Motorcycle diaries: living life, loving my life and growing old
Subject: A Personal Note: Closing the Chapter on Trawlercat (With Gratitude) Dear Family, Friends, and Fellow Travelers, After some quiet reflection, I’ve decided it’s time to bring the Trawlercat blog to a gentle close. I started it back in 2016, back when it was free and the writing came easy. Over the years the platform […]
Read More A Personal Note: Closing the Chapter on Trawlercat (With Gratitude)When I turn seventy-one and end up on some forgettable park bench in Southern California, my grandson Wyatt might roll his eyes and call bullshit when I spin this tale. And there we were; three of us on BMW Adventure bikes, one on a Ducati and the other a KTM ripping out of our home […]
Read More Discovering Mexico 20: Our Private Slice of Backcountry Gold in SonoraMemories of our best chocolate lab Lucy wasn’t a religious dog, but in her own way, she was profoundly spiritual. For most of her puppyhood and adolescence, she lived with us in a tiny home at the Point Fermin end of San Pedro. Every week, like clockwork, she’d tilt her head up and stare at […]
Read More Lucy The Chocolate LabOne final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Listen closely, friends—especially those of us carrying seventy (70) or more good years of age on these bones. Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast, a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. This doesn’t mean that you’ve grown soft or indifferent. It means that you’ve lived long […]
Read More RIP “Tia Dora’s Wisdom: Don’t Burn Out Beyond age Seventy – Ride, Stretch, Laugh, and Outlive the Bastards”Living aboard my trawler at Rocky Point Marina, on the Multnomah Channel of the Columbia River, I met Scott. He was a born-and-raised Portlander with a quick laugh and a taste for muddy trails, so naturally we became hiking partners. We knocked off the usual suspects—Multnomah Falls to Wahkeena—and a few quieter ones most guidebooks […]
Read More Stormy’s Second Chance: From the Columbia Bar to Alaska’s Inside Passage”V 1.0 2026 JAZ Ride Recap We rolled out of Tucson while the desert was still half asleep under a gray, grumpy sky. Dale and I were pointed east for Joey’s annual JAZ Ride. Joey + Arizona still equals JAZ, even if the route has quietly expanded into New Mexico and Utah over the years. […]
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