Author name: ColdGecko

Six Riding Days:  Moscow — Vlaldimir (290km) / Vladimir – Nizhniy Novgorod (320 km) / Nizhniy Novgorod — Kazan (410 km) / Kizan — Izhevsk (390 km) / Izhevsk — Kungur (420 km). Feature Image:  Is of a lady holding a leech for her miniature reindeer at a small village festival held today.  These people […]

Riding Day:  Moscow — Vladimir (290 km) Feature Image:  A Russian made watch in its display.  I was debating on buying one of these astronaut inspired watches — they were not expensive — but it’s just another thing to go nowhere in my collection of crap so I settled for the picture.  Feroz, the Sri

Feature image is of one of the historic Moscow subway stations.  Notice the ceiling details with stars and other Russian symbol inset along with lights — Just beautiful feeling in station. This morning I met up with Karin, Stefan, Charles, the two crazy Swiss, Marten and Bruno along with Rolf to go on a tour

Riding Day:  Vyshny Volochek – Moscow (300km). Feature Image:  Phil in front of the St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square.  We did get a special tour the cathedral, nothing really special, but this image is the face of Moscow.  Red Square is equally unimpressive, not at all the same as China’s Tiananmen Square which is

Feature Image:  Old lady selling apples off the side of the road.  I gave her some change for an apple — she stares at the coins in her hands and tries later to give it back to me.  Her husband came running over to see the commotion and he becomes the star of the story

Feature image is of large group of riders, two guides, one girlfriend who going back to Germany today and a corporate manger going back to Germany tomorrow.  Complicated, but the seeds of the group that will be traveling for the next two and one half months, ending at the top of October, 2019. Without any

I know what you’re going to say, can’t you think of a better headline for the post, like really, hurry up and wait, how lame?  I have to say, in this case, it’s true, it’s now August 15th, and I’m hanging around waiting to get going on my next leg of travel with a new

Feature Image is shocking and I’m sorry for that, but it fits the days touring I did at Auschwitz and Birkenau camp near Krakow, Poland.  I’m going to load up this post with images that I took at the camps — does not relate to the text — but I want to get these exposed:

Anyone who knows me, knows that beer is really close to the last beverage that I would reach for if I were on a desert island, thirsty for some wet happiness.  Its not that I hate beer — and its not that I have anything agains beer — and its not that I judge anyone

Feature image of this Porsche Carrera 550 Spyder – race warn in the Mexican competition, Carrera Panamericana where it took first place in its category back in the 1950’s. Its been an action filled couple of days since checking out of my hotel Heidelberg, Germany.  I’ve been to the world headquarters for Porsche and then

Feature image is of a wall of retail bags with probably 50 or more individual types of Haribo gummies in cherished rows and rows of these delights. I’m here to try and answer the age old question; what is better, Haribo Gummy Candy or the German Autobahn?  Some of you may think, who cares?  Well,

Feature image is of the inside of a Eurotunnel rail car which carries people and cars in a bare bones 35 minute ride across the English Channel — from England to France.  George is resting comfortably during the rail ride. Ever since I landed in London with Paula, it’s been really down time to hang

Phil’s friend George. It’s been bothering me, and I just had to deal with it.  The need to give an inanimate object a human name to give it life — its that simple. I’ve been referring to my 2019 BMW Motorrad F850GS Adventure as my “bike” or as the “motorcycle”, most recent as the “Iron

It’s now time to move on to the second of three continents; Europe.  I now on a British Airways flight to London and it’s really a gnarly feeling that my plan is super loose until I get to Estonia, at the Russian border.  More about that later. I finished my first ride from the USA

Featured Image is of my backup iPhone’s back case — including custom logo for Iron Monkey Butt World Tour. I generally think about my sleeping comfort requirements as goldilocks — not too cold and not too hot — say 72 degrees is fine. Well this morning I woke up in my hotel room in Lexington,

Feature Image is of the first minute after leaving my garage at early dusk — It seemed like a Kodak moment, a picture of my bike, a bright yellow light and my home in the backdrop — to start this new adventure which will take me from Boca Raton to Toronto — Flight for me,