Category: Road trips
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Road trip 2024: Home again
I described the ‘outward bound’ part of this year’s road trip in an earlier post. After spending four great days visiting family and friends in the Edmonton area I began my return journey. My route used highways I haven’t followed before that took me through Rocky Mountain House, Nordegg, and Radium Hot Springs. Along the…
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Road trip 2024: to Edmonton
I seem to have unintentionally established a tradition of completing one ‘large’ motorcycle road trip each year. COVID put a stop to that for several years, and various other factors mostly relating to the deterioration of my ancient body have kept the trips fairly compact since then. But I decided to ‘stretch my wings’ a…
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Road trip 2016: to the Black Hills with my Brother
This is a bit of a strange situation: I’m writing about a motorcycle road trip eight years after it happened when normally I assemble such a post within a few weeks of getting home. I don’t recall why I never documented the trip at the time and can only say I regret not writing this…
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Road trip 2023: A Motorcycle Journey through Illness
Riding my motorcycle is generally a good form of mental therapy. I find that it requires a level of attention that induces a degree of mindfulness, inducing the closest to a Zen like state that my over-active mind can achieve. So I jumped at the chance when the opportunity came in 2023 for me to…
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A Bus, a bike, and a Bird…
I left my motorcycle behind when we moved from Langley to Castlegar. Our move was in March: that’s an impossible time to ride a bike through mountain passes. And after much thought I decided I preferred the idea of riding it to its new home versus trailering or shipping it. So into storage she went.…
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Road trip 2019: Motorcycle pilgrimage to the Harley Davidson Museum
Getting out on my bike has become less of a common thing the last couple of years. The reasons are not terribly interesting: disruptions in health, work pressures, depression. But I still build up a need for two wheel therapy, probably even more so than when I was riding every weekend. And so I’ve focused…
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2018’s motorcycle road trip- Saskatchewan and back
In the ‘better later than never’ category, I present- the motorcycle road trip I took for 2018:
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Motorcycle road trip 2017: Selkirk International Loop
My brother Colin and I have started to make going on a motorcycle road trip to gather into an annual ‘tradition’. This year, our trip was close to home: the Selkirk International Loop.
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2013 motorcycle road trip #2: The Three Brothers
I was going through some draft posts on my blog and came across an outline for an account of a motorcycle road trip from back in 2013. It was originally written shortly after the event and, although it is in bullet form and rather sparse on detail, it does account for some events I had…
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2015 Motorcycle road trip: An Unexpected Journey
Life is full of surprises: some good, some not so good. I don’t deal well with surprises, but to counter that I’ve adopted a ‘seize control’ mentality that sometimes kicks in and gets me past the unexpected. My motorcycle road trip for 2015 is essentially a case history of that adaptation of mine, and I’m not…
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