Uncle Sam Muffler Man – Happy Fourth of July
While I was cruising around the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, I stopped to visit the Rockwood, PA Muffler Man at the Scottyland RV Resort. Kenny and I passed there once before a few winters ago...
Category: Sights from the Road
Unexpected Roadside Visits: World’s Largest Chest of Drawers
While in the city of High Point, NC during the Void Rally 9, one of my bonus locations was the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers. The socks dangling out of it are apparently 6 feet...
2014: Roadside Awesomeness Extravaganza
Any motorcycle ride that is punctuated by seeing something totally silly, funky or ridiculous on the road is a-okay in my book. These are some of the nifty stops I made this year: Gnome...
Travel Planning: Offbeat Museums
Since turning 40, it seems like I have become highly sensitive about squeezing all the fun out of each day. There aren’t lots of things that I really want. Sure, “stuff” is nice but it...
The Third Largest Garden Gnome… In the World
Oh, hey. Yeah, that’s me and my dude Chomsky. He’s like… the 3rd largest garden gnome. IN THE WORLD. No big whoop. Gnome on the Grange Gnome Chomsky at Kelder’s Farm 5755 Route 209...
Photo Gallery: Scenes from the Bucket List
My life’s To-Do List is a never-ending endeavor to see beautiful, fun, exciting, wondrous things in this world. Putting ideas on the list and daydreaming about them is almost as much fun as being able...
Throwback Thursday: Be Still My Heart, It’s a Burgermobile
Yeah, there’s a giant hamburgermobile filling up on pump one. No big whoop. Are you kidding me? My head almost exploded with the total greatness of serendipitously running into the hamburgermobile a few years back....
Sights from the Road: Super-Duper Patriotic House in Connecticut
Sometimes I don’t know what I’m thinking. I rode past this house last weekend and it took me about 1/4 of a mile to decide to swing back to get a better look and...
Is There a Registry of Air Mail Boxes?
If there isn’t, maybe there should be. I know of 3 such Air Mail boxes, all of which I stumbled across in the wild. Was there a time when these things were all the...
Scenes from a Fairy Tale – A Massachusetts Gingerbread House
During this year’s Berkshire Big Adventure ride, like Hansel and Gretel we followed the crumbs on a route sheet in and around the forrest. Through trees and ruts, mud and rocks we traversed the trail....
A Roadside Humdinger: Mobile Bacon and the Grassy Lick License Plate Barn
At the tail end of our Saturday ride with Kathy in West Virginia, she took us along one of her local favorites – Grassy Lick Rd. I was excited about that because it was...
Road Tripping: The Dreaded Sting of Flatness
It was just about dinner time and we’d been out riding all day. Kenny and I were just finishing up our last pitstop, taking a picture of a Mail Pouch barn at the edge...
Road Tripping: West Virginia Mail Pouch Barns
While we were in West Virginia, you can bet your boots that I had jotted down a few Mail Pouch barns that were in the general vicinity. West Virginia is the home of Mail Pouch...
The Teeny Post Office Files – Lost City, West Virginia
Before we left for West Virginia, I took a quick peek around Google Maps to see what was around the Romney area. While I don’t usually leave with a set plan of things that...
Hay, Santa! Cute Royal Enfield
Here on Long Island we’ve been on a weather roller coaster for the past few weeks. Temperatures have ranged from a downright balmy 60 degrees in the days before Christmas to… 5 like it...
New Jersey’s Cowtown Rodeo Muffler Man
Well, this is embarrassing. The Cowtown Rodeo cowboy and I showed up to the party wearing the same shoes. For its petite size, New Jersey is really full to the brim with silly roadside...
A Day in the Life – Will Ride For Nonsense
What is it about a giant, fiberglass peg-legged pirate that will make me ride 170 miles out of my way? Is that the dumbest sentence you’ve ever read? Sometimes my ‘reasons’ for riding must...
