Adventure Motorcycle Travel Stories, Living Life and Growing Older .
Places Traveled Today: Miles Ridden: “Is there any need for me now to explain? I think you can guess why I’m now feeling like I am.” “No, I can’t. Well, first off, the yanquis took half of my country away in 1848. You can’t continue to keep moping over it.” “Well why not?” – Anonymous. […]
Read More Tucson to Obregon, Sonora Motorcycle Ride- Dispatch 1“If everything seems under control, you aren’t going fast enough” ~ Author unknown We must be crazy, extremely passionate for the sport or maybe a little bit of both. Roberto set the alarm clock for 0500. Why so early I asked, we’re not even legally allowed on the lake until daylight. He said it takes […]
Read More Watercraft Ride Lake Powell – December 2023“If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” —Muhammad Ali The roads we were on yesterday getting to our eco resort was one of the most scenic or boring roads at the same time this side of the Guatemala border. Picture a two lane highway winding through the jungle with […]
Read More Dispatch from Chiapas Day 11In Costa Rica or at least in Dos Rios Guanacaste howler monkeys instead of roosters are your wake up call. If your builder screws up without doing a proper ecological survey you may suddenly end up at the corner of Dos Rios and monkey highway. A monkey highway may be your wake up call from […]
Read More Costa Rica Motorcycle Ride Day 5“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – M Oliver Today is a gorgeous Thursday morning in Creel and we are in a new time Zone; it’s cold outside and my BMW GSA 1250 is running great. We stayed last night and we are staying in […]
Read More Creel to Barrancas Del Cobre Motorcycle Ride Day 5 – Part IToday we are in Batopilas on a Sunday morning. We woke up at 0530 a.m. to go on a hike to a nearby silver mine before the day got too hot. Today will be a See, Touch, Smell, Taste day. All senses will be on overdrive. The hike started up an arroyo canyon towards the […]
Read More Batopilas to El Fuerte Motorcycle Ride Day 7“If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” —Muhammad Ali Today is the last day of our 9 day MotoVermont ride. Ben and Jerry’s was certainly not part of our planned itinerary but, the “must visit pickings” after riding through five states are now few. No trip to Vermont would […]
Read More MotoVermont Ride Final Day 9/24/22Years from now my older self will want to know that on these dates and times my younger self died today pushing a KTM 690 motorcycle up a steep incline at over 5,000 feet of elevation; just a mere mile from the gas pumps, in the town of Kinnear, Wyoming, population of 44. Even the […]
Read More Wyoming Back Country Discovery Motorcycle Ride Days 1-4If you are over 50 years old then maybe you may remember that when you were a kid there were millions and millions of bright, beautiful and colorful stars up in the night sky. You could look up and see them. Well let me remind you that those same stars are probably still there! Only […]
Read More Wyoming BDR PART IIA Motorcycle Ride to Mexico “We now live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go” – Astronaut Jim Lovell (Gemini 7 and 12; Apollo 8 and 13). That quote above about sums it up about our recent ride throughout Mexico. From SoCal I […]
Read More A Motorcycle Ride To Mexico – January 2024
Trawlercat Chronicles 