motorcycle travelogue Archives

What’s The Worse That Could Happen?

Three bikes, two couples, one wild ride on the Sunshine Coast. Explore the Sunshine Coast! It was time for our annual couples’ motorcycle adventure trip, and my turn to plan something slightly...

Gaining Skills, Moving On

Hard things made easy – like learning off-road riding in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda. I didn’t always do hard things. As someone with anxiety, my excessive worry about what my performance says about...

OH!-hio

New Discoveries in the Buckeye State. It had been years since I’d spent any time in Ohio, so returning home from a trip through the South seemed like the...

The Ozarks Best Kept Secrets

Carving the hill country of Arkansas and Missouri. They had ridden their sport-touring machines from all over the southwest to gather in Hot Springs, AR. It was a semi-annual tradition among friends,...

Rewriting Preconceptions

Spending time in Colombia changed the views of the country for this writer. Somehow “Colombia” almost had a negative connotation for me. Cocaine and cartel-related crime instantly sprung to mind,...

Weekend Getaway

Making the most of a two-day ride. Two days — that’s usually all we get. I’d wager most people reading this work full-time and only get two days off a week to do with as they please. This might...

Land of the Delta Blues

Discovering the birthplace of America’s music. To be fair, my ignorance of the blues was at least partially systemic. Despite emancipation and federally legislated integration for African...

Summer Romance

Riding the breadth of Canada’s westernmost province. I had a summer affair! With a Honda SCL500 Scrambler. My excuse I needed to get to the Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting in Nakusp and my...

From Darkness to Light

A 9,700 km coast-to-coast journey with The Rolling Barrage to dispel the stigma of PTSD. Scott Casey, the founder of The Rolling Barrage, served in the Canadian Army. In the early 1990s, he and...

Freedom Road

Riding through history in the Deep South. The open road. For many, it is the very definition of freedom. Obligations are left behind as we imagine the adventure and spontaneity waiting around the...

Nothing But Corners

Exploring the Southern Appalachians. Aw $@#! The bike’s first scratch. Thinking that glamping might be fun, my buddy Gary and I were following a narrow road that wound through steep forests deep...

Go Your Own Way

Beach’s Motorcycle Adventures allows a rider to pick a route and ride at their leisure, either solo or in a group, to the day’s destination. “Today’s ride will be on a road race course,...