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2 days, 750 miles, and one big hole in the ground.

So last weekend I took off on Saturday morning, rode ~300 miles to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, camped overnight, and rode back while trying to stay off of any major highway I could find. Not much of a story to tell, but some incredibly beautiful (but hot!) riding through southwestern Colorado.

Jones’ing for a long trip again

So, we’ve been watching Long Way Down (thank you, Internets). Being able to watch the original BBC broadcast is interesting - they’ll censor out “bollocks” but dropping an f-bomb left or right doesn’t seem to faze the censors… It’ll be fun to compare with the American broadcast coming up in a couple of months.
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A long time coming: Long Way Down!!!

Spotted on Fox’s Reality TV (I’ll admit - I’m a little addicted to The Academy): interstitial commercials are showing very brief shots of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman starring in Long Way Down. In case you haven’t heard what that series is, it’s the followup documentary to Long Way Round - a television miniseries that […]

Pictures up from the great Southwest Road Trip of 2008

Just to be clear about how this strip started - it was supposed to be an overnight trip from Erie, CO to Raton, NM to camp overnight in Sugarite Canyon State Park. I just wanted to start understanding what camping on a bike would entail, just to cut my teeth on a short trip.
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