September 14, 2023
Last year’s write up: Link There seems to be a trend with our friend John, this year he made it to the starting line only to have his fuel pump fail a few hours later. Blerg. Whelp, guess it will just be me and Mike again this year. A revised plan to meet in Cowdry (Colorado) and then take pavement…
January 29, 2023
Angie suggested a food tour and it was quickly “yeses” all around. After a short cab ride, the only hiccup of the day came – a passing rain shower. As visions of running from place to place wet and freezing danced through our minds we thankfully were able to push that aside and enjoy a dry tour around Old San…
January 27, 2023
Our circumnavigation around St. Kitts was not exclusively by train, a shuttle carried us to the north side of the island. But I’m getting ahead of myself, with our last day we were debating how we should fill it. Lisa and Andy were keen on a beach day so that left the rest of us to figure it out. When…
January 26, 2023
It is fairly well establish that if you travel with us at some point you are going to be pushing into extreme exercise. On this trip it was a climb up Gros Pitot on St. Lucia. Booking a guide I had not realized that it would require four hours (round trip) in a van, which made it tight on time…
January 25, 2023
I heard some rustling at 4:00am and realized Jean wasn’t in bed. Huh. Well with my birthday that day I had some idea what was going on… Getting out of bed in the morning, I found our room was filled with streamers, balloons and other paraphernalia. And it brought a big smile to start my day! Shortly there was a…
January 24, 2023
Early 2022 I tossed out the idea of a trip with friends for my 50th birthday. Much to my surprise everyone I asked was on board, even our friends Lisa and Andy who live is Sweden, woohoo! Tickets purchased it was time to wait, finally January rolled around and just the day before we were set to leave a group…
November 30, 2022
Closing out my west coast adventure I headed to Ramona, California for the first in person development meeting with my team since before Covid. Long overdue to see the guys. My plan had been to visit my friends who bought SV Strikhedonia for a few days and some formation flying in Oxnard before mother nature decided other plans for us.…
October 23, 2022
Huh, maybe not the safest idea but I was bound and determined to squeeze in a hike in the middle of a snow storm. What is the worst that could happen? I packed up some safety gear, food, water, and off I went with Moki up Buff pass. On the trail it looked like a few people had been out…
October 10, 2022
I squeezed in some nice hiking, mountain biking, and flying to take in the beautiful fall colors. The snow isn’t far off…
October 1, 2022
My daughter, who doesn’t have much free time due to grad school and training for the biathlon, and I still managed to squeeze in a 21 hour, 14 mile trip to the Lee Metcalf wilderness just outside of Bozeman. She found a trail she hadn’t hiked that just happened to be right where it looked to be raining. But by…
September 17, 2022
Our planned route of the WY BDR was Sections 1 to 6 (backwards from north to south). We skipped Sections 7 and 8 because we have spent a lot of time riding in the Big Horn mountains (they are fantastic) and instead would tack on part of the CO BDR. For this tour I rode my KTM 790 Adventure R…
September 16, 2022
Time for Mike to head home to Rapid City, blerg. It rained hard early in the morning and there was talk of skipping the ride over Buffalo pass in favor of taking the highway. But after breakfast it seemed manageable so we geared up and hit the trail. The conditions were better than expected and soon we were over the…