The Episodic blog
Below are a few pictures from this past Memorial Day weekend. I've been really running around the past month on my bikes. This weekend, I rode my Vulcan 455 miles on a camping trip to the Adirondacks, circumnavigating much of the park, on a route I first made 19 years ago on my touring bicycle. It was exhilerating too be doing the same trip, enjoying the same places as then but doing it at a quicker pace.
On Saturday night I camped at the Adirondack Mountain Club's Loj campground after making a surprise visit to our north county facility. This, too, was part of my itinerary 19 years ago on the bicycle - and the trip during which I became a member of ADK. The rest, as they say, is history.
This week I am trading in my beloved BMW motorcycle for a newer - and more backroad-worthy - enduro touring bike, a 2001 BMW R1150GS. A picture is below.
Oh, almost forgot about my health. I'm on a steady path to recovery. I'm diligent about taking all my medications and having a monthly "oil change" (plasmapheresis). My voice and swallowing are still very much affected but everything else works at 95 percent of normal. Not bad considering where I was 5 months ago, unable to walk 100 feet! Today I even mowed my lawn, a task I was psychologically terrified to do. But I was indeed ready and up to the chore and the lawn looks great.
That's it for now. Enjoy the pictures below.
Below are a few pictures from this past Memorial Day weekend. I've been really running around the past month on my bikes. This weekend, I rode my Vulcan 455 miles on a camping trip to the Adirondacks, circumnavigating much of the park, on a route I first made 19 years ago on my touring bicycle. It was exhilerating too be doing the same trip, enjoying the same places as then but doing it at a quicker pace.
On Saturday night I camped at the Adirondack Mountain Club's Loj campground after making a surprise visit to our north county facility. This, too, was part of my itinerary 19 years ago on the bicycle - and the trip during which I became a member of ADK. The rest, as they say, is history.
This week I am trading in my beloved BMW motorcycle for a newer - and more backroad-worthy - enduro touring bike, a 2001 BMW R1150GS. A picture is below.
Oh, almost forgot about my health. I'm on a steady path to recovery. I'm diligent about taking all my medications and having a monthly "oil change" (plasmapheresis). My voice and swallowing are still very much affected but everything else works at 95 percent of normal. Not bad considering where I was 5 months ago, unable to walk 100 feet! Today I even mowed my lawn, a task I was psychologically terrified to do. But I was indeed ready and up to the chore and the lawn looks great.
That's it for now. Enjoy the pictures below.
Adirondak Loj, Great Room, Beautiful Refinished Floor!!!Lake Placid, New York
Restored "Haunted House" - Rt. 125, Middlebury, Vermont
My New BMW - 2001 R1150GS - Replacing "Pegasus, below"
Tupper Lake - Adirondack Park, New YorkThis is a redux of a scene I took 19 years ago on my first bicycle tour of the park
"Pegasus" - 1996 R1100RT - swapped for GS, above
Mother and Daughter from Montreal, on tour of Adirondacks
Home for a night at Adirondak Loj campground
