Category: Motorcycle
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Wandering Around The West – Day 7
So when I was writing the post yesterday the plan had been to ride north from Crescent City, California, via US route 101. Break off onto US route 199 to head inland, then hook up with Interstate 5, finally ending up in Eugene, Oregon, for the night. Well, that didn’t quite happen. Awaking, we ate…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 6
Who said anything about staying in Eureka, California? Surely not I. I intentionally booked the hotel room for one night. The thinking was that if it turned out to be a bust, then we could move onto our next town. Well, it really wasn’t a bust, but the hotel didn’t have a room for the…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 5
The day started peacefully enough. We checked out of the hotel and set off to find the Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California. The story behind this beach, in a nutshell, is that the residents used to throw their trash over the cliff into the sea. Over time the glass that was in the trash…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 4
As the rays of dawn peeked through the curtains, I knew what had to be done. I laced up my running shoes and went for a quick three miler. It felt good to get some miles in; almost like knocking out the pains that had settled in after the half-marathon and the days of sitting…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 3
Today was much less disastrous, and much more treacherous. We left Alturas after having a quick breakfast at the Best Western and headed south on US route 395. I was glad to be back on the road, but I was quick to realize just what kind of hell I’d rolled into. Straight roads for as…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 2
Day two started out with a disaster. But first allow me to employe the plot device that drives me insane. A couple of hours earlier we’d eaten breakfast at a restaurant not on the main drag in Bend called The Breakfast Club. There we had a hardy breakfast that actually got us through lunch. After…
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Wandering Around The West – Day 1
Today was the easy day. I pretty much knew that we’d end up in Bend, Oregon, on the first night. There were thoughts of going north to the Olympic Peninsula, then up into Canada, but ultimately I didn’t want to run into cool/wet weather after experiencing it for the past several weeks. We left in…
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Long Mini Trip
I’ve previously posted about taking a long trip on the motorcycle. I figure that the week immediately following my upcoming half-marathon would probably be the week, if any, that I could do such a thing this summer. The rest of the weeks would be full of running nonsense that would make the trip untenable. Angie,…
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Long Way Round
One of Angie’s co-workers pointed us at the DVD for Long Way Round which details Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s preparations and journey from England through Russia, down through Alaska and Canada, finally ending up in New York. For any motorcycle rider the story is simply amazing as they travel on unpaved, barely existent roads…
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Germanification of Vehicles
I’ve had my trusty Harley Sportster for since 2005. It’s my first motorcycle. It’s led me through good times and bad times. I remember riding out of the dealership in IL without my motorcycle endorsement, no riding glasses, no jacket. I rode the motorcycle around and around the block getting a feel for how it…