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Who, What & Why

Best Marketed Signs On The Back Roads of America
October 5, 2008 01:19 PM

Crossing Kansas - Birds, Wheat, Sunflowers & A Toilet Seat.
October 4, 2008 03:11 PM

It's The People Along the Way - Graceland to Kansas.
September 30, 2008 10:17 AM

Nashville: Chrome Cow Girl Meets WorldRider.
September 29, 2008 05:45 PM

Back Roads of Tennessee - Riding My Way Through America
September 26, 2008 08:33 PM

I Think That I Shall Never See A Poem Lovely As A Tree.
September 25, 2008 06:32 PM

Seized & Shafted In Robbinsville
September 24, 2008 11:55 AM

Slight Detour To Conover - Home of Held USA
September 22, 2008 12:58 PM

Blue Ridge Parkway to Asheville
September 21, 2008 01:13 PM

Making My Way Back To California
September 13, 2008 10:54 PM

USA

	The Countdown Begins The countdown begins. Not that the last two years of....[More]		June 30,2005
	Not Ready. I don't think I'm ready. Though I've been working on....[More]		July 01,2005
	Ready Or Not? Am I ready? My mind races through the long daunting....[More]		July 01,2005
	Where Are They? All my possessions are scattered everywhere in Angie's bedroom. Water....[More]		July 04,2005
	Closing Up Life. Attending to final business of closing up life. And then....[More]		July 05,2005
	Gone. I carry the panniers to the bike. Then the dry....[More]		July 06,2005
	Late Arrival. Another Day. I decide that with such a late arrival last night....[More]		July 07,2005
	Hanging In Humboldt Today I go with Johnny A and his girlfriend Kendra....[More]		July 09,2005
	Long Goodbyes. Long goodbyes. You know the kind. There's always something to....[More]		July 19,2005
	A Little Reduction. I'm up much earlier today than yesterday, but I'm going....[More]		July 20,2005
	Fishing For Crater Lake When one think of travel perhaps the feeling of letting....[More]		July 21,2005
	Where The Pavement Ends "You must be the bravest man in Oregon," he said....[More]		July 22,2005
	The Kindness of Strangers. Sometimes a GPS navigation just isn't a good thing. Determined....[More]		July 23,2005
	A WorldRider Retrospective: Looking Back At Last Year. Today as I gathered my things, packed my bike and....[More]		July 24,2005
	I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet Since climbing the most active in Indonesia's "Ring of Fire"....[More]		July 25,2005
	The Not So Secret Handshake The Not So Secret Handshake There are no dues, no....[More]		July 26,2005
	Mt. Ranier Camping I'm enjoying these Cascade Mountains and volcanoes. After doing a....[More]		July 26,2005
	Paradise To Sunrise on Mt. Rainier After the embarrassing and taxing bike drop this morning....[More]		July 27,2005
	Wine In Washington It's been nearly five years since I visited the Seattle....[More]		July 28,2005
	Time For New Shoes Waking up to the hussle and bustle of busy business....[More]		July 29,2005
	Computer In For Repair I've got a bit of an issue with my new....[More]		July 30,2005
	Hostile Territory? In planning the domestic leg of my WorldRider journey I....[More]		July 30,2005
	Seattle Home & Mark Knopfler It's inevitable that wherever I park or sit still with....[More]		July 31,2005
	Forget Riding, Walking Is Dangerous! I was extremely lucky to have the opportunity to have....[More]		August 01,2005
	A Dog's Life My last night in the Seattle area. Whether my computer....[More]		August 03,2005
	Pushing It (gas) To Delta "Gas?" the young lad yelled as he rode his John....[More]		August 14,2005
	The Trail Ends & Stormy Nights In Fairbanks I was so close. I could nearly taste the Yukon....[More]		August 14,2005
	When Is A Circle Not The Circle? With clean laundry, a hurting foot and a thank you....[More]		August 16,2005
	So What If I Did Make A 300 Mile Wrong Turn? Riding into the sunset sounds alluring, romantic and paints a....[More]		August 17,2005
	Which Way Would You Go? Seriously. If you were heading in the direction of....[More]		August 17,2005
	Legendary Lodge In Alaska For Sale - The Wife, Too! The construction crew got up much earlier than me. Careful....[More]		August 18,2005
	To The Arctic Ocean - Day #1 If you've been following my ride for the last....[More]		August 18,2005
	To The Arctic Ocean - Day #2 "Can't buy it or sell it; and if we catch....[More]		August 19,2005
	Leaving The Arctic Ocean - The Deadly Dalton Redux Bad things could have happened today. But thankfully the....[More]		August 19,2005
	To The Denali Highway Before leaving George's last night I had the pleasure....[More]		August 20,2005
	Bear In Mind Denali National Park Denali National Park What distinguishes Denali National Park from any....[More]		August 21,2005
	Over 8,000 miles for the 6,000 Service The Motorcycle Shop, Anchorage Alaska The good news about the....[More]		August 21,2005
	Stunning Scenery - Bad Bike - Yukon to USA Today was my longest day riding since I've been....[More]		August 22,2005
	The Alaskan Marine Highway Ferry - Rest At Last! Aboard my ferry ship and sipping a cold Alaskan Amber....[More]		August 23,2005
	History In Sitka - Russians & Americans With a two-hour layover in Sitka, I decided to....[More]		August 23,2005
	Glaciar National Park - Peace. Was today a late start or a lazy start?....[More]		August 25,2005
	Missoula in the Rain - And The Bike Fixed! Riding through to Missoula in the cold rain morning and....[More]		August 25,2005
	The Case of The Lost Wallet - Again I didn't get too far out of Missoula when the....[More]		August 26,2005
	Salmon Again. On The Trail of Lewis & Clark The Lewis and Clark expedition traveled more than 8,000 miles....[More]		August 26,2005
	Sun Valley to Monument Valley Stopping in Sun Valley for a quick sandwich and....[More]		August 26,2005
	Spending Too Much Time Making Money? Riding into nightfall I roll into Flagstaff tired and....[More]		August 27,2005
	Nothing Like A Jesse - Hot Town Phoenix I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's....[More]		August 29,2005
	Phoenix to San Diego - Bike Service, Carnet & Regroup The ride from Phoenix to San Diego is uneventful. With....[More]		August 30,2005
	San Diego Chill Definately going to stay through the holiday weekend here in....[More]		September 02,2005
	12K Service - Brattin Motors, San Diego A somber day as we remember September 11th 4....[More]		September 11,2005
	The Case Of The Missing Wallet: Solved Over coffee and toast the other morning I went through....[More]		September 18,2005
	South of the Border - Finally! This is incredible. I'm finally on the road today.....[More]		September 23,2005
	From Admitting To Surgery In Four Easy Screws. Glorious ocean view private room and the sunset taken....[More]		January 19,2006
	Two Weeks. Had my first doctor's appointment today; a week and....[More]		January 30,2006
	Where's Doc? I'm getting tired of sleeping, pain killers and doing....[More]		February 10,2006
	Hospital Daze & Nights. I tried to get as much sleep as possible....[More]		February 12,2006
	Goodbye Staples. Hello Weight. It's been 29 days since my accident in Tica....[More]		February 13,2006
	WorldRider - Travels From The Sickbed. It took a broken leg and a medivac return to....[More]		February 17,2006
	WorldRider and World Rider updates. My apologies for not getting an update posted since....[More]		March 21,2006
	WorldRider: Memorable Places & Faces. Speed. And The Ugly American Myth. Join Allan Karl with his guests Teri & Chuck....[More]		March 31,2006
	Other Motorcyclists Riding The World - Update As you can imagine, it's hard for me to....[More]		April 01,2006
	Lessons of Insurance. Insurance can be a rather dull topic to discuss.....[More]		April 08,2006
	When Your Knees Grow Weak. Three months ago today I arrived back in California....[More]		April 18,2006
	Details. Details. Just finished my ninth physical therapy session this morning.....[More]		May 03,2006
	Happy Anniversary. (aka time flies) Today marks the 4th month since I landed back....[More]		May 18,2006
	Another Surgery In My Future? Met with Dr. Chang again this morning. We took....[More]		May 26,2006
	The Continuing Saga of bones, ligaments and knees The Muddy Mess Starts. Cruising into Tica Tica Bolivia,....[More]		June 14,2006
	WorldRider In The News I've been a bit remiss in keeping the WorldRider....[More]		August 01,2006
	Return To Forever I've been exercising by climbing these 137 steps straight....[More]		August 31,2006
	You Can Always Go Back. There's so much to write about. So little time.....[More]		October 14,2006
	Welcome Back to USA: Disaster & Ripped Off. Well it should have been an easy task. Get my....[More]		August 08,2008
	Back In The U.S.A. The Marine Memorial - aka Iwa Jima in Virginia....[More]		August 13,2008
	Putting The Pieces Back Together I've been set back quite a bit by the breach....[More]		September 06,2008
	Washington, DC - My Homecoming Sure. The current government administration hasn't fared nor treated us....[More]		September 11,2008
	Making My Way Back To California As I feverishly work to get current on this blog,....[More]		September 13,2008
	Blue Ridge Parkway to Asheville From New York City I finally made progress toward the....[More]		September 21,2008
	Slight Detour To Conover - Home of Held USA At less than one hundred miles off my route, I....[More]		September 22,2008
	Seized & Shafted In Robbinsville After another night of camping on the Blue Ridge Parkway,....[More]		September 24,2008
	I Think That I Shall Never See A Poem Lovely As A Tree. It took John and I the better part of the....[More]		September 25,2008
	Back Roads of Tennessee - Riding My Way Through America Slightly parched, tired and disappointed that I was stuck in....[More]		September 26,2008
	Nashville: Chrome Cow Girl Meets WorldRider. Strolling the side streets of the Music Row district of....[More]		September 29,2008
	It's The People Along the Way - Graceland to Kansas. As the end this part of my journey looms with....[More]		September 30,2008
	Crossing Kansas - Birds, Wheat, Sunflowers & A Toilet Seat. Perhaps ever since Judy Garland, in her most memorable role,....[More]		October 04,2008
	Best Marketed Signs On The Back Roads of America I'm fascinated, if not obsessed with the stuff that litters....[More]		October 05,2008

Where WorldRider Is Now

Where WorldRider Is Now

WorldRider Tracker

Miles Traveled:	62,329
Days Traveled:	847
Fuel Consumed:	1,116.2 gal.
Photos Shot:	32,077
Borders Crossed:	54
Currently In:	Carlsbad, CA USA
As of 11/12/08.

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