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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.