36 Hours in Big Sur, California

No matter where you live, Highway 1 through the Big Sur region in Central Coastal California, should be on your bucket list. This is a ride of a lifetime on any kind of transportation be it bicycles or motorcycles and mere words cannot do this place justice, plus October is the best month of the […]

The LONG Ride Home

“The motorcycle is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it wrote the Author John Steinbeck”. All most people with transportation toys, like cars, motorcycles, horses and bicycles lack is a destination. It’s not just enough to ride; we need goals, a mecca, if you will. This story […]

Day 6 Olympic peninsula ride

In Sequim Washington for the night where the outside weather is a toasty 50 degrees now, with a mix of freezing rain. Yesterday the hotel front desk clerk must’ve really liked us stinking bikers, because she offered us up her best rooms, on the second floor. She also mentioned that too many dog people have […]

Day 5 Olympic Motorcycle Ride

Our planned ride today is to Neah Bay with planned lodging at Sequim, Washington. It’s near the John Wayne marina and our next mornings ferry boat ride to Port Townsend. It’s 41 degrees outside at 0630 with a 70% chance of rain in the forecast. As soon as I step out of my room I […]

Day 4 – Olympic peninsula ride

The riders were ready to go and ready for coffee at 0700 but, unfortunately for us the lodge wasn’t. They serve coffee starting at 0900; coffee is available in the rooms but, its all decaffeinated. Last nights dinner options at the lodge in the woods included six varieties of fresh caught salmon but, it was […]

Olympic peninsula ride day 1

Southern California to Menlo Park, CADay 1: Wednesday, September 7, 2021509 miles “Life is not always linear, and on reflection, it is often in fact, the zig-zags that occur, that are the most interesting to me.” Trawlercat At o dark thirty I quietly roll my BMW GSA 1250 Adventure bike out of the garage, and […]