a great story of riding the country on a motorcycle? The story is unreal and has me longing to get back on my bike!

This is an unreal story of logging thousands of miles on two wheels with no hotels, no GPS, and just two friends making the trek.
Meet “Dingo” and Bobby McCraight, who did just that! Yes, 11,000 miles in 13 days on a ride called the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge. They did it this past summer, starting in a hurricane!

Watch the video interview above as Dingo and Bobby talk about the trials and tribulations of this grueling ride. Bobby explained, “The roads are chosen for a specific purpose…they put you on technically challenging roads, so if you’re whipping through there at 50 or 60 m.p.h. you’d better know what you’re doing. This is the first year where nobody died on the ride.”

As far as getting rest on the route, Dingo said, “We would ride until we couldn’t, and when we couldn’t anymore, that’s when we started to look for where we’re going to sleep.” This went on night after night.

Dingo’s bike almost didn’t make it. He had mechanical problems early on. His motorcycle was burning through oil. He said at one point, a mechanic looked at the bike. “He took my tank off, and he saw that my forward two spark plugs had melted into the bike.” They didn’t have time to make the proper repairs, so the call was made to trek on, even though the mechanic said the bike wouldn’t make it to the Canadian border. He added oil whenever he could and kept moving forward.

They didn’t go into this challenging ride without a “practice run”. We did a trial run up to the U.P., a “shakedown” run we called it.” Bobby told me. “We wanted to see what worked and what didn’t. How many times have you gone and lived off your motorcycle for a few days? How can I get things on my bike? What’s important and what’s not.”

One of the other incredible things the guys said was that no one knew the route until just before they were ready to leave. Dingo said that the organizers spend the odd years interviewing prospective riders and creating the route for the following year. He said he was interviewed three times, while Bobby only twice.

The guys said they learned a lot about themselves and each other. Will they do it again? I think we’ll hear more stories coming from them in 2026.
For more on the Hoka Hey ride, click here.