Motorcycle diaries: living life, loving my life and growing old
This morning, I woke up to the comforting aroma of Mexican Chiapas coffee brewing—a warm reminder of the life I share with Patti and our chocolate dog, Lexi. As I settled onto the sofa with a freshly toasted and buttered bagel, several incoming texts caught my attention. Messages from Todd and Mike seemed to buzz […]
Read More Mixteco Motorcycle Ride And The Mexican Spirits“A mis queridos amigos que me acompañaron por los caminos de Espana. No los olvidaré.” INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the 1st of a few promised Spanish (Spain) dispatches. Once again for the uninitiated, Webster describes the word “dispatch”, as in a way to send off or away with speed, a messenger, an email; or any official […]
Read More Spain Motorcycle Ride Dispatch 1“This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak will perish, and only the fit survive.” – Robert Service of the Yukon Welcome to possibly my last of a series of badly written dispatches about our ride around Alaska. In all honesty it’s not an easy task […]
Read More Road to Alaska Inaugural Ride Recap Dispatch 9All 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 6
Trawlercat Chronicles 