Author - frenchy

Music City USA

Spending the week in Nashville, one of my Top Five favorite cities. It’s hard not to have a good time here, especially if you like good live music, and very easy to have too good a time, especially if you like beer, live music, and beer. Next week, it’s back to the grind, but...

Great Depression of 08

For all the people that have lost a huge chunk of their retirement savings over the past few days all I can say is spending all my money on motorcycles and whisky suddenly doesn’t seem like it was such a bad idea.

Postscript: Back to the ‘Real World’

As I am sure most can appreciate, lots of preparation and planning goes in to an undertaking like this one. Routes, distances, maps, time management and all that, but my most important trip prep, besides making sure the Macallan flasks are full, is socks. At the start of every long ride I...

The End?

There isn’t really that much left to tell. Once in California, there were only a few hundred miles between us and the conclusion of the trip. It was hard to believe, but if we went in a straight line down the highway our Epic Ride could easily be over by lunchtime. So, I scoured the...

Out of the Freezer

The morning after dawned cold, but clear. The worst was over, and having come this far, and gone through this much, I knew things could only get better from here. During the night it was really cold. How cold was it? So cold that before we left, Dark Meat Snack pulled a what looked like a...