Yesterday I did 250 miles and wasn’t feeling too bad – loaded up on ibuprofen. I actually did a 180-mile stint non-stop; which is really stupid as a I should have been stopping for water more frequently. Anyway, that put me within 100 miles of Seattle, so decided to push on. I have a friend…
Articles from September 2012
Yellowstone
In Canada now after having spent some time in Yellowstone and north through Montana. I spent time with an ecologist friend of mine in Yellowstone, went on some field trips with her and a park ranger who’d been there 30 years. It was great hearing about the changes he’s seen in the park over that…
Devil’s Tower
Gorgeous day in Yellowstone today, heading… somewhere, not sure yet. Beartooth Pass tomorrow. Just had a few days in Buffalo WY, got to offload most of the gear – wow, it’s like riding a WR450 after being used to the fully loaded weight. Speaking of which, it took a bit of getting used to. It…
Natural Attrition
I lost my favorite glasses in the crosswinds going across South Dakota. They were in a case clipped to the bike, and had been like that most of the trip with no problem, but one of the gusts whipped them away… this was in I-90. I knew roughly where I lost them. I went back…
I’m a South Dakotan!
I‘m now a South Dakotan! It took half a day, and $42, to get my drivers license and bike registration switched over. And that included a 100 mile round trip! Registration was done in Madison, drivers licence in Sioux Falls – so went to Madison and back to get titled this morning, and was out…
Going well so far, but only in Iowa…
Going well so far, but only in Iowa. Hard to believe I’m only making 250 miles a day on the Super Tenere, yet the last time I was out this way on the KLR I was (literally) busting my arse doing 500-700 miles a day. Something to do with having a lot of miles to…
Departure Day
This has been a few years in the planning, but finally, I’m out. Not really much of a plan, most of the work has been prepping the bike (and in this I include buying, and rejecting, a KLR and Suzuki DL650 V-Strom before settling on the S10), working out finances and whatever i might need for…
Leaving Home
Eleven years living in one city is a long time for me – it’s shocking how fast that time went. Seven years in the same house is even more weird. I got stuck with it in the settlement with my lovely wife when we divorced in 2007. By 2012 I was ready to get out of…
Choosing a Bike
I‘d been thinking about this trip for a long time, and by the time I was ready to do it my 2002 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 was a bit long in the tooth – 80,000 is a bit much to be starting a trip of… maybe another 80,000 miles. I loved it but it hadn’t always…