Halloween 2020 -Part 1: Pitching Camp

Halloween 2020 -Part 1: Pitching Camp

Ever notice how traditions spring from repetition, almost without our noticing? Apparently, my brother and I have a traditional Halloween camp-out. Every year, we go up in the woods, camp, carve Jack O'Lanterns, hunt mushrooms, drink too much, and eat too much....

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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...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

10/31/25 8:00 cool calm and beautiful .  A lovely sunrise Halloween morning out on The Big Lava Bed after a beautiful moonlit night. Got a slow start this morning and had breakfast  for lunch.                    ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/30/25 6:30 34F (1C) Calm, dark, cold.   The moon,  waxing into  the third quarter has long since set, leaving only the stars to challenge the darkness.  The thermometer shows 34f, but everything is coated with a thin, bumpy layer of ice. It is the first...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      10/29/25 7:00 40F (4.4C) Clearing skies with a slight, cool breeze. The deck is littered with wet leaves, slick from last night's rain. Walter is conversing with the neighborhood dogs. It is good to be home.          ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/28/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Cloudy,  calm, dark.  Amy is sleeping.  The nieghbors rose earlier, rattling the pipes with their morning shower.  Outside it looks about the same as yesterday: dry, still dark, some traffic and a few people walking.  A bicycle went by...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    10/27/25 6:30 46F (7.7C) The city glows through a thin fog, the sounds of Monday morning traffic muffled by thick curtains and 115 year old brick walls of the Hotel Sorrento. A jet rumbles overhead. An ambulance wails up Madison, climbing the steep hill...

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