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It's the eve of... - ... and there's the rub... the eve of what exactly? No doubt the eve of a momentous series of events with the only semi-certainty that our world, in just...19 hours ago
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Controlling the Machine. - The following post is adapted from an article published in the PEMC magazine. *Controlling the Machine: Two days of i2i training.* We meet Tom the in...
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Another Reason This Became a Bicycle Blog (and the Pursuit of Happiness) - I grew up loving motorcycles. Long before I rode them I obsessed about them. Being a Wisconsinite, the ones most often seen were Harley Davidsons....3 years ago
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Twelve years I've been writing this blog, now I'm closing it - On Monday this blog was twelve years old, my first post was on 1st June 2008. This month I'll be closing it down, if this is not the last post then whateve...
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Fake News - Fake news. Popularized by the current resident of the White House and his entourage, the term has come to mean “news with which we don’t agree”. No matter ...4 years ago
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What a Year! - 2018 was quite a year. I must apologize that it has been 6-months since my last blog post, but it seems I don't have a lot of time for puttering on the com...
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Yellowstone Trip Part 8 - Helena, Montana to Pincher Creek, Alberta - After leaving our Super 8 Motel (after an exciting breakfast of egg disks, super gristly bacon, and waffles- I actually just had toast) we headed onto I-...
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"HARLEY" MOPED - If you remember that nickname from 40 years ago. This one's a '79. Was in one piece but a wrench fell on it an it came apart. The only thing I know is the...
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Scooterbob has come out of winter hibernation! - ScooterBob at Esquimalt Lagoon, we just happened to look down and found the heart shaped rock! Last summer when I received ScooterBob it was high su...
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Changes are a'coming... - I did it. I finally did it. Sometime at the end of this month I'll be disengaging from the corporate teet. I've been at the end of my rope for a very long...6 years ago
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The Perfect Gift - Every rider I know subscribes to at least a few of the literary - or nonliterary if you prefer glossy pinups over the printed word - rags featuring the tw...
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It's Nano Time! - Phew, a bit dusty around here, isn't it? Seems like it was just November 2015 and here it is a year later already... Anyway, as usual, I'm participating i...8 years ago
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Why one-way motorcycle touring on your own bike makes sense - No, this isn’t a crafty plan to relieve you of your pride-and-joy at the end of a tour, but a clever way of letting you maximise the great times you have ...
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The Journey to the Journey - 4:15 am, that is what time we finally pull out of the drive. Our journey has begun. For the next three days there would be no motel rooms, no restaurants....8 years ago
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Blue Ridge Parkway - 2014 - Two years ago Teresa and I spent a week travelling the Blue Ridge Parkway. Here's a post I wrote but never shared here from that trip. Over the past 4 1/2...
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Just some Mountain Road trip Pictures - Mountain Riding Fun. If anyone wants to ride with us, come along this year. Not many take us up on it, guess they're skeered to ride the Python in Virginia...8 years ago
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A certain road.... - There's a certain well known, but mostly undesirable, road that is said to be paved with good intentions. I may have been down that road. Back in Se...
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Glacial Melt And Ball Drop... - Standing here on a New Jersey beach, a placid Atlantic Ocean before me, the news is not good. Two of the most relentless forces of nature are robbing me of...
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Signing Off - There were some strange emotions as I cleaned out Max for the last time. I went thru the underseat cargo area, decided what to keep and what not to. It ...
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Looks like two in a row - Yep, its another Diner Drive-in and Dive story, I almost forgot about this place. Lake Effect Diner, in buffalo, New York. Awhile back the wife and I wer...
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2015 Harley-Davidson Models, Lean Angles - 2015 H-D MODELS RIGHT (DEG) LEFT (DEG) NOTES SPORTSTER SUPERLOW 24.7 24.4 IRON 883 29 30 1200 CUSTOM 26.2 28.3 SUPERLOW 1200 T 25 26 FORTY-EIGHT 27....9 years ago
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Colder Than a Set of Steel Balls - Yeah, that's right...I said steel balls. I awoke today to a low temp of 18 degrees. Tonight it is said to be much colder. Single digits. I knows it's on...9 years ago
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Book Giveaway - Leanings 3 On the Road and in the Garage with Cycle Worlds's Peter Egan - I am giving away this hardcover copy of Leanings 3 - On the Road and in the Garage with Cycle World's Peter Egan. Please send an email to motorcyclesand...
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A DAY AT THE BEACH - Today we’re of to Serigerme beach, a little run of about 20 miles, more riding practice for my daughter, firstly though its find “Little Vic” a tortoise th...9 years ago
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It's Been a While... - Yup, it's been a long time since I last posted here. A lifetime ago, really. So... I have started another blog. It is not heavy with bellybutton gazing...9 years ago
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Hoo-Rag The Better Bandana - The multi functional hoo-rag looks like a great product. The hoo-rag folks sent me several Skull Daddy Hoo-Rags which is really special since they are curr...10 years ago
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The Big Move - I wrote a post almost two years ago titled "Sometimes it is the destination". In that post I wrote about a trip we were getting ready to take to visit fam...10 years ago
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Bragging Rights and the New Indians - Yes, I'm bragging. Our lovely Phoenix winter weather has afforded us with some beautiful riding weather. Again. And for those of my friends in sunny CA,...
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MAKE A WISH... AND BLOW! - Remember these? While doing some yard work recently, I noticed this lone standing dandelion and it actually stopped me in my tracks. I stood there and l...
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A day out with our friends :) - Its a grand day, the sun is shining and the sky is blue, lets go on a picnic. My neighbours Denise, Phyllis and Jemera took their car while Dave and I rode...14 years ago
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26 comments:
Great photos...planning on visiting soon?
After seeing your post, and reading John's, I would love to visit Turkey!
Is this a hint that you may be going to Istanbul? :)
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Hmmm...your second post on Istanbul, is your company sending you here, you will find it just a little warmer than Canada lol..
Cheers
Dave..
Before becoming a world most beautiful mosque - St Sofia was Eastern Orthodox church - the Turks just added the minarets :)
The title of your post says it all. Istanbul is "mon amour" too. I barely had arrived in this town, when its ambiance hit me fully. I spent one of the most extraordinary weeks of my life in Istanbul.
Ellievellie...you, NIKOS and I being of the same background and culture...we know the TURKS well...I am not too worried about what was, should have been or will be...Istanbul is still "mon amour" and will always be
Thom...possibly
Lance...me 2
Hi Jen...guess...!
Nikos.... generous at heart is what counts....beat them with generosity not hatred
Dave negotiating at the moment I'd love it to happen
Peter...you sure is special man...! are you Canadian by any chance? lol
great post!!
Great pics. Certainly is exotic and the food is excellent!:)
but.... it's a mans world.
America is for women :)
After seeing Istanbul in one of the Bond Films (I think From Russia With Love), I've always been interested in visiting someday,.
Wonderful post my friend.
Forgive my not visiting lately,
Bill...maybe we can all go over and visit our friends over there ...lol and enjoy their food and women... Thom could drive us around in one of them, made in Montreal, big Turkish buses
Great photos.
Hey baron!!
My fathers from turkey. He said alot has changed and he doesnt like it anymore. So he moved to Florida haha.
John, Thanks, they were from the net.
Prince Baro,
My paternal grand parents were from SIVAS, my maternal Grand pa was from Izmir... a life time away.... Florida is much better...it's a small world that's getting much smaller...Life is beautiful...enjoy it . Cheers
wow. very interesting. Maybe they met somehwere along the lines haha :)
cheers
PrinceBaro...highly unlikely but maybe possible. cheers mate. It is a small world for sure
Though you suggest it, and as you know, I am not a Canadian. But perhaps that fact that I sent my son 10 years ago to Montreal to make his professional pilot licence contributes to my "Canadian behaviour".
Peter...I Knew bloody well you were not Canadian just pulling your leg bud ....how did I know you had a Canadian connection?...so did he go to aviaition (Flying) school in St-Hubert?
That's where I lived....small world...
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