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Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Motorcycle Exploration 2021: Part 3: Backwoods Social Strata

I finally got to the free primitive camping / ATV staging area I’d seen on a map. There were a few RVs. They had generators running and (presumably) people inside enjoying the AC. (I felt jealous.) Nearby were the horse … Continue reading

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Motorcycle Exploration 2021: Part 2: I Found My Happy Place

Only as I left camp behind did I realize what I gem of an area I had found. The forest roads and various ATV trails (legal for motorcycles) spread out like spiderwebs! I had in mind to explore a designated … Continue reading

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A Non-Curmudgeon Review Of The TW200

[Forgive the navel gazing. I was thinking aloud and started typing.] My motorcycle (like its rider) is an “odd duck”. Neither fish nor fowl, it seems to baffle everyone. In a parking lot, non-riders and kids smile appreciatively. Karens mentally … Continue reading

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Motorcycle Exploration 2021: Part 1: Basecamp Amid Forest Fire Smoke

[Y’all may be forgiven for assuming I’ve been sitting on my ass. Is that not the blogger way? Doing little but whining about societal decline and mooning over butterflies? Nothing could be further from the truth! I’ve been outside playing … Continue reading

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Aaaaaand It’s Gone

I took over 30 photos of monarch #4 and virtually all of them were out of focus. Ah well… a GoPro ‘aint a short focal length device. (I like to use my old GoPro because it’s not a snitch machine … Continue reading

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Critter Update: Almost An Empty Nest

Monarch #4 has a dark chrysalis and will almost certainly pop out as soon as the late morning sun has kicked in. I’m about to be an empty nester.

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TW200: Footpegs

If you’re a regular reader you know that in 2020, year of the risk-averse Karenific shitstorm, I bought a little dirtbike. My first dirtbike. At an age when I might be thinking about grandkids and 401(k)s, I saddled up and … Continue reading

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Critters: Pics Or It Didn’t Happen

Monarch 1 surprised me by popping out a few days sooner than expected. Here he is, just minutes after breaking free. Notice the “butterfly crap of doom” at the bottom of the jar. Nature is gross. The distortion is from … Continue reading

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Critter Update

Another dawn, another monarch. The third one is drying his wings right now. He’ll be gone by the time I get my second cup of coffee.

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Ryan George Hits It Out Of The Park

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