Tag: edmonton

  • Road trip 2024: Home again

    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

    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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  • Motorcycle Road Trip 2012 #1: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alberta, and back again

    Motorcycle Road Trip 2012 #1: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alberta, and back again

    My first “real” (i.e.: more than one day) motorcycle road trip of 2012 began on July 30.  Myself, my nephew Shane, and our good friends Jeff and Tim set out on a journey to buy Shane a T-Shirt.  Yes, that was the only actual specific, tangible objective of the trip.  Everything else that happened was…

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  • 2011 Motorcycle Road Trip #1: to Edmonton and back

    2011 Motorcycle Road Trip #1: to Edmonton and back

    2011 is the year I wanted to start taking my motorcycle on some longer, multi-day trips.  I had lots of questions to explore: would I figure out how to pack what I need?  Would the Road Glide be comfortable for the long haul?  And most important: would this kind of riding be the kind of…

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