Just making it up

And then sometimes you just have to ride and make it up as you go. … There are days when the road calls and all you want to do is sit and watch the world pass beneath you.  Just you, the road, and your thoughts. There are other days where it’s nice to share the moment,…

To Ride

Riding through the countryside the other weekend, through the fog as it burns off in the morning sun, past the hundreds of birds as they take flight, and through main streets of small country towns that time has forgotten. Do car drivers see this? Do they feel the towns they pass through? Or are they…

Hawaii – Island of O’ahu

Our visit to the Island of O’ahu was the location of the 2015 Stampin’ Up Grand Vacation awarded to top achieving demonstrators and their plus one.  I was luck enough to be a plus one.  This leg of our trip was about kicking back and relaxing and due to the way we configured our time here…

Hawaii – The Big Island

this has taken a few days to get to … I’m not sure where that time has gone but our time exploring Hawaii’s Big Island is over.  While we haven’t had much of a chance to just sit we have taken an awful lot in in our time here.  The Big Island has something for…

Hawaii – Volcanoes … Blown away

Sorry, that was a bad pun. As soon as we found out that we were going to Hawaii the one thing we really wanted to do was a helicopter flight over the volcano.  After all,  how often do you get to see volcanoes. We ended up flying with Paradise Helicopters as they were the only…

Hawaii – not quite what I expected

We are lucky enough to be in Hawaii through Stampin’ Up after all the hard work Deb has put in over the last year.   I’m the lucky plus one to accompany her. However, flying into Hawaii yesterday was a bit of an anti-climax.   We had been on the  plane for 9 hours,  it was 3:30am…

Weekend ride in the mountains

There’s something empowering about riding alone.  Setting you’re own schedule, changing plans on the fly, not having to come to consensus on decisions, and overcoming obsticles as they arise.  Don’t get me wrong, hanging out in a group is good but you have a lot of different issues to contend with. Maybe its the introvert…

That Man

30 years ago I met a man that quite frankly scared me. This man was uncompromising, intimidating and had a wild multi-coloured bush-ranger beard which I am sure kept all potential suitors very nervous.  This man worked extremely hard to keep food on the table and support his family, often having to work away from home.  However, even…