Women Riders Now has updated their article Oh No! I Dropped My Bike!: How to lift a downed motorcycle. The article gives you detailed, step-by-step instructions on picking up your bike — watch a 118 pound, 5-foot 3-inch woman pick up a 2000 BMW GS 1150. A great confidence builder! I know that this technique, […]
The Miss Adventuring Podcast has Launched
Tune in now to listen to the first show with Lisa Alpine, who makes her living as a travel writer and dance workshop leader. It all began on her 18th birthday when she boarded a plane to Paris and started working her way around the world. Lisa describes how she created a career of travel […]
D. Brent Miller and Carla King: A Conversation on Sojourn Chronicles
Today D. Brent and I talked on his Sojourn Chronicles show "Conversations" about my 2007 and 1998 motorcycle trips to China and my upcoming book Under the Radar, plus my new Miss Adventuring Internet radio show to launch in January. Here are the links. Sojourn Chronicles Conversations (December 2007, China and Miss Adventuring) Sojourn Chronicles […]
Northern China on a Sidecar Motorcycle
Tomorrow I set out for China with a huge duffel bag full of warm and rainproof motorcycling clothes for an October ride through the northeast of the country. I’ll be landing in Beijing at 2:30 in the afternoon to be greeted by none other than Teresa Howes, the woman I stayed with a decade ago […]
American Borders Motorcycle Travelogue available this week
I know I’ve been quiet lately but I have a good excuse…really! I finally finished the print version of the American Borders travelogue, and it’s launching this month with a few events, starting with a reading in San Francisco, then a motorcycle show in Chicago, then the SF Writer’s Conference, then a motorcycle show in […]