i may have a problem…
Get up at 8. Check the weather on laptop. Forecast: clear until noon; rain for the rest of the day. Maybe I can get a ride in before the…
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weathered
I woke up at 7:30 am to blue skies. But the outlook for Almonte, where I live, was ominous. Thunderstorms would – or rather could – roll in by…
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when old new friends meet again…
Annick and I met on either side of a gas pump at the Esso station in Almonte on September 9, 2022. We were both riding Yamahas at the time. We…
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are kilometers worth crowing about?
When I #RideTheHighlands, which is frequently, I often pitstop coming or going or sometimes both in Calabogie at The Calabogie Brewing Company, The Redneck Café or the Bogie General Store….
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5 reasons to do routes differently
In many ways, I am a creature of habit. I have the same thing every day for breakfast — which I eat at lunchtime — sometimes for months or…
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if at first you don’t quite succeed…
Today was YET ANOTHER PERFECT DAY for riding. Almost better than Sunday. As it was such an amazing day, I thought I would again try a loop to Barry’s…
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layers
I’m lucky to have been able to learn (completely unexpectedly), to ride a motorcycle during the last chapter of my life. It’s something I never imagined I might do….
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i’ll be glad when christmas is over
I wrote the poem below in December 2017, a little over a year after my mom died. I have shared it again each December since, when so many people…
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10 images from my mississippi mills
These are the ten images I entered in the Mississippi Mills Bi-Centennial Photo Contest. I don’t expect to win anything – there are so many amazing photographers in Mississippi…
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we rode a long way, baby
“I didn’t think you’d be back,” the Ottawa Safety Council (OSC) instructor said on the morning of September 12, 2021. It was day two of the OSC M1 exit course…
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