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Getting Our Kicks

Exploring Route 66 across the American heartland. The heat was killer. Even as the sun sank behind a treed horizon, the thick air clung like a wet quilt. Wilting and spent, the three riders circled...

It’s a Loaded Question

How much weight can your motorcycle handle Whether you’re off to local events or heading across the country for a huge rally, we all know how good it feels to put our faces into the breeze and hit...

Buzzing Around Lisbon

Portuguese culture on a variety of electric scooters. It was a weird riding sensation: listening to the locals talk, hearing the pebbles of the road underneath the tires — but nothing from the...

Land of Covered Bridges and Rugged Coastlines

Detours, gravel roads and ATV trails are sure to add a bit of excitement to an already great ride. With limited time and the constraints of the pandemic lingering, we decided to stay north of the...

The Dalton

Challenging one of America’s most dangerous roads. The first time I had heard of it, I was a new rider on a mission to pilot my little cruiser end-to-end on the Trans Canada Highway. En route,...

Exploring the Subtropics of the Iberian Peninsula

Several centuries and a variety of cultures blend into one in modern Portugal. There’s a moment that many people experience in life: the realization that you have nothing to compare your current...

Epic Roads that Stir the Soul

Here I am once again thinking about how fortunate we are to be able to escape the winter in Cape Breton, NS, and feel the warm rays of a southern sun as we experience the freedom of riding a...

Adventures on the Alcan

Meeting people and experiencing places along the Alaska Highway. Caution: Caribou Migration in Progress. It was a road sign I had never seen before, so I was on high alert. I counted six white-tailed...

More than America’s Dairyland

Experiencing some of what Wisconsin has to offer the roaming traveller. Full throttle! Hard brake! Full throttle! Interstate 94 around the southern shore of Lake Michigan alternated every 90 seconds...

The Whale Route

Discovery on Quebec’s North Coast. What are the chances we’ll actually see a whale” whispered Collin as we pulled on bright orange rain gear and climbed aboard a 20-seat zodiac. From...

Away with the Ferries

Every ride needs a plan, and this one involved as many water crossings as possible. Benjamin Franklin summed it up: Three may keep a secret, he said, if two of them are dead. With confidentiality...

Exploring the Eastern Townships

No need to fear a language barrier in this triangle-shaped piece of colourful paradise. I’m not proud of this: My sixth-grade classmates and I thought we had really accomplished something when our...