Adventure Motorcycle Travel Stories, Living Life and Growing Older .
Hail, freezing rain, and sunshine now hit us like a weather sampler platter within the same brutal hour as Lucy—my chocolate Lab sidekick—and I tackled the wilds of Beacon Rock and the Cape Horn Trail along Highway 14 on the Washington side of the Columbia River. Mother Nature couldn’t make up her mind, swinging between […]
Read More Lucy Dog and Columbia River Beacon Rock HikeTrawlercat Chronicles – Big Pine Key, Florida Keys – March 7, 2012 No matter how meticulously you plan a cross-country road trip, life has a way of reminding you that preparation is an illusion. In March 2012, my newly retired wife, Patti, and I—along with our two loyal dogs, Lucy and Jessie, a pair of […]
Read More BIG PINE KEY, FLORIDA KEYS ROAD TRIP“Halfway to Everywhere: Reflections on the Road and the Universe’s Conspiracy” This morning, as I navigated my Jeep through the gentle patter of Southern California rain along a quiet country road, a song crackled through the radio, its refrain looping in my mind: We are all halfway to somewhere, halfway to healing, and even halfway […]
Read More “Halfway to Everywhere: Reflections on the Road and the Universe’s Conspiracy”What more can I express? We caught a fleeting glimpse of it from a side angle during our Uber ride from the Lisbon airport to our hotel situated in the heart of Lisbon, Portugal. I couldn’t help but exclaim, “I want to visit that!” much like a child who spots an exhilarating amusement park ride […]
Read More Thoughts of Mom, Little Buddy Rules – Portugal Visit
Trawlercat Chronicles 