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A trip to Southern OR to meet friends and make new ones!
The catalyst was losing another dear friend. When my moto-pal, Bruce Laidlaw died and I realized that I needed to spend more time nurturing friendships and creating some new ones. I have spent years on the motorcycle forum Pashnit, yet had not met but a handful of other riders in person and the few that…
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Hugo ventures to find his own…BMWMOA Rally–Salem, OR
I have always said that I didn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member, however that all changed when I bought my first BMW motorcycle. Suddenly, I wanted to join a club in the hope that I could gain boundless knowledge from other beemer owners, hanging out consuming high…
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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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Riding the World…2012
Every year I like to do a culmination slide show of the year of riding. This year I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to ride with one of my best pals, Tyler Risk. We did a 3500 mile ride up to the great Northwest and Canada in the summer, seeing some absolutely gorgeous…
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Part 6–California Chicks having converged on Canada come home!
We spent a couple of lovely “off bike” day in Portland, giving me a chance to see my son, my sister and my mother. It was wonderful time spent. Tyler had an old friend living in Lake Oswego, right south of Portland, so she and I spend a few days away from each other. Tyler…
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Part 5–California Chicks Converge on Canada
I awoke early on Castlegar departure morning to look out side and see that torrents of rain had taken over the outer world. The ground had rivers running across it and I knew this was definitely going to be a test of my FirstGear riding suit. I have no rain gear per se but the…
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Onward to Canada, Two California Chicks Converge on Canada!
I am unsure why, but this has been the longest it has taken me to put together a ride report of a recent journey. Whether it was the thought provoking visit with my aging dementia ridden father the first day, or the fact I spent nearly every evening visiting with my riding buddy giving absolutely…
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2011…Riding the World, my end of year slide show!
Another awesome year of motorcycling comes to an end, but there will always be next year! I do hope you enjoy seeing where I’ve been as much as I’ve enjoed going…well almost as much! 😉 Cheers and Happy Holidays to you all!!
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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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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…