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 I'd arranged with work to have Friday off, so I could take my time and leisurely make my way to the Greater New Brunswick Adventure Rally (GNAR) Pebble Beach, Cape Enrage, New BrunswickThe grand plan: PEI to Adair's Wilderness Lodge and ReturnI was going to ride out to Adair's Wilderness Lodge via a fairly straight route until I cleared Moncton, and the there I'd follow the coast

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My father Emerson and his wife Ruth had flown out of Toronto to Newfoundland, and when my sister Wendy-Sue found that there was a stopover in Halifax, she suggested they stay in Nova Soctia for a week before heading back to Orillia Ontario, and hence I received an invitation to visit the new house in Coldbrook Nova Scotia for an overnight visit. Burnt Coat Nova ScotiaAs it is a long way to

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​On the right a Shinko 705 with 10k on it. On the left, a Shinko 705 that has only rolled across my garage floor. The Versys has new shoes. 😀The Versys gets new shoes!I can run faster and jump higher with these on! We decided to purchase the Princess Auto motorcycle tire bead breaker, and the on sale, Dynamic tire balancer based on a review by a friend, so there was a flurry of seasonal

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 Yep, I was going to take two weeks off for vacation this year, but my work decided that I started the year with -5 days, so my two weeks are gone and I'm down to three days paid out of five. Gotta love it. They are going to pay for it in morale, and employee turnover no doubt. But, I'd had some charging problems with my bike that seemed like I just couldn't trust it for longer than to

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 Or three turkeys visit West Point and Cedar Dunes, then blast home for a lovely Thanksgiving feast with the Kelly family. It was Wobbly Cat's last day on PEI and I wanted to do a Monday ride, but we were both slug-a-bed, and it took us an age to get moving, and by the time the gears stopped squeaking and began to turn, it was around noon, and time to invite others to join in on the fun

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 Under Construction

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 And I took only one photo for my very first ride in 2024. But made it home in one piece, and enjoyed the ride. So there is that. 

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 I really wanted to get out and go camping, and for the past couple of years, even though the heart was willing, the bike or circumstances didn't permit, and I'd only just gotten a night of camping in a couple of weeks ago, and I'd made a total shambles of that, being so out of practice that I could barely boil water for tea. My friend WobblyCat from Onterrible was still knocking about,

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 Yesterday we took someone special out for their birthday lunch, so today we thought we would have a picnic somewhere on the island, and of course there was no destination, it was just an excuse for a ride once again. Caroline atSea Cow Head LighthousePrince Edward IslandWe pieced together some food items, I offered up "meat sticks", and she contributed a can of Kirkland tinned chicken

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I'd been a bit lazy, for when my Versys let me down in the fall of last year, no longer charging the battery and leaving me high and dry at Gas's grocery store in New Haven Prince Edward Island, Caroline helped me collect it, and we stuck it into her garage, where it has sat on a battery tender over the winter. There is a real danger of ice todayIt's 1C / 34F today!Brrrrr!I'd pulled into Gas

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 We had planned to do three days of motorcycle fun, but when those plans fell through and we found we had a shot at a single day of riding the motorcycles, we took that toy firmly in our teeth and ran with it... We had a dogsitter!!! East Branch Apple RiverDay TrippingBorden-Carleton PE to Advocate Harbour NS and Return - Drive 351 km, 4 hours, 45 minutes  Borden-Carleton PE to

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 Father's day, but I'm not a father and my Dad is 1700km back west in Onterrible, so I made plans with Caroline to head out to our favourite Island restaurant, The Home Plate in Murray River PE to visit our friend Caroline F. and enjoy a wonderful lunch of the best fish and chips on the Island. Heading north on County Line RoadMurray RiverPrince Edward IslandDay Tripping - Tryon PE to

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Bored yet? We've got another winter storm warning for the weekend on our island home of Prince Edward Island where the bikes are tucked away someplace warm and cozy on their trickle chargers. I'm stocking up on junk food, milk and something to entertain us, like these yo-yos. :DDos HondurosGoldwing Motocross by Dos Honduros.railing berms and Hucking jumps on two 1980 Goldwing GL1100 interstates.&

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 Caroline and I had been out for a day of riding the preceding weekend, stopping and taking the odd picture of the fall foliage, but I thought the colours would be closer to peak this coming Saturday, and as Caroline wanted to stop for lunch at the Home Plate diner in Murray River, I thought this a great excuse to get out for another ride and sample what mother nature had in store for us,

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 Caroline enjoys camping and riding her motorcycle and we've been having fun since 2019 camping and riding together. Last year we stayed at a lovely little campground on the Sunrise Trail in Nova Scotia that sits on a body of water called Linwood Harbour adjacent to McCall's cove near Havre Boucher NS.  We enjoyed the experience so much that she thought to invite her son and his friend

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Caroline on the Cabot TrailTerre NoireCape Breton Island, NS There are many trails in Nova Scotia, and the most famous of these is the well known Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Caroline and I have been on it more than once, so for this short, three day trip, we planned to ride the Fleur-de-lis trail, then the Cabot and lastly the Ceilidh Trail, with a wee bit of the Sunrise

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My sister Wendy-Sue invited Caroline and I out to go tubing last year near Miramichi New Brunswick with Stewarts Tubing, and we had an absolute blast! We talked about going again this year, and it was easy time to decide that we'd love to go...Stewart's TubingDay 1Charlottetown PE to Wilson's Point NBDrive 349 km, 4 hours, 25 minutesCharlottetown PE to Wilson's Point NBSafety first! The ear plugs

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 Our first ride off of the island in 2021, and a complete muddle. The rain on Friday was bad enough that neither Caroline nor I wanted to get started in that miserable stuff, and the forecast for Monday was dismal as well, so we opted to leave on Saturday morning, and planning? One minute it was to mid New Brunswick straight through the Irving Re (de) forestation project on 108, then Meat

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 I bet you are wondering how I found myself here, sitting on the side of the road with a flat rear tire on my '09 Kawasaki Versys 650? It's a little bit funny, it's a little bit sad, let me tell you all about the ride we had. Facebook marketplace is a great way to find used gear at affordable prices, and I'd seen someone advertise some Alpinestars SMX 4 boots for sale that I knew

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 Caroline provided the name for the ride while I supplied the means. She's been having some soreness in her throttle hand, and the KLR is not the best bike to be riding unless the doctor ordered vibration as an effective treatment for it. Nope, so the ride we had half planned for today was cut a bit shorter as she elected to leave her toxic green steed at home in its stall, while I lowered

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 You don't have to weed Lupins, in fact, Lupins are weeds here on Prince Edward Island, and in June they can be found growing where the plows and lawn mowers can't reach them, so our ditches and roadsides become a sea of Lupins for a short period of time, but it's a beautiful time to be a motorcyclist as the weather and the scenery is breathtaking. Lupins at the roadside, Founds Mills

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 If you didn't already know, I'm a bit of a stove nut. No really. Anyhow, this fella was advertising an old Coleman single burner classic on USED PEI, and he was only asking five bucks for it, so I figured it was broken or suspect. Anyhow, I wanted one, so I jumped in with both feet and said I'd buy it, before realizing that he was located not in Charlottetown as I had assumed, but in St.

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You may have heard of the great pandemic back in 2020? I'm here to tell you that it really messed with our travel plans for 2020, but in the end, we still managed to have a lovely ramble about our beloved "Atlantic Bubble".Caroline pulling into Peggy's Cove Nova ScotiaThe revised plan called for a week of riding in Nova Scotia followed by a day off on the island, then we would do some travelling

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We were over at my sister Wendy-Sue's for supper, or that is, making supper, when Alex brought up the idea of tubing down the Miramichi river, as one of her girlfriends had done it this summer, and thought it was a great deal of fun. You jump into a shuttle that takes you up river and drops you off with your tube, and you then float down river back to the tubing site itself. It was just an idea

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The King's BastionFortress Louisbourg Frédéric Gate Fortress Louisbourg Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia Caroline enjoyed our first trip together to Cape Breton Island's Meat Cove along the Cabot Trail so much that she was determined we would visit again the following weekend, but she was in desperate need of a new rear tire for her Honda Shadow, so we shelved the idea until a new Shinko

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