The idea of undertaking a longer trip, more than just a weekend, had been percolating for some time.  I wondered if I could do it; I wondered if my bike could do it.  Two days of holiday res...

In the previous month, I had already been on sport touring trips to Arizona and Death Valley on my 2000 Triumph Sprint ST, so taking a quick trip up the coast to Morro Bay shouldn't have been a bi...

I like telescopes, particularly the big ones.  The first one I ever was able to get up close to was the observatory complex on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai'i and I was hooked.  I j...

With all the media coverage of the "100 year bloom” at Death Valley, I and Robyn decided that we would be fools to miss out.  The Sprint had performed marvelously despite both fate a...

I hadn’t really been to Germany in a decade.  In fact, since 1991, I had only gone over for a couple of days here and there for funerals and I had never been with Robyn; this was going to...

I've finally switched over from Gallery2 to a more deeply Joomla! integrated product: JoomGallery .  I had a lot of reasons for doing this and quite a few challenges in the migration process...

Before I headed out on my last trip to Yosemite, I knew I was going to want to have some extra luggage along to carry warmer clothing.  It was going to be the middle of April with the possibility...

Obtaining the Pannier Rails (the racks the hard case luggage installs on) for my 2000 Triumph Sprint ST was quite an ordeal.  I purchased the rails and cases on eBay and had them shipped, only to...

I've spent quite a bit of time on the creation of this website.  The first consideration I had was ease of maintenance.  In the past, I've tried to handcode everything from scratch a...