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Riding with an ol’ friend… an un-solo adventure!
Next week I’ll be embarking on my first adventure of the season, riding to AZ and NM with Dave, an ol’ friend from Alaska who just purchased a Wee-Strom. In the last few months he has been touring Thailand on a cute little 250, riding 2 up with his girl friend, so the Suzuki 650…
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Photographs of my Grandmother’s 1922 motorcycle trip in California astride a Harley Davidson with a sidecar
I began a post a day ago regarding the history of women in motorcycling, and ended it with a couple of photographs that my mother and I had found of my grandmother. She was in moto-garb and astride an old Harley Davidson. Amazed when we found these, it was a total surprise to both my…
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2010 the MOST AWESOME RIDING Year Yet–A year end synopsis slideshow
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I love the Sierras…the desert and the long way home.
I love holiday parties and my best high school buddy’s annual party is always exceptional. Mike lives in NV so I knew I could combine a party weekend with a visit to my dad in his new assisted living center. The weather report predicted a cloud proof sky. Well, hmmm, they aren’t very dependable are…
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Things learned on his first day of riding…a very astute and self-aware post from pashnit.com
I saw this today in the “becoming a better rider” forum of pashnit.com and was totally impressed that a new rider could have such a perfect enlightened day and be able to verbalize it into a very readable post. Thank you Derek for a wonderful read!! Things I Learned on my First Riding Day I…
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Goin’ South–A female tale from the desert of the Southwest USA Pt.7
My cow buddies…and here I thought there was at least 100 animals braying all night and I discover when it was light out, that there were only 8 or so babies. Poor guys!! If you note, there is a beefalo among them. I was told that National Geographic did a story on this little guy,…
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Goin’ South–A female tale from the desert of the Southwest USA Pt.6
Adventure took shape from my childhood dreams about aliens and space monsters, space ships and space travel. I discovered only a few miles from TorC lay VLA or Very Large Array, a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Augustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, The movie Contact, with Jody Foster…
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Goin’ South–A female tale from the desert of the Southwest USA Pt.5
I did have some time to ponder the situation with my dad and remember the good times moving the current horror to the back burner. My dad was a kind dad, fun, who taught us skiing, which was how he met our mom. He also taught us to ride horses, took us ghost town exploring…
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Goin’ South–A female tale from the desert of the Southwest USA Pt.4
The MC B&B is awesome. Dean and Mz Pam are not only good friends but amazing hosts. Pam had just returned from a diving trip in the Caribbean but didn’t hesitate to put together a delicious peach pie! We shared travel tales as Dean listened to two crazy women laughing and enjoying each other’s company.…
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Goin’ South–A female tale from the desert of the Southwest USA Pt.3
The ride to the actual Lees Ferry took me into the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a sparsely visited park for more serious outdoor sports enthusiasts, which in of itself is ironic, since that certainly doesn’t describe me! The Colorado River is disguised in this area as a lamb, tame and braying softly. I found…