Motorcycle diaries: living life, loving my life and growing old
All the occupants of a broken-down bus now spilled out onto the road, they all seem to be focused on us, applauding our little ride group of four as we ride in on three near identical Kawasaki Versys and a Dacar to Paris looking KTM. Perhaps they mistook us as firefighters. I’m still wearing Luis’ […]
Read More Alaska Motorcycle Ride Dispatch 6There are many jokes that center around older adults waking up before the sun, and even more about teenagers’ late-sleeping habits. I now wonder how people in these parts deal with nearly 24 hours of daylight. I haven’t seen it get dark yet. Roberto 1 seems to be more affected by two things the farther […]
Read More (revised) Road to Alaska Dispatch 7Bright early (0630) and cold we departed White Horse, Canada. Or, at least that’s the way it was supposed to be but, NOT. Roberto and I were on our way towards coffee (0545) at a Tim Hortons when I noticed a peculiar sound coming from my rear chain area. It seemed like every revolution of […]
Read More Road to Alaska Dispatch 8“Far away is far away only if you don’t go there.” O Povo Fortaleza, Brazil Welcome to dispatch four of our Alaska ride. And now we are four riders and Gpskevin on a support vehicle starting out from Prince George, Canada together. Three riders on Kawasaki Versys and one on a KTM 690. Two riders […]
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