A few images from our 2008 tour to Gillette, Wyoming for the BMW national rally.  Some great memories riding with good friends.

Let’s face it.  Camera equipment is expensive, especially if you’re a photo ‘enthusiast.’ ‘Pro’ photographers have their equipment purchased for them or if they’re freelancers, they can write off (depreciate) the cost of their equipment against their income. We regular photographers have to think long and hard before buying new […]

Sunday Recap: Officially, it’s Day 3 of our 4-day tour. After a brutal 2 hour ride over Roger’s Pass, Montana, (where the air temperature dropped to a brutally cold -2 Celsius, with blowing rain/sleet and slush building up on the roadway just to add a little riding ‘interest’), we pull […]

Day 3, Orofino to Great Falls, 610 km Saturday night between mouthfuls of Konkolville Motel’s 16 oz. grilled steak, we’ve been discussing our route home for Sunday and Monday. Before supper, we thought we had been brilliant planners, preparing for possible bad weather on our 2-day return trip from Orofino to […]

Day 2:  Choteau, MT to Orofino, ID – 645 km From the small ‘city’ (according to the State of Montana) of Choteau (pop. 1684), we make our customary ‘wheels up’ departure at 0800h. It’s another cool, overcast day, and honestly, the weather isn’t the sunny, warm and dry day that […]

Day 1:  Edmonton to Choteau, Montana, 723 km (Scroll to end of page for route map, edited Sept. 8/2017) Late September is always an ‘iffy’ time for a Fall motorcycle tour, especially in Alberta. In 2014, we managed a glorious Fall tour into Montana, Idaho and back to Alberta in […]

We visited Boston for 9 days for a big family event, and as usual, Boston never disappoints. Packed with Ivy League and countless other universities, the Boston area is a hot bed of higher academia and for hi tech enterprises. And the restaurants are superb.  We dined with Boston relatives […]