Adventures of a Triumph Tiger
We spent most of the day in Iowa, a little in Missouri, and we are in Jacksonville Illinois tonight. As we head east, the sky seams to be shrinking and we’re losing daylight riding against the sun. The day started pretty but the afternoon was very wet, cold, and lasted too long. On the up …
Continue reading “Day 8 – Losing daylight and Shrinking Skies”
We awoke to clear skies today. Yeah! Spent a few hours in the Badlands before breaking camp and starting east. The Badlands are still one of my and Don’s favorite places. It is just so unworldly and unique. I didn’t charge my helmet cam since I wasn’t going to take many photos and I missed …
Continue reading “Day 7 – Into the Great Wide Open, Under Skies of Blue”
We are in Badlands National Park for the night. Didn’t get much sleep last night as the thunder and lightning made sleeping on the ground in a cloth bag somewhat unsettling. Heavy rains washed out the camp driveway making our departure from Horsethief a bit sketchy, especially for Don and the Battlestar Galactica as he …
Had a great day of riding and the helmet cam worked well. It is mounted on the chin bar of my helmet with a remote located within reach of my thumb. I did manage to get some good shots of those pigtail bridges on Iron Mountain Road that eluded me last time. The day started …
Continue reading “Day 5 – From Where I Sit… the View is Amazing!”
Well, I’m still posting (which means something entirely different in the horse world). It was a gorgeous day and you just can’t go wrong with the Black Hills. Not nearly as crowded as the last time Don and I were here when the COVID restrictions were first lifted. I don’t know if my pictures are …
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Well, we made it into Rocky Mountain National Park this morning. It was still overcast and drizzling at the hotel, but radar looked like the sky was clearing to the west. So we bundled up and left Loveland. The ride between Loveland and Estes Park is quite beautiful with the road built along a mountain …
We’re not in Kansas anymore….yeah! Actually, Kansas gets a bit of a bum rap. It’s really kind of pretty in a lot of areas, especially the east. The biggest problem, other than straight roads of course, is that it just last too long. The western portion flattens out and gets to be monotonous. It has …
Don and I are on the road again. I finally had all I could take of my government job, so I took an early retirement and ran! My federal job put a damper on my work-life balance for quite a while and made longer trips impossible to plan. But no more. Yeah, this is a …
Welcome to 2022. Don and I are on the road again for our annual spring run to the mountains. Our beloved Haywood County North Carolina needs more time to recover from last year’s devastating flood so we are in Virginia this trip at the Willville Motorcycle Camp in Meadows of Dan. We have my nephew …
Well, no big trip this year. With Covid, hurricanes, wildfires, and a major house remodel turning into a bit of a nightmare, Don and I have put the Colorado trip on hold. Plan B was to spend a week venturing from southeastern Ohio to Virginia to North Carolina. The flooding in Haywood county NC the …
I hope this post finds everyone healthy and safe. What a crazy 14 months it has been. Don and I are alive and well and early into another riding season. Not much has changed in our lives since last year. We are fortunate that the pandemic has largely just been an incovenience for us and …
Home again safe and sound. Today was a great travel day with cooler temps and light traffic (other than the craziness that is St Louis). Covered 600 plus miles, 3200 for the week. And it was a spectacular trip. Scenery was fantastic! We met some incredible people too! A surprising number of them had ties …
Our last night in the Badlands turned out to be very hazy. I was hoping to have a star trail picture, but between the haze and the occasional passing headlights, it just wasn’t to be. I did get a couple of stills though. We packed up camp early and we’re rolling just after sunup. It …
I hate to sound like a broken record, but it’s been another stellar day. I still don’t know how to describe the Badlands….. bizarre, rugged, beautiful, unique, ever-changing, fill dirt with a lot of gravel….. they all apply. It’s a landscape that seems surreal. If you ever visit here, you must spend a full day …
Its been another great day, other than the smoke haze. Packed up camp this morning and ran over to the Crazy Horse monument. This thing is huge! Crazy Horse was a Sioux war chief that was very successful against the U.S. calvery. In fact his battle tactics were (and maybe still are) taught at West …
It’s been another great day and much more laid back. Probably covered less than 100 miles today, largely in Custer State Park. We got another early start and really appreciated heated gear and handgrips this morning. The smoke haze was noticably worse today and photography was limited, but traffic was lighter and the ride was …
The day started as the last couple, cool morning that ended in the 90’s. Don’s Strom showed 49 degrees when we rolled out of camp. Ran north past Pactola Lake and to the town of Leads. There’s a giant open gold mine in town. Operation was abandoned several years ago but the surprising thing is …
Continue reading “Day 4 – Close Encounters of the Wyoming Kind”
It was a stellar day! It was another brisk morning but we didn’t have far to go to reach the Scotts Bluff National Monument. We were both shocked at how stunning it was. Hard to believe we were still in Nebraska! We ended up spending the entire morning there. I did get some video footage …
Continue reading “Day 3 – Scotts Bluff (yes, this is still Nebraska)”
Welcome to Nebraska where the cows outnumber people with 23 million acres of rangeland and pastureland! Started out this morning at 51 degrees but ended the day around 90. Ran up I-24 for 50 some miles to Iowa. Overtook one tractor trailer and caught up to a second one just before our exit. We didn’t …
We are on the road again, this time heading west. Going west always seems better than east to me. Riding with the sun, you gain daylight every day. There’s something satisfying about traveling in the same direction for multiple days. For most of us, rarely are we more than a day’s travel from home. And …
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