Category: Motorcycle Camping
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Riding With Pain
Often, I think of my youth. I was always able to find a way to get what I wanted done, as long as it only required physical effort. I was small for the first fifteen years of my life, small but spry. I was capable of almost anything physical that I set my mind to.…
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Twelve Camping Technology Musts for Motorcycle Camping
When traveling by motorcycle and camping at my age of (72), shortly, there are a few technologically more advanced items that I require, particularly if I’m heading into the wilderness, which I plan to do. These aren’t your typical mainstream must-haves. You have the basics. A tent, sleeping bag, water, food, utensils, cooking heat source,…
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Camp Cot Tent or Camp Cot and Tent?
I’m in the process of trying to decide if a camp cot tent would make more sense than carrying a tent and a cot on my motorcycle. Ease of use is probably the determining factor, combined with the physical size of a decent camp cot, like Teton’s XXL camp cot. Is there any single manufacturer…
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The Best Tent, for Me
Motorcycle camping is something that I have enjoyed, however, now that I have a piece of steel that sticks out of my leg very close to my knee, I can no longer kneel down. It appears that a new tent that can accommodate me walking in and out, instead of crawling in and out, may…
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Consensus and a Plan
Today, my surgeon and I reached a consensus on what needs to happen going forward concerning my leg. I need to have surgery again to remove the steel appliance and the screws in my right leg. He wants me to have the surgery in the fall, as this gives me the best prognosis and outcome.…
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Do You Hear Something?
About 52 years ago I took an extensive road trip on a Triumph T100R that I had arranged a loan on, and for which I had provided that individual with my car in lieu of payment. A buddy of mine, Dick, was a novice motorcyclist, and the two newbies that we were decided to take…