Spoke Junkie

“J.R.A.” we call it, just riding along when it hits you like an explosion out of nowhere.  It hits every joint in your body, you feel it in your teeth, your eyeballs, your sun glasses nearly get ripped off your face! The ride was going so perfectly up to this…

Do you ever do that thing where you are riding up a trail but there is this rocky section, you have been up it at least a dozen times, sometimes you make it through, yeah sick, hero moves!  It often helps to have someone else there, you know, that little…

Transition: passage from one state, place, stage or subject to another : change. (Merriam-Webster dictionary).  It is that time once again, sort of! There are those who would say there wasn’t anything to transition from since winter never got real. Oh yes there was a whole lot more whining going…

It is a perfect blue bird day, four inches of fresh blower powder on the ground, no other cars at the parking area and you are with a couple friends you have always wanted to ski with.  Just awesome, boots on, packs on, dogs excited, climbing skins on, off you…

And just like that…dirt.  The trails are opening more every day.  But wait just a minute, March, in like a lamb out like lion, yeah I know, that is backwards, but so fun!  Then April, can we use the same poetic expression and backwards again for that month too?  And…

I love snow.  I love to play on snow, that means almost anything that slides on snow, well I do draw the line at sleds and saucers, you know, toys for the unskilled.  Mainly because those two seem like the most dangerous way to slide, no brakes and no steering?!?  …

Well I’m not sure what just happened, no I’m not talking politics, something far more important.  The change of seasons!  I feel like I was just at work with the air conditioner struggling to keep the shop uh, not sweltering, while complaining because it was too hot.  Today it may…

Orville and Wilbur Wright, Oh yeah, the inventors of the airplane! Well of course that is what most people think when those names are mentioned.  So, first of all, they didn’t invent the airplane.  What the Wright brothers did was make it possible to “control” a flying machine which made…

It was always shocking to me when those awful green scooters appeared in our town (it’s so nice to go to other parts of the lake and not see them laying all over the paths, walkways and sides of streets like litter!)  then people started crashing on them in large…

I walk in the front door of the store, alright, to be clear, the liquor store, we were nearly out of beer! We are on a camping trip in a different state, yeah one of those states where you go to the grocery store for food but you have to…