After getting the apartment here in Portland, I’ve been spending the last week wrapping up the insurance claim on the bike, running errands, getting to know the area, and following the RED SOX. Up 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs, I’ve been ecstatic to have my satellite radio work everywhere downtown. […]

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Apologies for the lack of blog updating. We arrived in Portland about a week ago and were very excited for Missy and Jason’s wedding. That happened over the weekend and could not have been a better time. The night we arrived in Portland […]

I mentioned to Caitlin that I feel like, with unlimited funds, I could do this for quite a bit longer. All our basic needs are met, as well as some basic comforts. Limitations are there… but don’t seem to get in the way. Brendan and I have talked about, with the exception […]

The night that Brendan and I found ourselves in a motel, recovering from Brendan’s near death…I was trolling around on the internet and saw a message from an old college friend on Facebook. It was Kristin Schirmuhly and she was living in Denver. When Brendan and I had left Joey and Alices’s in […]

After a few days of breakdowns, amazing drives, and torrential rain at ridiculous altitudes we found a small town north of Whistler called Pemberton. Our goal upon finding Pemberton was to find out if they had pizza, get some, make camp. We walked into DiCarlo’s Italian Restaurant and found Liz and Romeo. […]

When this whole thing started, it was hard to imagine what three months on the road would be like. I had images of being completely walled off from society, images of meeting new people in every town, and the wonder of when I would really start to miss friends and loved ones. So […]

Every biker we talked to on our way into Sturgis from the Badlands told us that we’d be finding one of two things. The kindest and most warm-hearted people, or the craziest party we could imagine. Now, Brendan and I are all about having some crazy experiences on this trip, and getting to […]

I’m sad to say that most of the scientific material in this book of excerpts from Einstein’s publications and speeches, material aimed at a general audience, went right over my head. Much more interesting were the discussions of such topics as religion and science, international peace, nuclear war, and Germany, Israel, and the Jewish people. […]

Just left Tristan’s place at Jackson Wyoming, so I thought it would be a good time to discuss a book he gave me which I read on the trip- A Confederacy of Dunces. It was hilarious. It was touching in a weird way. The strongest thought I had after putting the book down was that […]

My mom and dad don’t come from big families and while we saw my mom’s brother’s family a few times a year, it never seemed to match the scale that I saw in other families in our neighborhood. The Breens were the most notable in my mind. They had tons of aunts, uncles, […]

The Badlands were incredible. To drive through on a motorcycle, with no steel cage around you, was truly impressive. Here are some pictures and videos. If you’d like, check out the Flickr Set for this day as it was just amazing.

This is Scott adventuring out into the rocks. Scott had been telling me that the […]

Reading this put a fascinating look on all the things that I learned in Mr. McPartlin’s American History class. This book takes you on a trip through American Political History focusing on political paradigms instead of each change of power. When looked at this way, the shifts in power and policy seem […]