Long enough So I’ve been staring at my maps and computer long enough. It’s time to go on another practice trip. I wanted this trip to be down roads that were typical of the ones I was thinking of choosing for my trip, state highways and lesser traveled roads and somewhere between 300-400 miles. I […]
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Maps I kept looking at maps, at Google Maps, and websites. Which way to go? I thought of going one way, but then found a different way, then still another way. I was going to need to pin this down. I looked closely at my Michelin Road Atlas, Google Map, and maps that I requested
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Ready Now that I had accomplished my first camping trip, I was super eager to try more trips. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of farm animals to take care of. Before you go all crazy on me, I don’t mean anything bad by saying “unfortunately”. I adore all my animals and wouldn’t trade them for
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Practice My BFG and my own walking around sense told me that I should do some practice trips to see how it went, what I could improve on, what I might need help doing, and if I even liked camping out of a motorcycle. And, to that end, on the spur of the moment, I
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Vacation! Now that the animals are on the mend, it’s time to start thinking about my trip again. It seems to me after much consideration, the longer you stay cooped up due to your avoidance of the coronavirus, the more you long to go somewhere, anywhere. My BFG and I went to our favorite used
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I knew I’d be talking about this, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. When you have a bunch of animals, and we’ve 19 angora goats, 6 cats, 3 alpacas, 2 livestock guardian dogs, a pet dog, and 2 tortoises, injuries and illness happen. And, we have been struck again. SMART GOATS We
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Intimate A motorcycle is a much more intimate mode of transportation than a car or truck. You aren’t surrounded by glass and metal, protected by seatbelts and a crash zone. You can feel and smell, see and hear things you just can’t when you’re in a car, even if you have the windows down. There’s
Morning I woke up in the morning and ran out to the garage to make sure yesterday wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t! My gorgeous carbon black metallic R1250 RT was still there! I sometimes feel like a kid at Christmas, but why should they be the only ones to experience such joy? I ran into
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California issues I have lived in California most of my life, having grown up in and around Monterey, moving to the Sierra Foothills, Sacramento and surrounding areas, and finally outside of Marysville. I am familiar with earthquakes and wildfires, as is any long-term resident of this state, but I finally experienced my first evacuation due
Thrills Hopping on my new bike for the first time was a thrilling feeling. It sounded amazing and felt so smooth. Adam had kindly put the bike in rain mode to keep everything a little slower and, he thought, safer for me. I rode it out into the street and when the light turned green,
