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 […]

Olympic Motorcycle Ride 9/11/2021

We woke up early in Menlo Park, California but, by the end of the day, four of us riders, Roberto, Mike, Dave and I traveled 662 miles to Portland, Oregon. We met Ovi, the Store Manager from Motoquest Portland when we arrived and he joined us for dinner and drinks. Motoquest is an outfit that […]

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 […]

Tiny Shed Projects

My new vision for a proper storage shed came to me when we visited the Garden gallery in Morro bay, California. What I liked most of all was the simplicity of the way the plants and items for sale were shown. Gallery like. Open space with lots of calm interspersed. Gone now is a desire […]

RIP Lucy the Chocolate Lab

…Losing Lucy. As in, “even gruff Papa now feels heartbreaking grief that the twelve year old family dog has died.” Not one but, two handwritten signs are now tacked up on large sycamore trees within a tenth of a mile of each other. I first saw the labs for sale signs on a lonesome country […]

WhatsApp/Good bye Pandemic/Fictional ADHD RIDERS/Trip Planning 101/ADHD

Subject: Motocamping 101 Our little Motorcycle Riding group chat thread is developed on a WhatsApp app. All in this fictional ADHD RIDERS group can now communicate, and comment their desires; to also join in on the ride, or do their magic, and unceremoniously derail the entire thread by writing about anything that enters their brain […]