Riding Day: Vyshny Volochek – Moscow (300km). Feature Image: Phil in front of the St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square. We did get a special tour the cathedral, nothing really special, but this image is the face of Moscow. Red Square is equally unimpressive, not at all the same as China’s Tiananmen Square which is […]
Feature Image: Old lady selling apples off the side of the road. I gave her some change for an apple — she stares at the coins in her hands and tries later to give it back to me. Her husband came running over to see the commotion and he becomes the star of the story
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Feature image is of large group of riders, two guides, one girlfriend who going back to Germany today and a corporate manger going back to Germany tomorrow. Complicated, but the seeds of the group that will be traveling for the next two and one half months, ending at the top of October, 2019. Without any
I know what you’re going to say, can’t you think of a better headline for the post, like really, hurry up and wait, how lame? I have to say, in this case, it’s true, it’s now August 15th, and I’m hanging around waiting to get going on my next leg of travel with a new
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Feature Image is shocking and I’m sorry for that, but it fits the days touring I did at Auschwitz and Birkenau camp near Krakow, Poland. I’m going to load up this post with images that I took at the camps — does not relate to the text — but I want to get these exposed:
I won’t go into it now, but I have such fond memories of my last tour to South America with my 6 German buddies. They all were so fantastic. I honestly thought they were all top notch people and I would not give up that experience and friendships for anything. To that end, back in
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Anyone who knows me, knows that beer is really close to the last beverage that I would reach for if I were on a desert island, thirsty for some wet happiness. Its not that I hate beer — and its not that I have anything agains beer — and its not that I judge anyone
Feature image of this Porsche Carrera 550 Spyder – race warn in the Mexican competition, Carrera Panamericana where it took first place in its category back in the 1950’s. Its been an action filled couple of days since checking out of my hotel Heidelberg, Germany. I’ve been to the world headquarters for Porsche and then
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Feature image is of a wall of retail bags with probably 50 or more individual types of Haribo gummies in cherished rows and rows of these delights. I’m here to try and answer the age old question; what is better, Haribo Gummy Candy or the German Autobahn? Some of you may think, who cares? Well,
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Feature image is of the inside of a Eurotunnel rail car which carries people and cars in a bare bones 35 minute ride across the English Channel — from England to France. George is resting comfortably during the rail ride. Ever since I landed in London with Paula, it’s been really down time to hang
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Phil’s friend George. It’s been bothering me, and I just had to deal with it. The need to give an inanimate object a human name to give it life — its that simple. I’ve been referring to my 2019 BMW Motorrad F850GS Adventure as my “bike” or as the “motorcycle”, most recent as the “Iron
It’s now time to move on to the second of three continents; Europe. I now on a British Airways flight to London and it’s really a gnarly feeling that my plan is super loose until I get to Estonia, at the Russian border. More about that later. I finished my first ride from the USA
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Featured Image is of my backup iPhone’s back case — including custom logo for Iron Monkey Butt World Tour. I generally think about my sleeping comfort requirements as goldilocks — not too cold and not too hot — say 72 degrees is fine. Well this morning I woke up in my hotel room in Lexington,
Feature Image is of the first minute after leaving my garage at early dusk — It seemed like a Kodak moment, a picture of my bike, a bright yellow light and my home in the backdrop — to start this new adventure which will take me from Boca Raton to Toronto — Flight for me,
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It happened so fast. The abrupt end of the Ramshorn Porsche Rally opened up the new chapter of this epic ride — Paula was flying in to Bozeman to go for a 5 day trek at Yellowstone National Park. My Porsche was packed and shipped in the late afternoon of the last day of the
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Feature image is of my purpose bought for rallies, concourse restored, 1971 Porsche 911S — the fastest production engine for Porsche in that era. My bud, Igal and I went out one day while driving on the Ramshorn Rally to take some pictures of the car. Igal is the best possible partner to do
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I’m going to work backwards on this post and save the reason for coming to the biggest, baddest and hippest Porsche event in the world, Luftgekuhlt in Los Angeles — this year at the Universal Back Lots as its artful setting. No, I’m not going to talk about that first. I really want to talk
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Ok, let’s deal with the elephant in the room first. How strange is it that a 57 year old man gets the notion that he must visit the biggest pistachio made of concrete somewhere in New Mexico? No, before you answer that, let me change the question a bit first. How strange is it that
Feature Image is of the a very early old sign outside the MidPoint Cafe — replaced by this sign below: Today was very active and fun, full of varied experiences and that’s the way I like it. I left my hotel — the infamous Fairfield by Marriott Amarillo heading towards the Iconic Cadillac Ranch made
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Running away from the rain is not a bikers favorite activity. While it’s been a fun couple of days — its also been a pain in the ass trying not to get wet while riding to my next destinations. The good news is that I only got a few sprinkles on me in the past
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Feature image is of a winning BMW motorcycle from the historic Paris Dakar Rally — preserved at the Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum. Man, it should have been a 10 today. I had planned to go through Birmingham, Alabama for a reason. Trust me, if I had not had a reason, Birmingham would be one of
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It’s not easy to write this blog and get motivated when I’ve done similar motorcycle rides over the years. Sure, this time, it’s different, the entire route will take me through 19 different States and is a wee bit longer which is exciting, but sharing my interests, micro and major thoughts along the ride takes
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Feature image is of a simple stone inscribed with the words; “Everest Base Camp 2019”. Shockingly, there is not grand sign set up at Base Camp explaining anything. The reason is because the camp sits on a glacier and each year, the location shifts so a permanent sign would move over time. Anyway, no matter,
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Feature Image is one of the literally dozens of massively hight mountain peaks — largest in the world. Prickass is constantly pointing out mountains and their heights — but it goes over my head — the names are so confusing. Take the largest mountain in North America, Denali in Alaska and that is the ante
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Feature Image is of some donkeys carrying up gas cylinders of kerosene — super heavy stuff. Just one of the different means to transport goods up into the mountain world of the Himalayas. The others? Mostly Yak and Human beast of burden. Today we are ending our day in Pangbuche, a town of 106 families