Right on the heels of my hotly anticipated (?), and amazingly tardy, epic work Overland Expo 2016, I give you my notes from short notes from OE 2017. During the 2016 trip I took notes, by day, of the places we stayed and things we did. Towards the end of the trip it was wearing [...]
Overland Expo 2016
Admittedly I'm a bit tardy writing this -- like two years tardy. But doesn't somebody say "better late than never?" As I'm sitting here writing this on a rainy day, two years later, I can still clearly remember the journey to and from OE West 2016. Overland Expo, for those of you not familiar is [...]
Home sweet home, if only for a little while
Back in Portland and everything is right with the world. After surviving a creepy night at the Bates Motel wannabe, I woke early and hit the road at the earliest time yet (7:45AM). It was only 35-ish degrees when I pulled out and started my trip and I was quickly finding myself shivering despite [...]
Thwarted at John Day again
Today is my second overnight in John Day, OR. When I'm traveling by motorcycle I typically stay at a Best Western. It's a known quantity and I don't have to worry if I'm going to end up at a murder palace. Today was a surprisingly good day. Per my revised plan, with input from Angie, [...]
I’ve always wanted to see Northern Nevada in Spring
Math won. Doesn't math always win though? OK, so there is the Common Core Curriculum so perhaps math doesn't always win, but it definitely has the upper hand. After I wrote my post last night I went out to Google Maps and counted, the old fashioned way, the number of days it would take me [...]