The Mayor of Sturgis sponsors an escorted motorcycle “ride” each year at the Sturgis Rally. Holly and I decided to pay the $150 registration fee and follow along. It turned out to be an adventure in riding especially since the police had every single intersection blocked off for our benefit for the entire duration of […]

Holly and I rode our Honda ST1300 to the 2010 Sturgis motorcycle rally. We had visited Sturgis South Dakota in 2008 but this year was epic as they estimated over 500,000 motorcycles were going to show up along with over 830,000 riders and passengers.

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Holly’s best friend’s daughter got married this weeked and we had the luck to be home to attend. I will write more later but I can safely say Holly and I enjoyed the entire event.

Laura and Sean's Summer Wedding

We were looking for an excuse to take a weekend motorcycle ride down to the States so I searched for an airshow we could attend. As it turns out there was one happening in Duluth and it looked inviting. We decided to take two days to get there and two days back making it a […]

UNESCO proclaimed the Sintra Hills near Lisbon Portugal, where the 9th Century Moorish Castle, the 19th Century Palace of Pena and the Park of Pena are located, as the first Cultural Landscape World Heritage site listed in Europe. The Moorish Castle was built in and around the 9th century and was taken over when the […]

Portugal is one of those European countries that have been crisscrossed by marauding tribes, armies, nations and crusaders since the beginning of civilization. A short list would comprise of the Celtics, Germanics, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Suebics, Visigoths, Moorish, Norwegians, Spanish and of course Napoleon and his French armies. Lisbon, or Lisboa, was the center […]

It’s not often I get invited to an almost but not quite royal wedding. When I arrived in my black SUV at the entrance to the Camelot inspired event tent the traditional Yoruba band struck up a lively beat on their wooden drums. Then as I stepped out into the sunshine the lovely young girls […]

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 2010 CHC Safety and Quality Summit. I think this was the biggest event ever and the most well attended. I certainly enjoyed this years presentations as safety management finally seems to be getting better understood.
After the official summit had come to an end, Holly and I […]

A Viking Winter Tale
I now know why the Vikings spent thousands of years trying to get out of Denmark. The winter landscape is bleak and unrelenting. I searched the horizon for some relief but was only rewarded with wind bent leafless trees and stark white technologically marvelous but character bereft wind mills. The oxidized […]

I had a day off in London and took the opportunity to wander around. The day was crisp and cool with a clear sky. I started at the Wellington Arch right acress from the Intercontinental Hotel where I was staying . I paid the 4.50 shillings and climbed to the top of the arch where […]