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Riding for Mother…to Portland OR and back for Mother’s Day
A spontaneous ride emerged with the onset of Mother’s Day, since it had been several months since I had seen or spent time with my mother. So, In near perfect weather, I packed up the Bandito, routed a quick map in google and asked Gary to clone it onto the GPS and off I went…
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The PANTS trip and a little ride into Yosemite…
I purchased a new to me pair of Olympia Airglide 3 pants from a woman rider who had them listed on ebay. Since she lived in Modesto, I asked if I might wave the shipping fee and take a quick ride down to pick them up Sunday morning, thus giving us a chance to meet.…
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Streetmasters Motorcycle Reunion–what a weekend!
This hasn’t been an easy event to write up, due to the superstar nature of the speakers, the days of superior riding and the number of brilliant participants. We had David Hough author of Proficient Motorcycling, Fred Rau, author of Motorcycle Touring Bible, Craig Vetter, from the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, and Dana and Nancie…
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Desert Fever–Part 5 to home!
Today’s map between Bullhead City and Big Pine. 416 miles Laughlin is a strip of casinos along the river. I rode by on the opposite side and got this shot. Not great, but you get the idea. Hwy 163 out of Bullhead City heading to LV is a blast. It’s a bunch of big sweepers…
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Desert Fever–Part 4
The VLA is an interesting place. Anyone who has seen the movie Contact with Jody Foster will recognize the place. It’s used for radio astronomy. You can read all about it here. The wind was howling out there, more so that I have experienced before, but the sky was clear as a bell. The…
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Desert Fever–Part 3
Sheesh, day three became day four and five and and… So, let me move back in time to catch up to where I am now. I left the hot springs and headed to Truth or Consequences, NM. My plan was to ride to Lordsburg and then go up into the mountains and take one of…
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Desert Fever–part 2
Day 2 Today I was going to iron butt as close as I’ll ever get. I rode 600 miles by the time I arrived at the Essence of Tranquility Hot Springs and not without some light evening full moon action. ; ) The Map from Beatty, NV to Safford, AZ Gotta love NV Lots of…
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Desert Fever…a ride into the SW yet again!
My grandson has spring break this week which means grandma is off the time clock and can take a quick jaunt to the desert for needed fix of pure high desert air. It seems I can’t go over a month without some sort of desert exposure. It’s funny, some people think of Sacramento as…
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Riding the SW…
I’m out riding the great SW of America. I’ll be posting a RR as soon as I can, but for now here’s a couple of teaser shots! Caples Lake in the Sierra Nevada range. Arizona check back!!
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A non-riding journey to Scotland to say a final goodbye to a friend.
2013 creeped silently into my life bringing with it some sadness and introspection. As I grew another year older I had the sad news that I had lost two of my friends. One very special friend, who was living in Scotland, died after losing a short battle with lung cancer in February. Though I know…