224 miles I’d chosen Pendleton as a stopping point because it would give me an easy ride into Stevenson the next day. What didn’t realize is that it would take me in along the Columbia Gorge. Wow, what beautiful ride! As I was riding along the highway, I started to…
548 miles My day started with a bit of panic. I could not find my panniers’ key. Turns out I had left the key in the lock overnight. Truth be told, I had bought a spare key that won’t start the bike, it has a proximity sensor, for exactly this…
557 Miles This year, instead of heading to Europe to ride with my friends, I decide that I would do some riding in my “backyard”. Ducati have an annual event called Giro Alpino that is only open to Ducati Multistrada riders. The 2024 event is being held in Stevenson Washington.…
229 Miles After the overnight ferry from Rotterdam to Hull, it was a pain getting off the boat. They unloaded the lower decks before ours and there were long lines getting through immigration. Hull was as I remember it from my time there in the 1980s, cold, wet, and windy.
208 miles Today was the last day of all the gang being together. Martyn’s plan was to stay in Germany and do some more exploring before heading back to the UK later. As the forecast called for rain and we could not check in at the ferry until 4:30 in…
352 miles The trip out of Poland and back into Germany had a single goal. Get us into position for an easy trip across Holland and to the ferry on Monday. As such, it was another big riding day. It was all motorways and once again on the autobahn it…
390 Miles Let me start by saying that it should only have been 190 miles.
166 miles Nysa is a plain little town on the Czechia border with Poland. We ended up staying at a quaint, loosely termed, hostel close to the center of town. The place was probably built in the 1930s or so. It had expansive rooms that were stacked with antique furniture…
88 miles Given the weather was supposed to turn from sunny, hot, and the 90s (30 or something in Celsius) to rain, we decided to hole up in Krakow for a couple of days. As we were only an hour or so from Auschwitz, I decided that I was going…
156 miles Today was another day following the Vistula river south and east to Kraków. I was nominated for lead off as everyone else’s nav was taking us back to the ferry. For whatever reason, my gps did not agree with anyone else’s and after constant re-routing they turned theirs…