Ain't No Pillion

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 get a lot of people asking me about how to plan for a long motorcycle trip, so it’s time this made it into the Monday Q&A rotation. The truth is that there’s no “right” and “wrong” way to do *anything* related to motorcycle travel. It’s all up to the individual’s travel style, finances and [...]

We’ve been ruminating on our next big trip, and I’m getting excited about the idea because it looks like we’ve got a few of the major details decided. When we got home from this trip, Kay’s dog was “broken.” Some negative interaction he’d had with the dogsitters had turned him into a biter – and [...]

It occurs to me that I haven’t actually mentioned our official trip website yet. Silly me. If you want to follow along on our overland trip from Boston, MA to Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego, you can do it at our website: http://www.CorporateRunaways.com . (It’s not case sensitive – just easier to read that way.) We’ve [...]

With the recent funding coming through for the trip, we’ve been ordering a LOT of things for the bikes and ourselves to get fully outfitted for being on the road. I’ve spent much of today combing around for other things to buy and caught myself in this uncharacteristic consumer attitude. I started thinking about things [...]