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  • Lone Wolves

    Lone Wolves

    [Originally published in the BMW Riders Association “On The Level” magazine, July 2025. I used to be the Editor in Chief/Chief of Content there. It’s a good group of BMW enthusiasts. If you own a BMW, consider joining] I see it every year, groups of riders streaming through the main entrance gate of the BMW…

  • Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 2

    Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 2

    [This story begins here] Day two on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail, from the Dravo Hiker-Biker to the new hiker-biker campground in Ohiopyle. The day includes a little bit of weather. Well, more than a little bit. It started off fine though, and I enjoyed morning camp coffee before hitting the trail. I pedaled…

  • 2023 BMW R 1250 RS story published in “On The Level”

    2023 BMW R 1250 RS story published in “On The Level”

    “But the RS scratches the sport-touring bike itch in a way that the RT and (even the new) GS just can’t. This isn’t a matter of which one is faster or which one is better. This is a matter of feel—how connected I feel to the bike and to the moment. That kinesthetic high that…

  • Witness: August 21, 2017, Mackay, Idaho

    Witness: August 21, 2017, Mackay, Idaho

    It was just another beautiful morning in the high desert. I put on the solar glasses and tracked the moon’s collision course with the sun. I nommed on an energy bar, chatted with my neighbors, and looking up again, I saw the sun then half-obscured, but everything else seemed normal. Only at 80-percent coverage did…