The Peripatetic Traveler

I’m still cleaning off my desk. With tonight’s post, I’ll be able to get one more piece of paper off it and into the trash. YAY! Last year I wrote a...

I was cleaning off my desk this weekend, in preparation for my next trip (canoeing down the Green River, in Utah), and I found a piece of paper with some post-motorcycle-adventure...

Although these people will never know it, I’m very grateful to them for helping me out on my ride: The guest (a young woman) and the desk clerk (a young man)...

As I traveled in July and August, and blogged about it, I had the occasional request to let people see, on a map, where I had been. It took a while,...

It was a hail of a day! Sunday morning, my last day on the road for a while, dawned clear and beautiful, as desert days usually do. I stacked and packed...

I hate it when reality rears its ugly head. After a day of bliss on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS), I had to put some serious miles on the...

How do I describe a day of bliss in a blog post? There are facts: The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) runs at least two trains daily (one eastbound, one westbound)...

With a total distance of over 550 miles (as the Honda rolls) between Casper, Wyoming, and Antonito, Colorado, I knew it would take two days to make the trip. I also...

Would the last one leaving please turn out the lights? That’s how I felt the Monday I left Sturgis. I also had a flashback to my college days, when I would...

In my last post I told you about visiting the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site and then ran out of space. There was still a lot of day left when I departed...