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Two wheelin’ (the easy way)
I’m back: 9 days, 2,700 miles, and one sore butt later, it’s time to say a few words about my motorcycle trip. When you ride a motorcycle, everyone wants to know what you do when it rains. The answer is: you keep riding. Rain was a factor the first three days. I hit a bad […]
As you know, I’ve been working on my motorcycle (thanks, Ed!). All the fixing, adjusting, lubricating, and tweaking has been in preparation for a long solo ride through Arizona, Nevada, and California. Launch date is just a few days away, and my concerns have shifted from maintenance to packing. What to bring, and how much? […]
I thought replacing my handlebar-mounted electrical switch module would be easy. My friend Ed, who doubles as my spiritual and mechanical guru, told me there was more to the job than I thought, and boy was he right. You see, it’s not just the module on the handlebar. That part is easy, or relatively so. […]
What’s in Paul’s grab bag? Unconnected thoughts and short observations which don’t rate separate blog posts, but when aggregated together might amount to something: A Society of Snitches? One of the more worrisome things about Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, which takes effect two weeks from now, is the provision that “allows a person to bring an action […]
Today on Facebook I posted a link to this photo and accompanying story about a racist NASCAR fan, generating this heated comment from a friend, an understandably beleaguered non-racist NASCAR supporter: Probably the most misinformed bit of drivel written about NASCAR to date. Funny how the “journalist” leaps to unsubstantiated conclusions but would scream bloody […]
A few more photos from my motorcycle trip. Click any photo to enlarge: Top row, left to right: Riding lessons for my grandson Quentin, 4/24/10 Spring Mountain to Pahrump, en route to Death Valley, 4/25/10 Bottom row, left to right: Old borox mine, Death Valley, 4/25/10 California poppies in the Mojave Desert (w/bee), 4/26/10 My […]
Day three of my Las Vegas trip. Drove up Friday with the motorcycle loaded on my trailer. Rode to Laughlin Saturday to check out the annual River Run, checked out the classic car display at the Riverside Casino, walked through the vendor displays out front, participated in a loud pipe Harley traffic jam, then rode […]
I’ve been planning a motorcycle trip for two months, and tonight am on the eve of it. There have been some inevitable last-minute changes. Originally I was going to ride from Tucson to Flagstaff via back roads, spend the night in Flag, then ride on to Vegas. But it’s snowing in Flagstaff, so I’m trailering […]