The day started as you’d expect of an mid autumn northwest day. The air was heavy, and a light mist was falling as I headed out I-90 towards Snoqualmie Pass. Fog hovered just above

    My friend and former teammate Hillary had asked me the weekend before at Derby Days if I wanted to go hiking at some point in the next week as it was her “rest

I started writing this some days later after I returned.  All will be explained later in, but some unexpected events to come back to forced me to delay much of my plans, and is what

There is this weird thing that happens when you travel by motorcycle, something that I can’t really explain, but it is beautiful. No matter where I go or what time of the year, there is

Probably one of the most noticeable and recognizable adventure bikes when out and about that you come across is the R1200GS. An already popular bike among the worlds travelers, but made more popular by the

You ever think back on a moment from a trip somewhere, and remember it in all its detail, then come back some years later, and it seems so out of place? My trip was a

You can only plan for so much, and when it comes to the weather, you are at the mercy of whatever nature throws at you. It doesn’t matter what a forecast predicts, you just deal

When I started packing for this trip, I came across several items that I had previously used from my first trip north in 2010 that would not make the cut this time around. There were

I’ve been slowly working on the blog to update it. Some category changes, working on some things in the background, and eventually will role out a new layout.   But until then, this will have to