Sights from the Road: Love Road
Located on the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia are Love Gap and Love Road. I just couldn’t pass by without taking a photo! Is there any better name for a...
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The Post-Road Trip Hangover
When setting off on a road trip your imagination is full of best laid plans and wonder. There is an excitement that takes over your thoughts as you watch your shadow riding along with...
Muffler Man: Plantation Man from Chicopee, Mass.
A few weeks back a commenter named Bill left me a note on my Muffler Man Photo Gallery asking where the big man from Chicopee, Massachusetts was. Well, Bill – here he is: I snagged him...
Dancing with Strangers on the Road
Riding your motorcycle instead of your office chair feels a little extra sweet, doesn’t it? On this particular Wednesday after hopping off the ferry and heading north I found myself heading up route 8...
The Long Shadows Were Calling Me Home
When the shadows start getting long, that’s when I start missing home. I continuously walk the line of having the curiosity of a person who likes to wander and one whose heartstrings reel them...
Welcome Back to the Empire State
Following the Hancock Highway, I crossed the border from Pennsylvania into New York in the town of Hancock. For hours and hours, my belly had been growling. I felt the pasty, dry, mouth that...
Sometimes You Have To Go It Alone
I sat on the curb in a Pennsylvania gas station and looked up at Bill. The backdrop behind him was a rolling green mountain, under the brightest blue sky. We’d already put just about...
I Found More Love in West Virginia
It’s so perfect that I stumbled across this heart in a gas station in West Virginia. I found my first “heart and sole” picture in the same state in 2008. View some of the...
Laddering Across West Virginia
Rolling in through the town of Marlinton on route 39, I was disheartened to see that the lovely little train depot that had burned in 2008, was in the same state. I was hoping...
A Great Way To Start The Day – Heading West on Route 39
Breathing in deeply, the morning felt cool. As our wheels turned past the silent rolls of hay and red barns of the landscape, I felt like a giant. This was my day and anything...
Virginia Is For Motorcycle Lovers
When we left Long Island heading south, we were three. It was Graham, Bill and myself. We were set to meet up with the other Bill in Virginia, which we did on Saturday night...
Late Afternoon on the Blue Ridge Parkway
It’s really no wonder that the Blue Ridge Parkway was on AMA Magazine’s 15 Best Roads in America list. It is, in short, a great ride. 469 miles from top to bottom of beautiful riding.
Not Quite a Double Rainbow, But…
… I was pretty excited about it anyway. After riding around West Virginia all day, we made our way to Chambersburg, Pa. and got rooms for the night. It was there that a full...
On the Road: A Perfect Moment in Virginia
Sometimes during the course of a ride, you get the distinct feeling that you are bearing witness to a perfect moment in time.
On the Road: The Sunrise Outside My Window
When I got up and looked outside of my hotel window this morning, the sun was rising over the gauzy backdrop of the Blue Ridge mountains. Squeezed beneath the hotel entry way sat bikes...
