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The Great Canada Adventure–Enterprise to Portland to Detroit and reuniting with my riding partner!
Riding solo after so many days of riding with Bill seemed odd. I was so used to seeing him and his KTM in my vision ahead, that I felt a bit loss not seeing him. I have had the pleasure of Gary’s company on some longer journeys, but never anyone else. A few days collaboration…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Castlegar to Enterprise
We geared up and got ready to leave Castlegar but with reservations, as I have never had such a bonding with a group of like minded riders. A couple of cups of coffee and I was ready for the road. Bill and Mitch, Endo…two handsome devils! We decided to ride with Geoff over some of…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Miette Hot Springs to Castlegar
While at Miette, I met an awesome couple. He was a rider and she a rider to be. She had ridden a small 250 and was bitten by the bug and couldn’t wait to do some more riding. This is one of the things I love most about touring, seeing the glow in another female’s…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Canmore to Miette Hot Springs near Jasper
The mighty fine Garmin GPS wasn’t quite up to being fine or any sort of asset on this trip for in order for it to be mighty fine one needs to load the necessary maps onto the unit. This, I admit, I forgot to do, so the GPS was virtually useless on nearly all of…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Red Lodge to Seely Lake MT
So, I’ll pick up where I left off… From Red Lodge to Seely Lake. We left on the edge of a storm, but from the weather service it looked like we’d be skirting the worst of it and so it was. A drop of two feel along the way, but nothing much. Our intention was…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Salmon ID to Red Lodge MT
I had to step back and add a couple of photos that I skipped previously. We are still on the road and I have been so busy riding I have had little time to post to the blog, but I am grounded in Portland visiting my family and thought it prudent to get back online…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Slogging CA to Boise let the real roads commence!
It began as an inquiry on my home motorcycle forum, pashnit.com as to routes and sights not to be missed in Canada. I wanted to ride farther north than I had in the past and see some new country. Well, as the posted advice came across, one heavily detailed post caught my eye posted from…
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Stay tuned for the follow up with words and photos of the Bikes and Babes: Quintessential Female Riders…
My Grandmother, Vera Evangeline War I began thinking about this post a while ago and finally am about to actually let the women who ride, speak for themselves. Bikes and Babes–What constitutes the quintessential female rider? Who are those women who ride? What are they thinking? Next week you’ll be able to answer that question…
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Way to Learn…Bandit riding over Ebbetts Pass
I realized today that I’d be sending my seat off tomorrow to Florida and I am unsure just how long it’s going to take to get it back even though, Frank or Spencer as he’s known, told me he’d tweak the seat in a 24 hour turn around. It still has to travel across the…
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Riding to Canada–Three weeks o’ riding bliss
Several weeks ago, I posted on pashnit, my home motorcycle forum a query for taking a summer ride up to Canada with the intention of riding some roads that I hadn’t previously ridden. I got a few thoughts and ideas but one forum buddy living in Scotland, jumped on and had an absolute wiki of…