Breakfast at the Bristlecone Motel in Ely was pretty slim pickings, with not much aside from cereal and packaged pastries, but I grabbed some coffee and made the best of things. Just after 7:00, the Harley guys were hitting the road, and I wasn’t too far behind them being ready
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2024-09-19: Rapid City to Steamboat Springs
After a pretty short day of riding and seeing the sights of Southwest South Dakota, I woke up on Thursday with a plan to take on a much longer day of riding. Today, the goal was to ride in three states, starting in Rapid City, South Dakota and traveling through
Continue reading »2024-09-18: Pierre to Rapid City
I had a reasonable night’s sleep at the Days Inn in Pierre. There was a very average complimentary breakfast on offer that I availed myself of before I got myself ready to jump on the bike and hit the road. It was due to be another lovely, but windy, day
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After traveling well past sundown the night before, it was nice to enjoy my extra hour of sleep that I’d earned by crossing into the Central Time Zone when I entered Minnesota. Marvin Bohn’s place was very restful, and I slept right through until my alarm went off at 7:00am.
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I woke up with it still dark outside to the sound of a hard rain falling outside. I checked the weather forecast on my phone to see a quick band of passing showers, not bad. But then, zooming out, I saw a massive band of showers between me and my
Continue reading »2024-09-15: Sudbury to Marathon
Chris and I woke up before dawn to be ready the moment the hotel started serving breakfast at 7:00am. We were all packed up and ready and enjoyed one of the best complimentary hotel breakfasts I’ve had before. Next, we got all of our stuff down to the bikes and
Continue reading »2024-09-14: Ottawa to Sudbury
My time in Ottawa visiting with family had drawn to a close, and it was time to start my trip back to the San Francisco Bay Area. With my riding partner having flown back last weekend, it was due to be a very different trip on the return than it
Continue reading »2024-08-26 to 2024-08-13: Ottawa
After arriving in Ottawa in the darkness the night before, Chris, and I had to get up bright and early to start our respective workdays. We let The Captain sleep in as we took Wiley, the dog, for his usual first-thing-in-the-morning walk. Luckily, both Chris and I work remote from
Continue reading »2024-08-24: Sault Sainte Marie to Owen Sound
We began our first day in Canada with Chris “the Captain” Weld and my brother, Chris Geggie enjoying the hotel-provided breakfast. Let me tell you, I enjoyed my Canadian yogurt much better than that junk Yoplait we had at the Econolodge in Livingston. Well fed, we gathered our belongings from
Continue reading »2024-08-23: Hurley to Sault Ste Marie
Our night in the classy Love branded motel in Hurley, Wisconsin was actually much better than either Chris or I had expected. The beds were firm, but comfortable, and the shower was actually pretty great as I found out first thing in the morning. There was drizzle falling however, so
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