One rider’s sporadic thoughts on motorcycling and whatever else life throws at him.
This is Gwen. If you click on the small image you can see the big, clear version.
I doubt Gwen would approve of this photo of her, but it’s the only current one I have and I took it this past Friday while recuperating from my ride. I stopped by Atmore, AL and visited my Dad, [...]
I pulled into Martin Creek Lake State Park in Tatum, Texas yesterday afternoon at about 2PM and it was already close 99 degrees hot. My plan was to get one of their screened enclosures to camp in so I wouldn’t need to set up the tent. The ranger lady at the front gate took one [...]
I was sitting there eating my barbeque plate and it occurred to me I did not want to ride to Monument Valley and through Colorado. It was just a matter of being tired of being blown all over the place day after day by this unrelentless wind…and being cold. I was ready for some warmth.
So [...]
After awaking and getting dressed and packed for the day, I found myself at the local Wal-Mart at 4AM looking for a can of Teflon Multi-Use Chain lube. My can ran out yesterday and I forgot to go look before retiring for the evening. It turned out they didn’t even have any…so I got a [...]
I am really depressed that I have not been able to take the pictures of things I want to photograph! As I ride along and see some stupendous scene I wish I could just stop and click away, but there are mitigating circumstances! The sides of the roads do not offer suitable places to pull [...]
At some point today I determined that I did not want to venture up the Oregon coast on the US 101. I think it was when I woke up this morning and realized how tired I still was from fighting the wind and twisties for the last two days up Hwy 1. But I’m not [...]
Wednesday…Is it Wednesday? I can’t keep up or even remember. Each time I sit down to write about a days happening, I have to count on my fingers from Day 1 which was Saturday the 5th. I don’t even know the date today That’s the kind of ride/vacation I like.
I spent way too much time [...]
I began kind of “out of sorts” today..and if I could have done it, I would’ve materialized myself back to the house in Woodstock and tried to salvage what’s left of my summer. After spending the last 5 days with Trish and Jeremy, I didn’t want to leave them, so I departed in a melancholy [...]
Today is Saturday….
Jeremy, my daughter’s S.O., came home from his tour of duty at the firehouse this morning. Jeremy wanted us to go out and do something! He wanted to show me a Los Angeles “sight” and get away from the house. After a 2nd nice smoothie, we all decided to take a ride up [...]
Day 7 began by waking up to a nice cold breakfast smoothie, that my daughter made me as she got ready to go to work. She has this Vita-Mix tool…It’s like a blender on steroids and she chops up whole bananas, oranges, spinach, etc. etc. with ice cubes. MAN! It was good!
She went off to [...]
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