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 […]

A beautiful, sunny, warm day in Alberta today. A wonderful day for a motorcycle ride and to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. Happy Canada Day!

Day 2, Cranbrook to Keremeos, BC After our enormously satisfying Schnitzel-fest at Frank’s Steak & Schnitzel Haus, our group of 20 riders breaks up and head their separate ways. The main group heads south to Orofino, ID; our trio of riders from Victoria set Nelson, BC as their next destination; and […]

Our collective memory is failing.  Of the 20 hardy riders that made the annual Victoria Day weekend trek from Edmonton (and 3 from Victoria, BC), none of us could remember if this was the 10th or 11th year we’ve ridden to Cranbrook to indulge in schnitzel at Frank’s Steak & Schnitzel […]

About a year ago Ingrid and I were traveling with her brother and his wife on a 2-week tour of Europe. We did a lot of walking.  My brother-in-law, John, raved about the Ecco ‘walking’ shoes he was wearing.  On one day, we walked some 16 kilometers sightseeing in Prague. […]