In June of 2024, I took off an a 6-week, 6,500ish mile ride from Badlands National Park, South Dakota to the Arctic Ocean in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. To maximize my riding time in The Rockies, Arctic Canada, and Alaska, I started the journey by road tripping from Connecticut to South Dakota with Tori (my […]
With only a few weeks left before the big Arctic Ocean trip, I wanted to do one last weekend of riding to shake down the bike and my gear. I also a half-worn set of tires, fairly fresh oil, and front brake pads I didn’t love that I wanted to burn through before my last
NEBDR 3-4 Yet Again Read More »
From MA to the Canadian border on my adventurized DRZ400
NEBDR Sections 3-8 Read More »
In the Spring of ’23, Tori and I took a two week trip to the UK. We spent 5 days in London so Tori could show me the sights from her grad school days at University College, had a brief stay in Sandwich to continue our quest of visiting every town named Sandwich, then spent
England & Scotland Read More »
After burning out the DRZ’s clutch earlier in the summer, I decided that I needed to redeem myself with at least a short off-road trip. I replaced the DRZ’s clutch pack with a heavy duty set from EBC, changed the oil, and repacked my bags. Since I had used a decent chunk of vacation time
NEBDR Sections 3-4 Read More »
My misadventure on the NE and MABDRs
Mid-Atlantic BDR (kind of) Read More »
After spending the winter planning and gear shopping for a two-week trip on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Backcountry Discovery Routes, I wanted to start the spring with a shakedown run to make sure I had everything sorted for my planned load out. Mostly I wanted to make sure I had the chance to test the
This was a short overnight trip I took on the DR-Z I took to test out a new hammock camping set-up and the Acerbis 4-gallon tank I’d just installed. I’d always been super hesitant to take solo off-road trips prior to this for fear of getting stuck in the woods by myself, so this was
In August of ’21, Tori and I took her mother, Dorothy, on a day trip to Block Island, RI. After an early morning drive to New London, we set off on a windy ferry ride to the island. Tori and I had only been dating for a few months at this point, so this trip
In June 2019, Dylan and I joined Ryan and Leanne in New Hampshire to ride in NETRA’s New England Classic rally. Since the last misadventure, I had picked up my DRZ-400S and Dylan was on a new-to-him DR650. Ryan was still on his KTM 1090, but Leanne had also downsized from her KLR to an
New England Classic 2019 Read More »