Month: August 2022

25-aug-2022 Brown Santa is what I call the UPS driver. He swoops in, drops off presents, and leaves. The local brown Santa here is Craig, a great guy who usually delivers in this area around 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon. But today would be different, probably since I was waiting for a package…

24-Aug-2022 Today was a good day to get a lot of little things done. Ralph needed to stick around the house for a variety of reasons, so we spent a good part of the day in the garage just tinkering with stuff. I worked on getting a heated jacket receptacle installed in a more permanent…

23-aug-2022 Had a great ride today with Ralph and his friend Russ, the man who owns a stuffed giraffe in his living room window. ( Hey, I’m not one to kink shame, and I think giraffes are cool). We rode south to Miranda for lunch, which means we got to ride through the Avenue of…

22-aug-2022 I’ve been at Ralphs place now for almost 20 hours, so obviously it’s well past time to wash the bike. As expected Ralph didn’t sleep well last night knowing a dirty motorcycle was in his garage. He’s the type of guy who thinks OCD should be called CDO, so that the letters are in…

21-aug-2022 In the last 10 days I have ridden in Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario again, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island, Washington, Oregon and now California. I’ve got so many insects on the front of the bike that I probably need a livestock import license. Note: If you have heard reports…

20-aug-2022 I left Salem this morning and rode down the coastline to Gold Beach where I would meet up with my dear friend Ralph for the night and we would ride together the next day to his place. We’ve known each other since September 2001, and were riding together along the Pacific Coast Highway when…

19-Aug-2022 Woke up to a foggy morning today in Port Angeles, which is pretty normal this time of the year, and decided to hit the road and get a few miles in before breakfast, which I found about an hour down the road at The In Place in Forks, WA. I enjoyed a bacon waffle…

18-August-2022 What a day. Started out the morning by going to White Rock, BC to look at a set of almost new alloy wheels taken off of a 2020 R1250GS. They were pristine, and a heck of a deal. I’ve had two sets of wheels for a previous GSA and it was convenient to be…

17-August-2022 I woke up to a beautiful but cool morning in Golden, BC. Oh how I would come to miss that crisp cool air later in the day. Before heading out I dropped in at Mountain Mart in Golden to dry some laundry. I had washed some clothes the night before in my hotel tub,…

Knowing I wanted to spend some time on the west coast, I decided to push through the Plains. I was surprised to see that a popular crop in Manitoba was large sunflowers. I would ride next to fields of these for miles. There were also fields of rapeseed that would go on forever, blanketing the…