A few of my more competitive family members enrolled to compete in the Lake Tahoe XTERRA triathlon this last weekend, which made for a great excuse to join them and enjoy a little Tahoe vacation. On Thursday and Friday we happily biked the trails around the lake. It looked like this, but it wouldn’t last.From […]
This motorcycle put me in the hospital
We’d ridden together before. In fact, several times, putting around Portland, just touring the city and the surrounding countryside. I’d put about half an hour at a time on her, maybe an hour once or twice. But this trip was going to be longer. I was heading to The Dalles the long way around, riding […]
Motorcycles and Misfits Podcast in Santa Cruz
Join me on the Motorcycles and Misfits podcast recorded Sunday August 15, 2021 in Santa Cruz at the Re-Cycle Garage. Enjoy Podcast 432: Moto Laureate Carla King on Youtube and Soundcloud or Apple Podcasts or wherever you like to listen to podcasts and please subscribe!Listen on SoundCloud.Sunday afternoons are a thing here, highly entertaining and educational, too. Oil pan provided. Tools. Advice. Bring your […]
Burn Cream for Motorcycle Chrome & Campfire Burns
This magic burn cream healed my motorcycle chrome burn in two days; I kid you not. I learned about Ching Wan Hung herbal balm years ago from a Chinese herbalist in San Francisco. Whatever’s in this stuff, it stops the pain almost immediately and heals burns in a fraction of the time than with any […]
Notes from Santa Cruz
July 16, 2021At sunrise I take my coffee to the cliffs and scan the sea through the fog. There are fishermen in pangas or skiffs—whatever the name is for those small, simple boats—in Baja they were everywhere and here, too, but here they bristle with fishing rod racks and holders, and have proper lighting and […]
Notes from Santa Cruz
15-July-2021 This morning was so foggy and cold that I wanted to stay in bed all day and read. But now it’s noon fifteen in mid-July and the sky has cleared in a pale blue wash of beyond the crooked cypress tree that shelters a murder of crows in its emerald green shadows. Beyond is […]