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Closing the Distance: Reflections on the Crooked Mountain Adventure Rally
My motorcycle has become a distant friend that I call on once in a great while when looking for a specific connection. I don’t ride my motorcycles daily or even weekly anymore. Months sometimes go by and the dust settles on the tank. When I do go for rides, it’s often for rides that last…
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Looking Through Stone at Red River Gorge
I arrived in Stanton early, before the heat had gathered itself into the full wet authority of a Kentucky summer afternoon. Rose, my Indian Springfield, stood beside the…
Skyline Drive: An Eye of the Dragon
Motorcycling is a study in contradictions: the heat of the engine against the chill of mountain air, and the silence of the high ridge versus the pulse of…
North to Adventure: Fleeing Florida for the Alabama Mountains
Norden, nord, norte, north, is the cardinal direction I have piloted the Rhino, my BMW GSA, for the last four hours. I certainly have direction but not yet…
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Third Gear Therapy Around Wise, Virginia
The morning looked warmer from the hotel window. It always does. I stepped out onto the sidewalk in Wise, felt that sharp little edge in the mountain air,…
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North to Adventure: Fleeing Florida for the Alabama Mountains
Norden, nord, norte, north, is the cardinal direction I have piloted the Rhino, my BMW GSA, for the last four hours. I…
Continue Reading North to Adventure: Fleeing Florida for the Alabama Mountains
Third Gear Therapy Around Wise, Virginia
The morning looked warmer from the hotel window. It always does. I stepped out onto the sidewalk in Wise, felt that sharp…
This old engine makes it on time: The Great Smoky Mountains Music Train departs
One of the most beautiful, poignant sounds to echo out into the ancient mountains of Western North Carolina is that of a…
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