I did it. Survived another summer exile in the Arkansas of the Northwest and am soon to be blasting, well puttering- it is an old Subaru, back west across the desert to Bend. While the fire season was dismal here the time spent was not a total loss. I picked up Thumper, something I've been …
Month: September 2014
The wind, it BLOWS
Holy shitballs! Decided to get in some 'mellow' highway time to build up for the big ride home to Oregon in a couple weeks and maybe get in a little freeway action. Silly me forgot the forecast from yesterday mentioned something about wind. As in lots. So for 234 miles down hwy …
Goddamn, that was fun!
Read this much or talk to me for very long and you'll find me enraptured with my new love: Thumper, the KLR. Each ride is a boundary pusher/skill builder and it is just as fun as ice climbing minus the cold. Till winter, that is. Dammit, now I want to think about the awesomeness that …
A small favor to ask….
No, I don't need a date to the prom, new widgets for further farlking of the KLR or bail money. I've got this friend named Dave who just got home from the hospital after, in a matter of a few days, having chest pains, going to the ER, getting diagnosed with stage 3 testicular cancer, …
Egads!
Just saw a donkey fucking a mini horse. The mini horse was not amused.
2 Weeks and a wakeup!
Should the gods lose interest in my torment, the above noted time frame shall see me ripping balls out in Mighty Whitey: the fuck out of Ideeho and back to Bend, OR - home sweet home! 3 summers in and I have yet to find a reason to refer to Idaho as anything other than …
Putting it, and myself, to the test.
Well, that was a ball. And educational. What more could you ask for, really? About 11AM on Labor Day I got an idea to maybe get a ride in even though I was going to give the new paint job a day to cure. Fuck that. If (when, actually) it gets goobered I can always …
A Bored Firefighter is a Bad Idea….
Holy fuck, this has been a shit season. 1 little fire in the entire month of August, unprecedented in my career. I can hear the horseshit screed “Well, it’s good not to have fires. Smokey Bear and all that fire is evil shit.” Wrongo. It’s not like fuel conditions reset to zero if the shit …
It Was Only a Matter of Time
It begins again. Having long thought about reviving a blog all it took was a little boost from a friend to get another one of these things up and running. No promise of solid entertainment for the masses. Not to bum you out, but I write for me, not you. You just get to see …
ARID TERRA 