Thrills and Turns: Riding in Germany
There are many things I love about riding in Germany. Its beautiful countryside, which is always clean with no litter and, once out of the cities, no graffiti. The small towns and villages looking like picture perfect postcards with their neatly manicured farmlands and forests that alternate between the towns.
Motorcycles I Have Loved in My Life
If you’ve read my books Hangmen and Against the Wind, you are already familiar with some of the motorcycles I have known and loved them, but I would like to give you a more complete list.
Gearing Up for Another Year of Riding
I’m probably jumping the gun, but I’m already polishing chrome, oiling the chain, pulling out the camping gear and riding gear, checking tire pressures, and changing the oil.
What Was It Like to Learn to Fly in Alaska?
The Lucky One is now out and it talks about my being a flight instructor and learning to fly, so I got to thinking about when I was a student pilot in Anchorage, Alaska in 1978.
Into the New Year with More Cockpits and Flight Decks
The Boeing 727 tri-jet was the object of our desires, our new girlfriend, we needed to know her, and love her. Well, not really, but if we wanted to be hired permanently, we had to learn it inside and out, literally. It was a test, a weeding out process. It was often compared to boot camp, only mental instead of physical.
From Cockpits to Flightdecks
To be a pilot it is required to know what every control, gauge, switch and circuit breaker does. That is part of the fun of learning to fly. As the airplanes get bigger and faster, there are more engines, more systems and more controls and gauges.
Never A Dull Moment
For me there is something special about riding into a new town and searching out a place to eat and a room for the night. I’m not sure why, it just seems to have its own little sense of adventure.
Rider on the Storm
Riding through the small towns, as always, I wondered what it would be like to live there. I didn’t stop for lunch preferring to make a reasonable number of miles for the day, even though I am not one of these ‘Iron Butt’ guys trying to ride a thousand miles a day. If I’m not enjoying the ride, then why am I doing it?
Small Town Magic
We’re back on the road again just where we left off last time, Remember the tiny motel in Hat Rock from my previous post? The next morning, after a good night’s rest, it was time to get back in the saddle.
June Adventures on the Road
The feeling of heading off alone on a motorcycle is the best feeling of freedom I have ever found. I prefer to ride alone, going where I want, at the speed I want, stopping when I want, eating and sleeping where I want.
Fourth Book Coming This Year
My fourth book will be released later this year and will continue where “Better Lucky Than Good” left off. Enjoy an excerpt from one of the chapters.
Believing In Yourself
If you can conceive of something, have a dream, in other words, and believe you can do it, you can achieve it. I know this, because I did.
Books That Can Change Your Life
Someone told me a long time ago “Ten years from now, you will be the same person you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
Motorcycles I Have Loved
There is something about motorcycles that us riders come to feel that they have a life of their own. They don’t of course, they are just steel and aluminum and rubber. It is just the place they hold in our hearts that gives them a soul.
Packing For A Long Motorcycle Trip
Having left on my first solo long-distance ride on my 1951 Panhead when I was eighteen years old, I had no one to advise me what to take, so I just winged it. And for better or worse, that’s the way I still do it.