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 several days, and I spend many hours re-familiarizing myself with the machine saddled … [Read more...] about Closing the Distance: Reflections on the Crooked Mountain Adventure Rally
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Sunflowers & sunsets: The road to West Virginia
When I started riding motorcycles more than 15 years ago, I planned to go from a small town in Massachusetts to the furthest parts of the opposite coastline in Oregon and California. That was always the goal: to go as far and to see as much as was possible without a map, without a deadline, without a job or obligation to anchor or call me back home. I wanted to be overrun with … [Read more...] about Sunflowers & sunsets: The road to West Virginia
