Category: Canada

I have been called strong


I miss my bike.  I really do.  I can’t ride my F8 or any bike for that matter.

fullsizeoutput_1004

This was my last and almost first real ride since I busted my tibia.  About a month ago I went out and it was like a breath of fresh air.  My last 2 years have been challenging to say the least.  Someone sent me message about how “strong” I have been throughout these years.

Multi-Ethnic Group Of Diverse People Holding Letters That Form D

My diabetes has gone from Type II to what some call Type 1.5.  Sugars out of control, complicated now by thyroid issues.  I am weak, I tremor, I am exhausted all the time and I can’t ride nor work all my on call shifts.

2015-06-11-1433982482-6675166-thyroiddisease

The only good thing with an over active thyroid is loosing weight.  So, since I have moved back to the USA from Canada I have gotten into a motorcycle accident, broke my tibia, was out of commission for 7 months, my diabetes has progressed to the point I may need an insulin pump and now my thyroid is out of control.  All of my issues can be treated.  Good news eh?

Treated with drugs.  More drugs and always paying attention to my body.  Sounds easy…to me it’s annoying.  Am I strong?  I feel overwhelmed and week again.  I just want to catch a break, no, not literally.

I have the most incredible partner who inherited  a partner who continuously gets sicker and sicker.  sick2

I read all those great FB pages and see so many out riding old and new bikes.  Having the adventures of their lives or just riding for the enjoyment.

fullsizeoutput_1009

I am happy riding…yet I feel for now this is another loss.  Anyone who rides understands what two wheels feels like.

IMG_6049

I dream about the 1200 I trashed, I dream about being healthy.  Not pitying myself, I just want normalcy.  Every time I look around a corner there seems to be a surprise not in a good way.  I am sick.  I look well but I am ill.  I am trying to look forward but I always seem to think about BC, Canada.

Our new President was elected.  Perhaps I am sick over that too?  cropped-voting-fraud2

I guess now everyone knows who I voted for and why I think about canada-cool

I will end this by promising myself to get the medical help I need and comply.  Now, I also have to figure out a way to do my job.  24 hr shifts between 14-18 times a month.  In the  mean while I will try to be a good partner and will dream about my present bikefullsizeoutput_100a

and the new bikes coming out.  😉

5693dd10c3724

2013 BMW F800GS for SALE! $10,800 Canadians Please read entire POST.


$10,800 – I am selling my F800 to get a 1200GS…I have a passenger periodically and it’s time to get a USA bike.  My bike has been MANY places and hope the new owner carries on the tradition.  Needs to go back to Canada.

LI Ferry Continue reading “2013 BMW F800GS for SALE! $10,800 Canadians Please read entire POST.”

2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Days 23 & 24


It’s that time to get to Long Island….😊  I am in Pennsylvania right now and will be heading out soon to finish this incredible X Country trip in my very fun Fiat 500L.

Fiat

Love this car, it did well on this trip and it really reminds me of my F800GS on 4 wheels.

Canada back to the USA.

Canada-2-USA Continue reading “2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Days 23 & 24”

2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 16


May 7 2015

Forecast

I drove across the plains of Iowa pretty straight through as my goal for this day was Springfield, MO.  It’s storm season around here and when I hit Kansas City, Kansas I got a taste of a wicked thunder, lightening and pouring rain storm cell.  I was on the main highway and the pools of water were deep.  My car was hit a few times with a “tsunami” like waves. Continue reading “2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 16”

2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 9 (My head)


April 30th 2015 (all pics in any of my posts can be clicked for HI REZ versions)

I feel like I am living the 2002 philosophical travel memoir by Neil Peart, Ghost Rider.  I get why he kept going out for his rides.

Best route for a car or bike
Best route for a car or bike

Everyday the roads I travel are stunning and beautiful.  Perfect for a bike or car.  However, this day despite what I was seeing my drive felt labored.  I knew at some point on this trip my head would give in to what I have left behind.  As I get closer to taking my Beagles ashes back to his spot in Wyoming, Cruizer’s rock I call it, I seemed to be feeling quite emotional. Today he would have been 11. Continue reading “2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 9 (My head)”

2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 5


April 26th 2015

I ended my day seeing this pair of Great Horn Owls.  Roosting by their nest.  So uninhibited and so beautifully perched.  Such an amazing creature and HUGE.

Continue reading “2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 5”

2015 Long Island or BUST Tour – Day 3 & 4


April 23 & 24 2015

FIAT 500L TREKKING

Should really call this FIAT fun…if I had to choose 4 wheels to drive the roads I have been on it would be this car…making my trip interesting and engaging…almost as good as my bike.  Almost!

What would a car trip be without locking yourself out of the said car?  Day 3 and did it.  Luckily I locked myself out in a parking lot full of fishermen(women).  I was going to have Fiat Roadside come bail me out but a bunch of crafty folks ended up using some fishing line with a hook to snag my keys. They were able to “catch” them and bring them up to the sun roof.  My trusty stick did not work for any of us by itself. Continue reading “2015 Long Island or BUST Tour – Day 3 & 4”

2015 Long Island or Bust Tour – SpotWalla Page


I will just pin this post for now just in case anyone wants to see my track live or not live. 👍

Track my 2015 Long Island or Bust Tour by clicking here

FIAT 500L TREKKING = FUN

Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 2


April 23 2015

Thanks to my friend Wayne I have changed to the title of this trip.  As he pointed out I crossed the border into the USA in about 45 mins after I left BC.  👍 Day 2 was a day that I forgot about why I left BC and that I was moving.  I actually felt like I was on a vacation of sorts and just had fun riding through the Cascades in my car.  Beautiful mountainous roads, ones that a biker would die for really.  One area I wanted to go was blocked by snow but I did get some altitude at this time of year.

Continue reading “Long Island or Bust Tour – Day 2”

USA road Trip 2015 – Day 1


April 22 2015

My TRACK LINK Here to SPOTWalla.

Canada-2-USA

cropped-img_5476.jpg
Day I became a Canadian Citizen

April 22, 2015 – An important day to remember.  The day I left BC for New York after my 18 years of growing up in Canada.  Now, Dual citizen, I am returning  to where it all started.  I mean where I was born.

IMG_5493

Seems like I have done a full circle.  Circle of my life in a way.  My transition to the States won’t be an easy one.  I never had an adult life there.  Left soon after grad school.

Continue reading “USA road Trip 2015 – Day 1”

Dual Citizenship, “WICKED” TATs, House is Empty…time to go


April 18th 2015

So much has been going on since my last post.  Too much it seems because it’s making time fly.  I leave April 22nd.  Leave BC, Canada for New York to start.  I am driving my car and heading to where?  I will have my SPOT on and post a link to my Spotwalla page soon if anyone’s interested.   I know I am not on two wheels….

but I get to drive this fun little car and I am going to go places I have never been on previous X Country trips.

Continue reading “Dual Citizenship, “WICKED” TATs, House is Empty…time to go”

ALMOST THERE……


I received this notice today from the Federal Government of Canada…

Canada-2-USA

We sent you a notice on March 26, 2015 to appear and take the oath of citizenship at the citizenship ceremony to be held on April 13, 2015 at 11:30 AM…perfect timing!  New ADV  continues…packing and garage sale…UGH!

%d bloggers like this: