A BBQ Motorcycle Ride To Lake Arrowhead

Not long before arriving at our meet up spot I notice the temperature rising and keep an eye on it. At 0930 it was already 88 degrees. Earlier I walked away from a tweaker chick. She was parked nearby in the shady side; she exited her car mumbling to me that I was riding her […]

Baja Burro Mulege to San Ignacio Part III

Our journey riding motorcycles down Baja is for some of us, a chance to push ones limits, on roads not to US standards or with adequate signage that don’t coddle you when you take those twisties maybe just a tad bit too fast for your skillset. Welcome to riding adventure motorcycles in Baja Mexico. What […]

A Camino Story – Santiago de Compostela and the Old Woman

Suddenly up ahead, I spot this perfect image of what, if only in my mind, constitutes an old grandmotherly peasant woman. She is walking the camino route and holding onto a stick cane for some support. I assume her home is somewhere nearby and she was just visiting a neighbor. And without much fuss or […]

Contentment/Kids/Dogs and Motorcycles

“I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” —MORPHEUS, THE MATRIX The contentment question. Are you now content and why? I offer up this question while watching two year old Wyatt scurry this way and that way; he looks […]

Sundials/Time/California Missions

“And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it’s sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death…”. – Pink Floyd Recently I visited the Santa Barbara mission and […]

Expeditions/Missions/Voyage/Fleet Tavaru 2011/Wet Dog/Jeep Expedition

“Do the difficult things while they are still easy to do and do the great things while they are also small. And also don’t forget to do them if you can while you are still young of mind, body and soul. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao […]