Motorcycle diaries: living life, loving my life and growing old
Trawlercat Chronicles – Big Pine Key, Florida Keys – March 7, 2012 No matter how meticulously you plan a cross-country road trip, life has a way of reminding you that preparation is an illusion. In March 2012, my newly retired wife, Patti, and I—along with our two loyal dogs, Lucy and Jessie, a pair of […]
Read More BIG PINE KEY, FLORIDA KEYS ROAD TRIPThe Long Way Home “The motorcycle is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it,” wrote the author John Steinbeck. I’ve been mulling over those words lately, letting them roll around in my head like the hum of my bike’s engine on a long stretch of road. There’s […]
Read More The Long Way Home – A Motorcycle Ride StoryThis 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 SpiritsThere’s a huge sense of relief in me now that I’m almost off the Dempster Highway. The most miserable gravelly road into Tuktoyaktuk is long past. Letting another ten pounds of air out of my front tire did the trick. The near white out conditions created by any truck, RV or large vehicles coming my […]
Read More The Dempster Highway is in the books.
Trawlercat Chronicles 