Motorcycle diaries: living life, loving my life and growing old
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”– Agatha Christie This is an attempt at a recap as I now see it. Outside the light is extremely bright even though the […]
Read More Road to Alaska Final DayThis morning Freddy from Mexico City had a near mishap. No, not with a roadside Alaskan wild animal like the kind we have already encountered; a bear, moose, wild horses, squirrel or fox but, with a roadside Chevron pump. He initially mistook the diesel pump for the unleaded fuel; and then it was nearly all […]
Read More Highway to Anchorage Dispatch 1There 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 7“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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Trawlercat Chronicles 