Today was the day which would conclude my coast-to-coast journey that started on the eastern Atlantic and then ended up on the western Pacific. Said another way, I left Boca Raton, Florida and arrived San Diego, California today — 11 days later. Now that’s not the end of my trip of course, I still need to […]
Cover image is from the front door of my hotel room. Pretty sweet. Today was a down day here in Phoenix. What did I do? Of course went to a couple of BMW Motorrad dealers and hung out then back to hotel to catch up on some emails which needed attention. Thats all.
So traveling by motorcycle is pretty liberating — sure we all know that. It also has some drawbacks, although few. Where am I going with this? Well, the past few days have been pretty cold. The afternoons in the past few days are in the low 60’s, mornings in high-30’s to mid-40’s. Sad to say
I can’t say that Bruce Springsteen had visited this place when he wrote the song “Cadillac Ranch”, but lets go with it. The second thing that Amarillo, Texas is known for is The Cadillac Ranch. In 1974, just outside of town in a farm field, a wealthy business guy and his buddy had opened a
I love the home page picture of the menu for this night’s dinner spot — Mountain Oysters. Yum, Cows nuts. If you don’t know what it is… Order the Shrimp! Hahaha. That set the scene for my dinner event. I guess that 339 miles sounds like not too big a trip. When I drive
I really have to say that today was a great day. One of those rare days where everything really comes together and you feel great. I will jump right into it — why not? Get to the best of the day’s event. So I had read that Fort Worth houses the Bureau of Engraving and
It has always been a desire of mine to visit Austin, Texas. I guess to me, it seems like one of those towns that has its own rules and does not follow the conventional, fit-in-the-box city which I see all the time in my travels. Austin has broken out to dare and be different.
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Let me jump to the Tabasco Tour. I rode 30 minutes from Lafayette, Louisiana to Avery Island, home of Tabasco. Yes, I did the self guided tour which is real interesting. So interesting huh? What’s so interesting about the Tabasco Factory tour? I’ll tell you by asking you a question: What does Tabasco and Jack
Ok, ok, so I’ve bored you with all that riding bull-crap. Now for the real fun. My plan. My goal. My vision is to find the best Beef Jerky in the United States, as that I carve out my path. Listen to me, all beef jerky are not created equal! I have lived my life
Today I woke up early for my very long ride from Orlando to Pensacola, Florida. I had to make this trip because on Tuesday morning, I have an appointment with Pensacola BMW to change my oil on my bike — 600 mile change. This means that I had to do the 470 mile day. Trust
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So it has become a reality — I left at 8am on Sunday morning, not exactly sure of what to expect. Sure I had watched a ton of videos on YouTube. I had bought what was needed to make it happen. I roughly logged my trip out. Ok, ready, lets go — enough of the
So tomorrow is the day I start my motorcycle journey. I’m pretty amped about that. Heffrey Jabert asked me why don’t I take a car across America instead? Sager asked, why not Greyhound bus? Pollard, well, he is just having a good laugh about me falling. All the boys are having fun at my expense
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Was a great and memorable experience. On to the next…. Where will that be?
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So I was thinking about some of the highlights of the past month travel. Of course, we traveled from Rio, all around Argentina — from far north to the furthest southern town in the world. Still blows my mind. Yes, we visited Chile, trekked, climbed some areas where I was scared shitless — overlooking cliffs.
Here are just a few Pictures of Penguins from the trip… An interesting bit of information which you may not be aware is that the Antarctica is basically void of wildlife. It’s not like the Arctic at all. Its just really snow, ice and water. In terms of wildlife, it consists of penguins, seals, walrus
After departing the continental Antarctic and returning to Ushuaia in Patagonia, it took us about two hours to set the pattern for the next two days – horrible seas. Last night, the boat was bobbing like a cork on open Ocean and I have to admit, I was scared. I was on the verge of
Today was our last landing day on an island in the Antarctica. The afternoon was to begin our journey home over the open Southern Ocean and the dreaded Drake Passage back to Ushuaia in Patagonia. Our good ship dropped anchor a bit out and we took the zodiac to a real neat island, which had
It was just an eye-dropping day – no less. A day that I will never forget. We navigated to a passage, which was just indescribable, but ill try. A large bay with probably 10 table icebergs, each are about the size of a football field and range in height from 20 feet to some size
We arrived at the South Shetland Peninsula, more specifically, Half Moon Island. I did wake up to see from our balcony to see this snow covered sheet of ice on the protected inlet — or should i say thousands of floating pieces of ice. Best of all, I could see one of these ice rafts
Of course yesterday was the ultimate in shock and excitement, all mixed together. The ship cut through the ice like a blade through butter – however while that may be a decent analogy, it’s not 100% accurate. Every so often, the ship hit a thicker piece of berg that totally shook the boat and moved
So we finally took off from Ushuaia on the Explorer. We start off though a passage call Beagle Inlet and then into the Atlantic for about 8 hours. As you know, I booked on Lindblad/National Geographic Expeditions. A few choices, and some have bigger luxe vessels — basically these are small cruise ships. NatGeo is
Ushuaia is the Southernmost City in the World. Love that. Lots of working around to get here. Anyway, we flew into Ushuaia just to overnight for tomorrows adventure to the Antarctica. Ushuaia airport on left. Not much else to say. It’s a town of about 70,000. Mostly tourism. Tacky in a Niagara Falls sort-of way.
Thought I would choose a little abandoned storefront along our drive on gravel roads from El Calafate, Argentina to Torres de Paines, Chile — Both in Patagonian region. If anyone wants to count the stickers, I would like to hear your number. My guess is lots. Even saw a large sticker from Edelweiss Adventure Motorcycle
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This image was a few days back from our flight from Bariloche, Argentina to El Calafate. I like it because it just feels right. From the sky is what basically I see from the ground. Maybe not the best quality since we were 30,000 feet up there, but you can get an idea of the
So today we went to the Los Glaciares National Park in El Calafate. We arrived by air to El Calafate yesterday not really knowing what adventure was in store for us today. Everyone kept telling us that El Calafate is amazing. Ok, it’s amazing. But we did hear it repeatedly throughout our trip when I spooled our