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Day 6 – Move away from the rock
Since Arches National Park is literally in Moab’s back yard t back yard National Park is literally in Moab'________________________________________________________________________________hat was the...
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Day 7 - A day of 'ests'.
This, our penultimate day on the bikes, turned out to be a day of extremes, from the coldest to the hottest, the highest, the longest, and the scariest. Fortunately it was not also the wettest as it...
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Day 8 - It ain't over 'til it's over
On this, our last day, we expected a quick, straight shot into Las Vegas from St. George. But first we backtracked a few miles to Washington to visit Zion H-D for the requisite tee-shirts where we...
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The Great Circle Tour – A Retrospective
It started – and ended 8 days later – in Las Vegas. First, by the numbers:Number of motorcycles - 2 Number of travellers - 4 Days on the road - 8 Days without rain - 2 Miles ridden - 1636 States...
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Four weeks later….
What a difference a month makes. Having just visited Grand Canyon I can imagine how disappointed visitors must be when they come across this sign and others like it at Bryce Canyon, or Zion, or any of...
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Now I admit that’s a rhetorical question, but if you’re going to do something incredibly stupid and probably illegal should you really be recording it all on your GoPro? I know everyone wants their 15...
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Lest we forget…
Yesterday I received a box of books previously owned by a WW II veteran who died earlier this year. An avid reader of military history he had accumulated quite a collection over the years, many of...
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Not a good idea
I saw this over at Bikes in the Fast Lane today and just had to comment.Seems like a good idea, right? And, really, how can one argue with protecting babies and young children – it’s motherhood and...
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Long winter’s nap….
The sun is losing its edge, no longer sitting so high in the sky. Its weakening power is seen in shorter days and sharply slanted rays – even at midday. The dark comes at 4PM now, a full five hours...
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The Monuments Men – A Book Review
With riding season now at an end for a few months I get to catch up on my reading, tackling some of the pile of books I have managed to amass which threatens to topple over causing grievous bodily harm...
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Don’t you wish all motorcycle reviews were as funny, informative, and totally refreshing as this one?
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Cold weather gear
Unlike some (many?) of my readers I own very little cold riding gear; actually I have none. My only nod to riding in near-freezing temperatures is to throw on some long johns and an extra sweatshirt...
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We’d had quite a bit of snow over the past week so today it was time to get out the winter wheels (aka ‘Big Joe’ of Shake, Rattle and Roll fame) and have some fun.Big Joe is about 25 years old - I...
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The colour of winter
Even if you’ve never experienced it personally, you’re familiar with all the typical negative adjectives describing winter – drab, dreary, monochrome, white, cold, freezing, dark, grey. The list, like...
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Christmas Greetings
I’d like to say that Christmas snuck up on us this year, but it didn’t. It seemed to come right out of the blue, crashing into our lives with the realization that, “Holy crap!” it was just around the...
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The devil finds work for idle hands
According to Benjamin Franklin, “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” I suppose that may not always be so as I’ve been pretty miserable at some...
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Some time ago I blogged (here) about the gorilla in the room in an attempt to explain why so many car drivers just don’t see us (and oftentimes don’t even see other cars or trucks). Sure we’re a...
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Seniors discount
There’s the old adage, “You’re only as old as you feel.” Then there’s the argument about mental age versus biological, or chronological age. A simple Google search will turn up dozens of sites that...
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In search of the Methuselah battery
We just (barely) survived a recent deep freeze here, and are about to enter another one on Monday. When the temperatures outdoors are hovering around the –20C to –30C (-4F to –22F) we’re not the only...
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Flagstaff to Sedona (Guest post)
Back in September I blogged about the Great Circle Tour we did down in the Southwest. Due to time constraints we bypassed Flagstaff and Sedona, an omission I want to correct one day soon. However, in...
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