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Installing Wrayal’s Sidecar

Installing Wrayal’s Sidecar

This article first appeared in Sidecar Traveller Nr.46 October 2019 I recently spent a couple days helping a friend swap his sidecar from a BMW G650 GS to a F800 GS. The 650 was his first sidecar rig; he’d gotten a smoking deal on it and it had served its purpose...

First Fall Foray

First Fall Foray

Summer 2020 in Oregon featured plague, drought, and catastrophic forest fires, but it had been raining hard the first few days of fall. Mike and I went up in the woods Friday to see if we could find any mushrooms. Walter Dawg and I arrived before Mike. Once parked, I...

Birthday Furlough Camp

Birthday Furlough Camp

  My corporate overlords asked for volunteers for a one-week furlough as part of their pandemic austerity measures. I was not sure I was in a better place financially to take the hit than they were, but I was certain I could put the time off to good use, so I...

Out in the Midday Sun

Out in the Midday Sun

The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a magical place. Elk, deer, bears, and cougars wander through the tall trees and berry fields. Caves and outcroppings of weirdly contorted lava dot the landscape.                 During...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/14/26 5:15 33F (0.5C) Cloudy, dark. It's stopped snowing. It was just a little above freezing and snowing when we arrived at Spokane yesterday  afternoon and still snowing when we went to bed . The snow was wet, so little accumulation and the main...

Good Morning

Good Morning

      Friday the thirteenth, March, 2026 5:30 50F (10C) The rain has stopped.  It is dark and windy. Overhead  strong west winds send the clouds racing by patches of stars. On the ground,  blustery gusts grumble through the bare oaks making the trees...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/11/26 6:30 40F (4.4C) Dark.  Raining. In a fit of random, subconscious neologism, I dreamt of ventricular matriculation. It made sense at the time but now I have no idea what it means.                  ...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/10/26 6:50 30F (-1C) The sky is clear except for a few straggling strands of clouds who didn't get the memo. The light has that peculiar shade of blue that comes early on a crisp winter morning: a deep illumination, not bright, but not dim. Ducks...