Southern Trip Stats – Y’all Come Back Now, Hear?
Last Saturday, Kenny and I rolled our Tigers out of the driveway and headed below the Mason-Dixon line without much of a plan. We had 2 definite items on the plate: I wanted to...
Postcards from the Road: Virginia is for Motorcycle Lovers! #LoveVa
Greetings from sunny Virginia. Apparently on the heels of their Virginia is for Lovers campaign of many years, the State of Virginia has adopted “Love is at the heart of every Virginia vacation.” With...
Postcards From The Road: Land of the Lost
Greetings from Dinosaurland! Whitepost, Va. Saturday June 2, 2012 Hi Y’all! Having a great time moseying around below the Mason-Dixon line. We’re makin’ some new friends along the way. When you see a T-Rex...
Dreams Do Come True: Visiting the Haines Shoe House
There is no rhyme or reason why some things take up residence in your imagination. For years now, I have had a hankering to visit the Haines Shoe House. Kenny and I passed it...
The GPS Files: It’s In Your Pocket, Dummy
I would like to introduce you to my nemesis: You folks who also have Garmin Zumo GPS’ know exactly what this is. It’s the little screwdriver tool that you use to “unlock” the GPS...
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...
Name That KTM Motorcycle Garden Gnome
This rockin’ gnome lives in my friend (and KTM KoolAid drinker) F’n Hal’s RV and greets people when they enter his campsite. Can you believe this little guy doesn’t have a name? Have any suggestions?
File Under: Is This Thing On? GoPro Self Portrait at 30 MPH
While sorting through GoPro pictures that were snapped during the 2012 Berkshire Big Adventure over the weekend I found another “Is This Thing On” self-portrait: I have mastered the ability to not know whether...
A Sign That I Need to Ride My Dirt Bike More
I went out to the garage to get my dirt boots this morning and found this~ I’d say I need to ride dirt more often, wouldn’t you? Hope there aren’t any spiders in there....
Pre-Weekend Shakedown Ride on the Husky
Yesterday I spent a grueling hour and a half at the DMV finally getting a plate for my Husky. It isn’t that I had to do battle with a clerk or anything, my transaction...
What’s In Your Motorcycle Gear Pockets?
Some people are tidy and organized in a way that I could never be. My motorcycle tankbag was always filled with scraps of paper, loose goldfish crackers, old receipts and junk that wasn’t necessary...
Blogging About Motorcycle Travel – For the Rest of Us
I read a mountain of motorcycle blogs each day. In the last couple of years there seems to be a trend that has emerged across some of them. It is the idea that in order to...
Newsflash – Girls Ride Motorcycles
On Sunday morning I hopped on my bike to head out to Captree Park to meet my dear friend Bill for coffee. The Captree parking lot serves as an informal hang for motorcycle and...
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...
A Brush With Greatness: Meeting the Wienermobile
Some dreams are gigantic, epic undertakings that take a lifetime to complete if they can ever even be completed. Then there are other dreams that are just simple bits of whimsy. Wishes, if you...
Do Women Who Ride Motorcycles Find It Easier to Get Dates?
I received a comment from long time motorcycle rider BobbyN who asks the following: In a previous life I was a bartender for a large theme restaurant in NYC. I worked with a lot of...
I Think It’s Time For Us To Go Somewhere
I feel like Kenny and I haven’t gone anywhere or done any riding in the longest time. Of course, it was winter. Sort of. But, it’s time; time for us to think about hitting...
The Living the Goes Into Motorcycle Helmets
When you consider that you might have a helmet for say, 4 years – there is a lot of living that goes on during that time. Many roads traveled, friendships made, time shared and...
Muffler Man: Checking in with the Jackson, NJ Halfwit
Over the last few weekends my travels have added two more checks in the “Visited” column of my Muffler Man to-do list. There are still plenty more to see but I’m enjoying picking them...
Muffler Man: Mohawk Motors Indian of Shirley, Ma.
A few weekends ago I took a ride with some friends who wanted to stop in to the open house at MotoMarket in Acton, Ma. Since I had no interest in buying anything I...