Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

All night the owls hooted and I enjoyed the sound. The loons were silent though. I avoid summer camping and one reason is mosquitoes. Sure enough a few found their way into my tent. I have a bug zapper flashlight … Continue reading →

I slept the peace of nature… It has been a long hard um… how does one calculate time? Has it been a tiring week? A tough year? An interminable decade? Hard to say; there is only before and now. The … Continue reading →

I’ll be posting a new travelogue starting tomorrow. Vignettes go live every morning for a week. Every bit is true, including the parts where my motorcycle makes decisions and how I personally met Odin and his side chick. Lets face … Continue reading →

Having read and reflected on a tiny bit of reason in a world gone mad, it was time to go. I’d drank so many glasses of ice water the coffee shop staff was looking at me funny. I put a … Continue reading →

I woke sore. I’d been overheated the day before. I took an ibuprofen and stumbled to the hotel’s breakfast area. (I’d been super lucky to find a bottle of ibuprofen in my saddle bags!) The breakfast area was stocked with … Continue reading →

It had been a hot day. I’d ridden a good six hours in conditions I’d call “jockstrap in Galveston”. I concluded some simple business (I’d hoped to arrive looking reasonably presentable but I showed up looking like a dishrag and … Continue reading →

I had to take a long-ish one day trip on short notice. Normally I’d drive my truck but gas costs $5 a gallon in the Bidenverse. (The uncaring finger of fate removed me from the dwindling sanity of 2019 and … Continue reading →