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California road trip Spring 2022 Travel

Tracks for three of our California rides

Here is a description with a corresponding map for three rides we did during the trip. If you would like the GPX tracks for these rides, just add a comment. Benton Crossing An easy, great ride heading north out of Bishop on first Fish Slough road and then through Chidago Canyon which is a must […]

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California road trip Spring 2022 Travel

Eastern Sierras, Owens Valley, drives, rides, hikes and views. WoW.

We spent a fair bit of time in the Owens Valley, tucked in between the Sierra mountains in the west, and the White and Inyo mountains to the east, it’s a beautiful place with all sorts of recreation, easy to accessible rides, a ton of history, flora, and oh, the views. The California Trail Users’ […]

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California road trip Spring 2022 Travel

Springing to SoCal Valleys, Death and Owens

We are in Southern California on a wee adventure. We have our little trailer with our little dirt bikes, camping and motelling when the combined and/ors of too hot, cold, wet and windy make the camping very unenjoyable. We arrived at Death Valley first, and it’s high season. We had hoped to camp at Texas […]

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Prairies road trip Fall 2021 Travel

Take two, motorbiking in Saskatchewan (and Alberta too)

This is another late post, of a trip we took in the fall of 2021. It’s Jan 2022 now, we’re in the omicron wave 5? of Covid now. Hang in there folks, it’s all we can do. This post is a motorbike write up, with photos. Maps too, if I can figure that out. We […]

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Prairies road trip Fall 2021 Travel

Devils and Rainbows at Grasslands

We are at day five in the Grasslands National Park, a repeat of our visit last year, Sept 2020. We really like this place so very much. There’s such a sense of calm and serenity – yes I do realize it’s September, not January; and the weather has been favourable. But still, big skies, such […]

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Table tennis

Better but still comedy

We might be getting a little bit better but it’s definitely still comedy and we are having lots of fun!

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Bikes-Trucks-Trailers

XT250 starting problem

A mysterious, intermittent problem with starting the bike Problem described For a while now, Donna’s XT has on occasion refused to start when cold. The pattern seems to be: Engaging the starter, the engine fires and runs for a second or so and then cuts out. This can be repeated over and over on these […]

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Prairies road trip Fall 2020 Travel

Foothills, Icefields, Badlands and Devils

In the year of the pandemic, there was a window of time where the infection rate was low, and the second wave had not yet started. With US and international travel off the table, we thought we would travel across B.C. to Alberta and Saskatchewan, just to see what we could see. We travelled with […]

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Table tennis

Table tennis comedy

Donna and I have found a new way of having some pandemic-safe fun. We will get better 🙂

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Bikes-Trucks-Trailers

KLX250s big bore installation

The following is from a post I did on kawasakiforums.com during the 2020 pandemic Back in March when the pandemic first became an issue here in Canada and travel plans changed, I thought it would be a good time to do the B&B 351 Big Bore upgrade. Bill sent the kit right away but it […]