Ain't No Pillion

On the Boston to Ushuaia trip, we used the REI Quarter Dome T3 tent. Conventional motorcycle camping wisdom is that you need a tent at least one person bigger in order to fit you and your gear, so we went with a 3-person tent. It was just about perfect for us and our gear, and [...]

I don’t think I’ve formally announced it here yet, but Kay and I have bought a Ural sidecar rig for bringing the dogs with us on motorcycle trips! The idea is that we’re planning to do a RTW with the dogs in the sidecar, but first the rig has to get here (it’s currently on [...]

The most common question I get about packing for a long motorcycle trip is a toss up between: “What did you wish you had packed that you didn’t bring?” or “What did you wish you had left behind that was just taking up space?” After reading ride reports and books about motorcycle travel, I often [...]

I’ve worn a lot of pants in the two years since I started riding. I started out in a pair of Rev’It! Ultimate Motorcycle Pants, which had been discontinued and which I got on discount – and ripped out both knees in the pants when I had my first off the first time I took [...]

One of the most common questions we got, before and after – and even during – our trip, was “Aren’t you worried about your safety?” And people didn’t mean ATGATT – people meant our safety from the people in the countries we were passing through. People seemed most shocked that we were traveling through Mexico, [...]