Posts under ‘motorcycle’

Technically, I am still on vacation as school doesn’t start for a few weeks yet. Realistically, my summer is kinda of over as the work at the school is heading  into it’s third week. We’re planning for one last gasp of a trip to Manitoulin next week, a four day ride which will be not [...]

It’s 34 celcius outside, with a humidex value of 44 celcius. To those folks who resist the elegant simplicity that is metric, that translates to 94 degrees that feels like 110-ish. I had to spend enough time outside today that the heat and humidity have taken it’s toll; I’m feeling slow and draggy and would [...]

It’s the middle of June, and we still haven’t decided where we’re going for the summer road trip. It feels odd. In all our previous road trips, the decision would have been made months ago, and by now I would have accumulated a stack of state/provincial tourism pamphlets and maps. Originally, we’d thought of going [...]

Finally. After what felt like weeks of going back and forth with insurance agents, I was able to get all the ducks in a row so I could ride this weekend. My pal, Moose, has his bike license now and agreed to join me. What can I say about riding that I haven’t said before? [...]

I really wasn’t sure how today was going to work out when I got out of bed this morning. I woke up tired and sore, as if I had worked a regular day, had 2 hours of cello lesson/practice and performed in a very long but very fun version of Peter Pan staged by the [...]

Wanted to pick up my new helmet that I ordered a few weeks ago. Can’t. It’s still not in. I went to go renew my license for the bike. Can’t. Insurance has expired. Went home to grab the so-called automatic renewal. Can’t. It wasn’t automatically renewed. Called my insurance agent to ask a polite WTF? [...]

I’m not teaching for most of this week as I’m communing with my people. Three days surrounded by people who speak the same language I do, who grok what I’m trying to do because they’re trying to do it to. Three days of hanging out with geek teachers. Three days of not being the only [...]

Such a crappy day outside. Dreary. that’s the word. So grey outside I’ve had to turn on some lights inside, making little pools of yellow cheer in the dark living room. Gusts of wind rattle the windows, driving the rain against the glass so hard that it sounds like tiny pebbles rather than water. I [...]

I’m heading out tomorrow morning on the bike for another jaunt up to the north country, near Killarney Provincial Park. This will be slightly different than the trip to Manitoulin Island last week. For one thing, it’s not a traveling vacation; I’m going to one place and that’s it. And while it’s a cottage, there [...]

I looked at my husband over a plate of ribs last night and between bites, told him how productive I’d been during the day while he was working. “I worked on a blog site for a friend, then tweaked a client’s site a bit. I wrote another Alaska tale and edited two others. I finished [...]