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Finally dialed in. A (second) valve adjustment discovered a cracked cylinder head at a secondary air tube, requiring a replacement and all that goes with it. Rebuilt forks, new front rotors, new fuel level sending unit, flushed all hydraulics and coolant, changed all lubricants. This rides like...

Then to seemingly descend the level of insignificance, much like going lower than sea level, we motored to Badwater Basin and witnessed the come-back of a dead lake. Tipped. I can only hope the Great Salt Lake is as lucky. I got up early in the mornings and stood true to my resolve of getting...

Seems almost natural to kick off this riding season with a trip to Death Valley. It's been at the top of the list for a number of years now, either overland or adventure riding, especially with my fascination of the phenomenon of the Racetrack, and with health issues compounding, it was time to...

Explorer Tool Roll My $15 tool roll finally disintegrated along with the Triumph factory tool roll, and I had made enough changes to the kit to warrant a redo, always using the tools on board to do roadside and garage fixes, to remove, fix and replace fairings and gas tank, brake calipers and...

Oh, Sam, I'm heartbroken to hear about your companion. It appears her days were full and beautiful with you escorting her to the sights and sounds of your travel, the best therapy there is. I've subbed to your YT channel as well and see a lot of familiar trails. Keep it up. Travel is also a...

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I went back to my room, turned up the heat and crawled into bed and slept hard for almost ten hours. I would’ve slept longer were it not for Brian banging on my door at seven the next morning shouting, “They’re evacuating us! We’ve got to get moving.” The room was still strewn from the yard sale...

We reached our campsite at Lizard Creek on the north end of Jackson Lake and I quickly settled in for a nice late-afternoon in a hammock while all the miles accumulated to that point settled into me, stoking the effects of the maintenance chemotherapy and making me think I had no business being...

We went on to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and on to Denver where we took a break from riding and each other with our respective kids, his son in Denver and my daughter in Longmont. It was a good break. Time for some laundry, a shower or two, to check out the Explorer, to have remarkable...

Ed left the tour the following day making his own memorable solo ride back to Southern Utah with a promise that we’d ride together again, soon. Brian and I rode the Million Dollar Highway through Southwestern Colorado’s spectacular land. Not sure what it is about human nature that gets us to...

From my book, Forget that I'm Dying. The ride was in June, 2022. There were a number of ways I could’ve approached this ride, but the one I was most familiar with, the one I had practiced the majority of in my traveling life, was as a filmmaker. The ride was a route through the most...

Cylinder Head Replacement If you’ve ever worked on the top end of an internal combustion engine you know there are certain signs and indications that are cringeworthy, evidence of mechanical malfeasance that warrant holding one’s breath, only to exhale in an explicative or two. I usually have...

Awesome. Did you get a free chainsaw with that?

Nostalgia is biting hard today. Sure miss this Nomad.

She's cool with anything like that. She doesn't even tell me to change out of my good clothes when I'm on my way out to the barn.