Today is B-day – Batopilas day. Seems like is it kind of a challenging road, rough dirt winding down the side of the canyon to Batopilis at the bottom. I’m trying to tip the odds in my favor by leaving most of the gear in the hotel at Guanchochi. Cheating I know, but not in…
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Into Mexico (Again)
Entering Mexico for the second time in a week, this time through Nogales, south of Tucson. My entry to Baja the week before was planned that way because, although I wasn’t “scared” of Mexico, I thought it might be better to avoid the northern border region. That’s where a lot of the trouble is, no sense…
Shocking News
Ok so I had an exciting weekend, fitting a new Ohlins rear shock and Sonic springs. I was very lucky to find on the Super Tenere forum that a guy had crashed his bike and was parting it out – including a 200-mile-old Ohlins rear shock. Part was dispatched and arrived in San Diego on…
Mexico and Baja Dirt
So up to now it’s been a very very nice trip. But it’s not really an “adventure” until the unexpected happens and you have to figure out how to deal with it. I’m now in Mexico, so I’m expecting the unexpected! First up – I was told by Al Jesse that the east coast of…
USA Done!
That was 10,000 miles between DC and San Diego… awesome scenery, fun roads, near-perfect motorcycle, fabulous weather, great people along the way. Almost everything went to plan (travel tip – don’t plan very much, and there’s less chance of things not going according to plan). I had the kidney stone issues to deal with in…
Milerton Lake and Nervy Cops
Arrived here looking for a camp site at 5pm, almost dark already. The touch screen machine at the gate was happy to take my credit card and charge me $30 for a site. Proceeding down the road I passed 5 turnoffs to camping areas, all gated and “closed for the season”. What to do? Dark…
Canada and Kidney Stones
From Yellowstone it was north through beautiful Montana and on to Calgary – which is where my problems started. I rolled into my host’s driveway – having never met in person, just on the internet – barely able to stop myself throwing up inside my helmet. That would have been a nice how-do-you-do! I kept…
All Fixed!
I spent a pleasant couple of days around the Cascade Mountains – beautiful country and the weather has been perfect. Sunday evening saw me back in Seattle, at a hostel downtown. Two reasons – I still needed to see the Boeing factory, and… Monday was stent-removal day, and I’m a pussy and wanted to be…
Seattle – bye Kidney Stones!
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…
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…