Life is Full of Surprises – Vulture Edition
When you set off on a trip, do you take pictures of your motorcycle (or car) as if they are a travel companion? Looking back over the years, I have dozen of “start” photos...
Category: Motorcycle
Giant Old Gas Pump, Route 6 – Sylvania, Pennsylvania
If you are traveling along Route 6 in Pennsylvania, you will encounter a giant gas pump in the town of Sylvania. Obviously it isn’t a working pump and serves more as an eye-catcher. If...
Owl See You Around
Over the years, I have been asked many times how I find the funky, weird, and cool stuff I’ve posted about. My Google Map is full of pins or things that I’ve seen online...
The Old Meshoppen Firehouse – Route 6, Pennsylvania
When you don’t live in or routinely travel through a place you aren’t able to witness the incremental changes that occur there day in and day out. As a casual traveler who may only...
The Beautiful Welcome to Honesdale Mural – Pennsylvania
When I pulled in to the town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, my eyes were immediately drawn to this beautiful Welcome to Honesdale mural painted on the back of a building. I didn’t spot a date...
Riding into Sunflower Season
Here on Long Island, the eastern end of the land is split into two forks – the north and south, with each offering it’s own flavor. I live on the north shore and tend...
Thankfully, a Break in the Heat
After a stretch of oppressive heat and humidity here on Long Island, the past week has been a much welcomed change. We’ve been enjoying a break with cooler temps and thankfully lower humidity. Seeing...
That Time I Unexpectedly Saw the London Bridge
When traveling, most of the time I don’t have a route mapped out. Depending on how I am traveling, like flying and renting, or riding from home, the shape of my trip may vary...
Pitstop at the Chiriaco Summit Coffee Shop
Sometimes in life you find yourself in a place where you don’t have enough in the tank to move forward so your only chance of making it is turning back. This is true both...
This is Nuts! Or – Why My FZ07 Wasn’t Feeling So Hot
A few weeks ago, I left the house on a ride. Before making it little more than a mile, I gave my little FZ a little nudge beyond 6,000 rpm the bike began to...
Replacing my Shark with a Shark
After five years of hittin’ the road together, it was time to replace my long in the tooth Shark Evoline helmet. We’d been a lot of great places together, seen myriad interesting things, but...
I’ll See Your Angel Queen and Raise You a Lodestar
When I stood in the whipping wind off of the Salton Sea, I had no idea what I would find on the streets of Bombay Beach. From the vantage point of the welcome sign,...
On the Trail of the Whispering Giants
What is a Whispering Giant? The Whispering Giants are a collection of sculptures created by artist Peter Wolf Toth. Toth, who was born in Hungary, began his mission to create a statue honoring indigenous...
Sightings: Patch Whisky and Ghostbeard
Walking the tightrope between being an evangelist and a flat out psycho is tricky. And I’m not quite sure if one persons evangelist is another persons psycho but, I have my suspicions. Stop and...
Big Legs and the Janey Waney
The first time that I ever saw Legs, the Larry Rivers piece found on a private home in Sag Harbor, we’d passed it by chance on our way out to Montauk back in 2012....
Blogging for the Future – Documenting the Now
Blogging about the sites seen while out and about is like writing a history book in real time. While out for a little jaunt in the sunshine yesterday, I passed through the town of...
The Little Red Lighthouse – Jeffrey’s Hook – New York City
Daytripping to the Little Red Lighthouse Being able to get outside and ride a bicycle is always a bright spot. It’s truly a simple pleasure and a wonderful way to get out, to explore,...
Rest Easy, AntiHero – Dennis Matson
For a couple years in the 20-teens, it seemed like you couldn’t go anywhere in the online motorcycling community and not stumble across images of Dennis Matson (also known as “AntiHero”) on blogs and...
Epic Ghost Sign Photo Post
Take a stroll through a downtown, and you might just find yourself transported to another era by the faded letters and graphics of a ghost sign. These vintage advertisements, often painted directly onto brick...
Warner’s Macaroni Barn Advertising – New York
What was Warner’s Macaroni? While researching this weathered old advertising barn I’d seen, I inadvertently fell down a macaroni shaped rabbit hole. It’s funny how that happens when you try to find out more...
