Category Archives: Summer_2022

You don’t need to climb the highest mountain to have a “natural experience”. The earth is always right there under your feet. I abandoned pre-conceived plans and was simply riding. My little motorcycle Honey Badger seemed to know where to … Continue reading →

I rolled out of base camp literally days behind schedule. I’d planned some serious exploration but had opted instead to sit on my ass brewing coffee and reading books. No regrets on that choice! But now it was adventure time! … Continue reading →

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 →