I was reviewing my website and noticed that despite traveling over 20,000 miles in 2022 I hadn’t taken a single trip for the purposes of travel (everything was racing or wedding related). Since I didn’t want to go a whole year without having a “pleasure” or “fun” trip I looked for somewhere similar to Marfa…
Well… this wasn’t supposed to happen. I was supposed to be writing about the rugged Alaska wilderness… an adventure with no dog and only two wheels but what happened instead was a really incredible and memorable one. I was supposed to take a sabbatical and head to Alaska on my DRZ400 supermoto bike but coronavirus…
Why did this trip come about?
2019 was an interesting year for me. I had some highs and lows career-wise that both ultimately led me to start thinking about life goals and what I want to achieve. I never really had a revelation or a clear solution but what I did start to think about was…
The only thing riskier than buying a vehicle before test driving it? ….driving it across the country to get it home.
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A few photos from some quick sight-seeing on a business trip. Managed to get up to the highlands in Scotland to see Loch Ness (but not the monster) and some of the tourist spots and graffiti spots in London.
In what has become a tradition of taking a major trip in between jobs like I did in 2011 and 2012, I continued the trend this…
Moon Craters, Evel Knielval Jumps, Ghost Towns and breaking landspeed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Evel Knievel’s Snake River Jump Site in Twin Falls, Idaho
Metropolis, Nevada (Ghost Town)
Bonneville…
I rented a more civil Civic and drove to North Carolina from Austin, TX. On the way up I made stops at Barber Motorsports Park and Talladega Super Speedway. I rented a BMW G450X Supermoto and rode Tail of the Dragon and surrounding areas. On the way back I stopped in Chattanooga TN and Hot…
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