first ride the highlands solo loop of 2025
I didn’t go far and I didn’t go fast. I didn’t ride any of my favourite Ride the Highlands’ roads – Appleton, Tennyson, Tatlock, Centennial Lake, Crow Lake, Letterkenny,…
I didn’t go far and I didn’t go fast. I didn’t ride any of my favourite Ride the Highlands’ roads – Appleton, Tennyson, Tatlock, Centennial Lake, Crow Lake, Letterkenny,…
James looked uncharacteristically pale when I stopped beside him and behind my POS car that’s parked in front of my house. “I thought you were going to go to…
“Shoot! I think that was it.” I said into my helmet microphone as we rode past the entrance to Barry’s Bay Cottages on highway 60 about seven minutes outside…
James, Jacques and I left Almonte for the first annual Barry’s Bay Rally in the Valley at about 2 pm on Friday, June 20 (predictably, an hour behind our planned…
I’m normally the one behind schedule. But it was Adam who was late last Saturday, because, he said, James told him we were meeting at 10:30 am, not 10….
This is ‘kitsune,’ my recently acquired new-to-me motorcycle. Kitsune (kit or kitsu for short) is my third Yamaha V-Star 250. She follows in the tire tracks of the TheFox (purchased…
“You’re not coming out of the house to say hi?” It was Jacques on the phone. “No,” I replied. “I’m not in the house.” “Where are you?” “I’m walking on…
May 24, 2025: This afternoon, as I was searching for something else, I stumbled across this post from ten years ago today. Seems I was accident prone long before…
Last May, I couldn’t ride for two weeks while I recovered from a sprained ankle suffered on a morning walk. This year, I’m not riding for several months while…
The most beautiful days – the ones when the sun is shining, the sky is blue and the air is cool not cold – are the days I feel…