Saturday, July 2, 2011 As usual, I started the tour late. My claim the previous evening to leave “as soon as the sun rises” was about as accurate as the Regina media’s claim that Paul McCartney was actually going to … Continue reading Day 1: Band on the Run
Friday, July 23- Monday, July 26, 2010 Originally the tour was supposed to be 13 days and on Day 13 I would arrive back home in the Battlefords. However, I received a late tour invitation to shoot down to Canmore with some … Continue reading Days 13-16: Going home
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 I woke up with optimism. I had a helluva long way to go today. I had a dead battery and probably needed new spark plugs from all the flooding. The first thing I did was go … Continue reading Day 18: Get Back
Ten hour work days. Major life decisions. Living in a Camry. Increasing expectations. This is what I hoped to leave behind as I left Saskatchewan and headed west. After the success of last year’s Easy Rider Tour 2006 and what … Continue reading Prologue & Day 1: All Hell for a Basement
Wednesday, August 19- Thursday, August 20, 2009 I left North Battleford late in the day on Wednesday. The weather was horrible. It was not cold, but the wind was howling from the west and I rode Silver directly into it. … Continue reading Days 1 & 2: Rocky Mountain High
Sunday, June 29, 2008 I left North Battleford quite late, mostly due to an iPod that suddenly developed an attitude problem that no amount of online troubleshooting was able to fix. After a 5:00pm departure that was supposed to be … Continue reading Day 1: Fox on the Run
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