Whitehall, MT Hit rain coming out of Bozeman. I usually don’t stop, but this was intense. Made it Whitehall and bought a burrito and the rain stopped. Old timer pronounced “Yeah, you might get lucky.”
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Salina
Fill up. No gas for 100 miles.
6.20 Missoula with James and Adela
Safely tucked into the La Belle garage. That’s James’ red bike on the left, and Adela’s red, white, and blue bike front and center. I am safe and sound at the home of my dear friends, James and Adela. I pulled in about 7:30 and James and Adela fed me and took me to the …
Train. Life. Part Two
If Texas is dry then California is uneven. Since morning I watched the sky and since morning it is unchanged, a strange shell impossibly near but otherwise enveloping all. Sewn into rolling hills and foothills of mountains patched here and there with varied gum and iron bark breeds the spent husks of their kind …
Train. Life. Part 1
While I was riding from LA back to Colorado, my dear friend Justin Adock was taking a lifetime trip by Amtrak from Mississippi to Oakland. I’ve known Justin for twenty years now. We’ve done a few short comics together, and he just published the fantastic gothic piney woods western, Into the Pines. Pick up a …
Home!
More anon!
Day 2: Forest Grove, OR (588 miles)
“You just keep going You just keep trying to get right down to the crux.” —John Coltrane I discovered these lines painted on the wall of the Equinox room of the McMenamins Grand Lodge, where I am right now practicing my paper for tomorrow’s meeting of the International Motorcycle Studies Journal Conference. Coltrane is a …
Day 2 (starting out)
Dreamt of rain & an involved Dungeons and Dragons game with a coworker. Did a double take when I realized I still have another 600 miles ahead of me. Lots of Harley’s in the lot. Two weeks or so from Sturgis, they’re all headed east.
Onwards! 