I hate motorcycles. Not the seething kind of hate but hate nonetheless. They make too much noise. I especially hate Harleys. They make more noise and supposedly people like it that way. The louder the... Read more >>

Americans are learning quickly what took Europeans decades to learn—how to cope with high gas prices. Automakers aren’t reacting quickly enough, so many of us are left to fend for... Read more >>

This story contains mature or graphic content. The following is something that happened to me and I wish it would again. It was an incredible feeling. It was a warm spring day and I left the... Read more >>

So since I was about, oh, I don’t know, nine, I’ve had a horrible phobia of all things having to do with death. The whole idea of death scares the crap out of me. Dead bodies, fake or... Read more >>

Nothing really matters when you’re straddling a motorcycle while it speeds down a traffic-laden four-lane freeway in South America ... (that actually has five, no, six cars across ... not... Read more >>

The spring and summer of 1980 are particularly memorable to me. I was just fourteen years old, but had a brand new motorcycle my father had purchased for me over Christmas. It was a beauty! It... Read more >>

At the age of fifty-five, I have spent almost half of my life with Rheumatoid Arthritis or RA. It’s an auto-immune disease that basically causes the body to attack itself. As a result, people... Read more >>

In Washington we have our own private archipelago, a scattering of 450 islands that lay like jewels in the water between Washington and Canada. The San Juan Islands always surprise me when I see them... Read more >>

It was one in the morning. I’d been up all night bidding on an eBay item, watching the minutes tick off to the end, and then it simply disappeared from auction. My last bid ended at $16,550, but... Read more >>

Is it just me or is anyone else noticing more women on motorcycles lately? I don’t mean riding as passengers but being the sole motorcycle rider. It could be me noticing this... Read more >>