Had my first doctor’s appointment today; a week and a half after surgery. He carefully unraveled the gauze around the splint his team put on me in the operating room while revealing some nasty blood stains that caused me to turn away from the view of my own appendage. I don’t like blood. I don’t […]
Glorious ocean view private room and the sunset taken from my hospital bed. Hoag Hospital sits on the bluffs in Newport Beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In the north end of this Southern California playground that has captured the country’s attention through the silly TV program “The O.C.”, the hospital is the tallest structure around. […]
This is incredible. I’m finally on the road today. After a couple weeks in San Diego and with the bike serviced, better packed and feeling good, I set out on the road. Leaving San Diego after spending time here getting my motorcycle its 12,000 mile service, new tires and further adjustments to the shock and […]
Over coffee and toast the other morning I went through my daily web update and email ritual when I found an email sent to my address for communication trough my other website – the long time blog “The Digital Tavern”. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. A gentleman doing some training in the Montana […]
A somber day as we remember September 11th 4 short years ago. It was the following day that I made my decision to leave the company I founded. But that’s a whole other story. If you’re interested you can read my letter I wrote shortly after here. I picked up the bike from Brattin Motors […]
Definately going to stay through the holiday weekend here in San Diego. Bring the bike to Brattin on Tuesday. I’ve been in contact with another guy who’s in the midst of his own motoryccle ride down from Alaska to Argentina. Seems he’ll be in the LA area sometime next week. So I’m going to continue […]
The ride from Phoenix to San Diego is uneventful. With no interest in exploring or taking any time to ride in the lands near my former home, I just rolled the throttle and made my way toward the border. Arriving in San Diego I got down to business. This planned minor downtime stop would allow […]
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about Flagstaff appeals to me. Perhaps its proximity to those magnificent lands I traveled through to get here. Or maybe the fact that like an oasis in a land of dry, colorful desert, Flagstaff sits at 7,000 feet with forested mountains, cooler climate and […]
Riding into nightfall I roll into Flagstaff tired and hungry. The pace of the journey has picked up because I need to get to Phoenix and then San Diego for bike maintenance and to make a few adjustments to my packing and change out supplies for the read adventure to come: Mexico, Central and South […]
Stopping in Sun Valley for a quick sandwich and rushing back to the road, I planned for a long day. With nothing much holding my interest between here and Southern Utah I blasted down 93 until I hit Internstate 84 and then finally picking up Interstate 15 north of Salt Lake City. For the first […]
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