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Motorcycle days: Salvador Dali's gas station
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Friday, February 27, 2009. Salvador Dali's gas station. It's already hot as we leave the hotel in the morning in Ehrenberg, Arizona, and cross the state line into California. We're looking for a gas station because the one next to the hotel was packed with cars and some of the pumps weren't working, which guaranteed sweaty, irritable waits. We'd endured soul-killing heat throughout Arizona and I was too tired to fill up the night before. To give this guy som...
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Motorcycle days: Capt. Shepherd's smashing good ride
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Capt Shepherd's smashing good ride. Have much respect for the guys who rode across the country decades ago. Think about it: Bad roads, mechanically questionable bikes, spotty gasoline supply…makes our interstate rides look like spa vacations. Those are the dry facts. He bounced across the country and wrote a book titled. Across America by Motor-Cycle. Hi, brother, got anything edible on board? He is given to frequent remarks on lang...
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Motorcycle days: The 1964 odyssey
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Monday, February 23, 2009. I think my fascination with motorcycles truly began in February 1964 when Robert McDaniel, an adventurous uncle of mine, rode a black 305cc Honda Dream from San Diego to Cleveland, more than 2,000 miles. But he toughed it out, kept going and finally arrived; Instamatic photos show him exhausted and disheveled in a black motorcycle jacket, images of family legend. I tell you of his ride because it was the first pivotal moment in my ...
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Motorcycle days: March 2009
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Capt Shepherd's smashing good ride. Have much respect for the guys who rode across the country decades ago. Think about it: Bad roads, mechanically questionable bikes, spotty gasoline supply…makes our interstate rides look like spa vacations. Those are the dry facts. He bounced across the country and wrote a book titled. Across America by Motor-Cycle. Hi, brother, got anything edible on board? He is given to frequent remarks on lang...
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Motorcycle days: February 2009
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Friday, February 27, 2009. Salvador Dali's gas station. It's already hot as we leave the hotel in the morning in Ehrenberg, Arizona, and cross the state line into California. We're looking for a gas station because the one next to the hotel was packed with cars and some of the pumps weren't working, which guaranteed sweaty, irritable waits. We'd endured soul-killing heat throughout Arizona and I was too tired to fill up the night before. To give this guy som...
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Motorcycle days: Jack Kerouac is dreaming of a motorcycle
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Sunday, March 15, 2009. Jack Kerouac is dreaming of a motorcycle. Have always been mildly disappointed that Kerouac never wrote about riding motorcycles. He was much more interested in cars, probably taking his cue from Neal Cassady, who reportedly stole hundreds of them as a teen in Denver. I'm certainly not a Kerouac scholar, but I've found only a single reference to motorcycles in Kerouac's writing; I stumbled across it in his. Book of Dreams,. 100,000 Mi...
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Motorcycle days: Crossing paths
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Monday, February 23, 2009. This station used to be a Texaco, but corporate deals have turned it into a Shell. Lots of vacationers stop here, many recreational vehicles and SUVs, whose occupants spill out of their air-conditioned compartments in search of drinks and bathrooms and look shocked as they're hit by the heat. There's no such surprise for a motorcycle rider. Thanks," I say. "Where you headed? San Diego," he says. "You? We just came from there. W...
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Motorcycle days: Out of the rain
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Monday, February 23, 2009. Out of the rain. I'm on the motorcycle, rolling westbound on I-10 outside of El Paso in western Texas in the early evening when I see a huge dark cloud build up to the south. It's so impressive I stop and take a few pictures as I put on a jacket. A stack of sandbags lines one inside wall. I back the motorcycle into the opposite corner and set her up on the centerstand. Then I put my helmet and gloves on the top row of sandb...Hi," ...
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Motorcycle days: Cyril and his motorcycle
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Stories and anecdotes about motorcycle travel. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Cyril and his motorcycle. Y father's family came from Slovakia. My grandfather grew up in Drahovce, about an hour's travel from Bratislava, the capital. He emigrated to the United States for better opportunities when he was 19, before World War I. He left behind his parents and two sisters, the younger of which was the mother of Cyril Kudela, the gentleman you see here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 1 Fill up whenever you can.
