The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become - Charles DuBois

I’ve put a first blog post from the road up on my motorcycling blog, A Boy And His Bike. The initial post also contains a link to the Flickr collection I’ll be uploading photos from the trip to. I’m overnighting in Florence, Oregon and will finish up the trip tomorrow. Now, I’m off to bed to […]

I’m leaving today for a 5-6 day trip down to Fortuna, CA on my motorcycle. It’s an annual pilgrimage of west coast members from the Sport-Touring.net website. In honor of the trip, here’s 13 things I’ll see while I’m on the road. The Oregon border as I cross the Columbia River at Longview An SUV driver with […]

Today is a flurry of wrapping things up at work, picking up a few odds and ends I need for the trip, laundry, packing. And oh yes, putting the bike back together. I’m having a hard time getting motivated for some reason. I’m in a really strange place mentally and emotionally this week. I don’t do […]

Where did my three-day weekend go? Why didn’t I accomplish more? How are you supposed to know the answers to these questions?! My bike is laying around the car port (bike port?) in pieces but at least the oil is changed and the air filter cleaned. I just need to button it up and wipe it […]

This was a long, strange week. It all worked out in the end though. The first part of the week I was stressed because I had my annual physical on Wednesday. I probably shouldn’t have been stressed but visiting the doctor is not my favorite thing. Overall it went well. He’s adjusting my meds a […]

I’m doing something different and focusing on a single album this week. And it’s not really a new album, it came out last year as an independent release and has now been distributed through Universal. It’s definitely new to me and wow, talk about music that grabbed my mind and wouldn’t let go. Let me warn […]

If you knew that every minute of the next 24 hours of your life would be recorded on camera is there anything you would change about your habits? I don’t think I’d change much of anything. I live a fairly transparent life. I try to be honest about who I am and what I believe. I […]

What a beautiful weekend in Seattle! The weather was fantastic. Warm. Sunny. For a couple of days we got a real taste of Summer weather. Of course, the forecast is for cloudy and cooler this week. That’s Seattle too. The kids were over Friday and Saturday. We didn’t really do anything amazing, just relaxed and hung […]

Thirteen things I want to do before I depart this mortal coil. Tour Scotland and Ireland on motorcycle Tour parts of Australia on motorcycle Visit the Grand Canyon (I’ve flown over it, but never been there!) Visit Alaska (yes, on a motorcycle) Fly in a glider Own a convertible sports car (A Mazda Miata would be nice!) Produce a short film (HD […]

I should have just titled this Too Much Good Music! I finally narrowed it down to seven tracks, though technically one of those came out last week and I missed it. Even with seven songs, I left out some stuff I really wanted to share. What can I say? It was a good week for […]