Days 41 – 49 Five Days in Montreal and the Final Leg Home
RIP Leonard Cohen – A Favored Son of Montreal The trip nearing an the end on day 41, I rode from North Bay, Ontario into Montreal, Quebec. It would be here that I would spend 5 days, four of them with my stepson Jason, exploring this beautiful, vibrant city. What a great time we had.…
Keep readingDay 40 – North Bay, Ontario
A Pleasant End to a Good Day on the Road It’s been six days and and quite a few miles since my last post – 1,286 miles to be exact. Day 35, 36, 37 – Grand Forks, North Dakota to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Not a particularly long ride, but interesting. Winnipeg is a pretty good size…
Keep readingDay 34 – Williston, North Dakota
On Wednesday, July 3, I set out from Kalispell, Montana for Havre, Montana, traveling through a lesser – though no less beautiful – chain of the Rockies. Hit rain for the first few hours of the ride, but light to moderate. This ride stuck mostly to mountain passes with the peaks rising up on either…
Keep readingMakeup Post – Day 32 – Kalispell, Montana
A LONG time since my last post which covered our time in Ventura, CA and the trip to the Sequoia National Forest. After Sequoia we had a one day stay in Santa Maria, CA before camping out in San Francisco for a couple of days. My sister Kathy was kind enough to play tour guide…
Keep readingDay 19 – Chillin’ in Ventura, CA
There have been a number of days since my last post and we have covered a lot of ground in that time. From Boulder, CO we traveled west across the Rockies to Grand Junction, CO, then to Salina, UT, from Salina to Ely, NV, from Ely to Bishop, CA, from Bishop, CA to Bakersfield, CA…
Keep readingDays 9, 10, 11 – Santa Fe, Canon City, Boulder
Roaring through the peaks,Wind whispers secrets, unseen,Roads to Boulder gleam Well, it was inevitable given the pace that we were attempting that sooner or later I would fall behind on the daily posts. We experienced the most spectacular rides yet through the Rockies as we made our way from Santa Fe to Canon City on…
Keep readingDay 8 – Roswell, NM to Santa Fe, NM
A good day today. Since we had a fairly short 191 miles to reach Santa Fe we spent a short time at the Roswell UFO museum, mostly because my daughter-in-law Rachel is more or less obsessed with UFOs and I could pick up a few Roswell related gifts for she and Kayden. The ride today…
Keep readingDay 7 – Amarillo, TX to Roswell, NM
Today was an easier ride than yesterday, around 213 miles. But – still very hot. Marshall snapped a shot of his dash display when we stopped for gas. I actually saw 107 on mine for quite a while. We started out the day at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. It’s hard to know what to…
Keep readingDay 6 – Clarksville, AR to Amarillo, TX
Winds howl, tires grip tight,treacherous heat fills endless roads,Amarillo nears Today’s ride to Amarillo was around 500 miles, with temperatures reaching as high as 104 degrees F and Marshall plagued by intense cramps. As we approached Amarillo we were racing a severe thunderstorm to see which of us made it to Amarillo first, us or…
Keep readingDay 5 – The Ozark Route
Today, based in our landing spot of Clarksville, AR, we set out on a 279 mile tour of the Ozarks. I copied this route from one an avid writer who had posted the route on the net. Lingering night time rain caused us to push out our desired early start until after 9AM. But, once…
Keep readingDay 4 – Memphis, TN to Clarksville, AR
A rough start this morning when I misplaced my GPS, but eventually I found it buried in a side case and we were able to recover. We were expecting rain for most of our route today – but it did not materialize and we were very happy about that. We covered four states today, Tennessee,…
Keep readingDay 3 – Cleveland, TN to Memphis, TN
A good start this morning, just after 8am. We are getting more efficient with the repacking process but its still one of the more time consuming tasks we encounter. An aggravating glitch with the Garmin Zumo XT GPS. I create the routes for each day with Basecamp, a software package to create downloadable routes for…
Keep readingDay 2 – Spartanburg, SC to Cleveland, TN
Packing – Packing for a months long motorcycle trip is an art that is not easily mastered my most, and I think Marshall and I fit into the “most” category. When I took my first cross-country trip in 2018 my brothers accused me of taking the “Beverly Hillbillies” approach to packing as evidenced below. I…
Keep readingDay 1 – Willis, VA to Spartanburg, SC
This morning was, as Thais will attest to, hectic. Though I certainly spent a lot of time on preparation, you wouldn’t have known it with my last minute scurrying. Met Marshall at around 9:20am at Willis, VA and the trek began. I did want to give a big thank you to Thais, for putting up…
Keep readingA NEW ADVENTURE – USA/CANADA MOTORCYCLE TRIP 2024
Back in the spring of 2018 I completed a contract project at the Jeep plant in Toledo and I was ready for some time off. One of my first goals was purchasing dirt bikes for my 10 year-old grandson and I, which turned into a fantastic bonding opportunity that lasted up through 2023 as he…
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Adventures of an Old Man 