Making My Way Toward Route 6
When I woke up and looked out the window, there was a cool fog hanging over everything. The world around me was still asleep when I set off for the day. Because it’s August...
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New Jersey Pine Barrens: Scenes from the Firetower
On Sunday we spent the afternoon dirt riding in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Our friend Jeff took us to one of the firetowers that are out in the woods. Being the chicken...
Sunday Funday in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
On Sunday Kenny and I packed our little dirty bikes into the truck and set of for the pine barrens in New Jersey. Our destination was Wharton State Forest. But not before stopping by...
Big Kids Playing in the Puddles
At some point you just come to terms with your shortcomings. I will never be a confident dirt rider. There is something about the looseness of it that I cannot give myself over to....
Trailside Snapshots – Meeting Some Four Legged Friends
We’re From the Internet. We Come in Peace. You make me feel like sayin’… FOXY On our last dirt ride, while I was standing around having a drink I saw something scuttling across the...
2012 Berkshire Big Adventure Ride
On Friday, we packed up the Ridgeline with our bikes, the kid and the dog and headed north to Massachusetts for a weekend of friends, food and riding. Our home away from home was a cute...
Wishful Thinking: One More For The To Do List – Teakettle Junction
A few weekends ago a friend posted a photo on Facebook of a motorcycle ride he’d taken in Death Valley. The picture was a group of friends in their riding gear in front of...
Squee! Sleepy Little Husky Takes a Nap
Aww, look at that cute little face just napping away there. Don’t you just want to hug it? Wook at dat wittle face. Who’s a cute wittle Husky? That’s right! You are! 🙂
Husqvarna TE 310: The Honeymoon Phase
Let’s just get this out of the way, shall we? I am not brave. There. It is no secret that I have had confidence problems all throughout my dirt time with the DRZ. No...
Day 26: The New and the Old – #29in29
Today I got my first taste of what the TE 310 feels like. Kenny’s KTM is waiting to have its fork seals replaced so he opted to ride the DRZ. The new and the old....
Day 13: Drop In, Pop Out – #29in29
There is a funny thing the happens to the look of terrain in a photo. – click pix to embiggen – When you’re standing there in person looking over the edge of a drop,...
Day 8: This is the Coolest Motorcycle Chick I Know – #29in29
I often wonder what it’ll be like for her someday when she thinks back to the time when she first learned to ride a dirtbike as a kid. Will she be a lifelong motorcyclist?...
Sunday Trail Riding With the Family
Every time that we go out trail riding as a family, I come home with a little more amazement about how children learn to do things. Riding along behind Chloe I’m so fascinated by...
Riding Motorcycles With My Daughter is Heaven
2011 marked a big change when my daughter Chloe started riding motorcycles.
Taking the Whole “Stick in the Mud” Thing Too Far
Yeah, yeah. So I may have gotten my bike slightly stuck in a mud hole on Saturday during the Hammer Run in Jersey. The trails were dry with a few small spots of water...
The AltRider Giant Loop Adventure Ride – Pennsylvania Style
What better way to spend a Wednesday than behind the bars of your motorcycle? On the eve of the BMWMOA event in Bloomsburg, Pa. – AltRider hosted it’s 2nd Annual Giant Loop Adventure Ride...
2011 Berkshire Big Adventure Dual Sport
I opened my eyes around 6:30 on Sunday morning. I could hear the tap, tap, tap of raindrops on the roof of the RV. As my brain started coming around my thoughts immediately went...
Saturday Warm-up to the Berkshire Dual Sport Ride
Bright and early on Saturday morning , with the bikes loaded into the “Free Candy” van Kenny and I made our way to the Port Jeff ferry. We were meeting up with F’n Hal...
The Offroad Noobie Blues
The Berkshire Big Adventure dual sport ride was challenging at times and introduced me to terrain that would have been outside of what I would say is my comfort zone.
The Joy of Being a Motorcycle Momma
Chloe has never asked for a dirt bike of her own so getting one for her birthday was a big surprise.
