323 miles Today was my last day of the trip and I was ready to get home. Even with that, I preferred to use the back roads rather than the head straight down the interstate. The day got off to a slow start. At the hotel, I ordered a breakfast…

469 miles Given I was so close to Yellowstone, I figured I had to travel through it to get to Casper. Trying to plan the route with Apple Maps was most infuriating. It kept routing me out of the park by the same way I came in. It seemed to…

389 miles The trip from Coeur d’Alene to Bozeman was a lot of highway. Beautiful highway but highway non the less. My one way to take a break from it was to route through Helena rather than Butte. Crossing the Idaho/Montana border, I had chance to pull over and take…

356 miles Today was the last day in Stevenson but heading out and setting off home. I planned to go up to Coeur d’Alene Idaho and meet my friend Jason Hover who I worked with for three years at Datasource Consulting on the Kaiser Permanente Colorado account. The day greeted…

217 miles Today was a scavenger hunt where you could ride alone or in a group. At dinner last night, our table basically decided that we would all ride together. Our philosophy was that we wanted to visit as many sites as possible but we wanted to see them to…

270 miles Today was all about group riding. In the morning, we all rode together to lunch. In the afternoon, after lunch we rode the first part of the route together and then split into two groups for a road route and an off-road route. The morning route from the…

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.…