Just Another Day on the PCT/Circa 2011

Last night I slept by a water cache spot on the Pacific Crest Trail. The area is totally barren and the current temperatures are easily above 100 degrees. Trail Angels supply the area with plastic gallon containers of drinking water. I easily saw how one could go from a fit hiker to a casualty, heat […]

Memories of Loma de la Cruz, Holguin Cuba

And on a second visit to Cuba we land in the province of Holguin; I’m armed this time with cousins, whom years ago experienced first hand the island’s rise of communism, as young children. Their father, my Uncle died of dementia on the Florida mainland. Thankfully, he enjoyed many fruitful years of life, watching his […]

The Free Spirit Phenomena

On a Jeep trip to the Yukon, in 2011, I suddenly discover the “free spirit” phenomena; it’s not a myth, it actually does exist, and her name was Carol. We are a group of maybe ten jeep adventurers now walking towards the admission area to partake in a glacier tour, on massive tundra wheeled behemoths. […]

Wow- What a Summer/2020

Wow, what a summer. Quickly, I’ll blame it on two things or rather one thing and one event. Covid. Purchasing a new BMW GSA 1250 motorcycle. “The average Joe thinks that just riding a motorcycle on a public highway is only slightly less dangerous than searching for land mines with a butter knife. A motorcycle […]

Poor Boys Yacht Club Hall of Fame

Subject: Poor Boys Yacht Club Hall of Fame Sometime within the past ten years my friend Bill and I visit the mast up storage yard at Marina Del Rey, California, where he maintains his sailboat, a 26′ MacGregor. This small trailerable sailboat is known as a power sailor because it is capable of doing over […]

On Giving Blood/Power Red

A man who is good enough to shed blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. – Theodore Roosevelt So what’s today’s inspiration for giving blood? They say the need is great. Help a cancer patient as Cancer patients are among the most common recipients of blood transfusions. … […]

Outlived the Bastards/RIP Aunt Dora

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast…. a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While […]

Chocolate Clams and Hole in the Wall

Some or most easily state: This is a first-rate “hole in the wall”. Some may argue. Let’s see, for no arguments sake, traditional desert landscape dirt floor; check; open air and real wood fire, rustic as in no propane used for cooking wood fire; double-check. Wood now smoldering like in the kind of […]

The Baja Bash – April 29,2017

The “BAJA BASH” by Robert Delamotte Definition: The typically unpleasant butt-kicking endured by mariners traveling north up the Baja peninsula from Cabo San Lucas to San Diego, often consisting of 800 or so nautical miles worth of 20+ knot winds on the nose, pounding waves, and a strong current running in the wrong direction. “Oh, […]

V2.0 Day(s) 1/2/3 Rawhyde Adventures/Long Beach BMW/ Traveling Kits

Recently I read a story about Gleb Travin who travelled around the USSR and the arctic for three years on a bicycle in the years 1929-1931. His bike trip started out in Vladivostok, and then continued along the southern border of Russia. And today on a 100 degree Friday afternoon in the year of our […]

#52 of 52 Taco Tuesday Ride/Presidential Debates/Hollywood Sign

My motorcycle says it’s now 104 degrees in the shade (5:00 p.m.) at the Chevron station on Hwy 60 and Haven Street. Elvis and I admire and complement each other on our now stationery large and impressive BMW motorcycles. Recently we each committed to joining a rolling group ride organized by Coach Ho to partake […]

Day 5 – Arches/America’s Autobahn/Bryce Canyon/Caboose Village/Butch Cassidy

My morning started in Moab with an early breakfast at the world famous jailhouse cafe. I enjoyed their famous waffles. The three others that I’m riding with like to enjoy their sleep allot more than taking in the rising sun; and don’t seem to do breakfast other than morning coffee. So far I’ve travelled alone […]