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New England: Revisiting Old Haunts, And Some New, In The Six States

The sun was shining, the day was warm, and traffic minimal. It was like old times, traveling along Route 66 (Massachusetts, not U.S.) into...

Climbing the Pikes Peak Highway

The year was 1806. After traversing the flat plains of what is now eastern Colorado, Zebulon Pike saw a smudge on the horizon. The...

Lucky Stars and Fall Colors: Rider Blog

Sometimes good things just happen. It could be the alignment of the stars and the moon, it could be just blind luck or it...

Palouse Wheatland Treasures: Motorcycle Ride Through Washington

Fall…not my favorite verb, but definitely my favorite time of year for riding at the latitude where I live. Those of us who choose...

Pigeon River Country: Sport Touring in Michigan

Michigan riders looking for sporting back roads with minimal traffic and serious curves in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula need only follow...

Adventure on the Alcan: From Dawson Creek to Delta Junction and Beyond

I had been riding on a level plateau for a couple of days, a place where endless fields of wheat merge with the sky...

Crystal River Riding Reboot—Motorcycle Riding in Florida

Last summer I relocated from Southern California to Central Florida, primarily to pursue a job opportunity, but in the back of my rider’s mind...

Moto Guzzi’s California 1400 Touring in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

Back roads make me happy. Two lanes, little traffic, preferably with lots of curves and undulations, rather like the better parts of California Routes...

Nevada’s Loneliest Road…and it isn’t U.S. 50

U.S. Highway 50 across the breadth of Nevada is billed as the state’s loneliest road. Having traversed U.S. 50 numerous times, I have to...

Coal, Country and Curves | Eastern Kentucky Motorcycle Tour

At a certain time of year, the bite in the night air has me working phrases such as “last chance” and “end of the...

Great Roads: Oklahoma

Upon entering Oklahoma, a decorative granite sign demarcates the state line, followed soon by a billboard depicting a Buffalo Bill character, waving his Stetson,...

Sidehacking into History

Many motorcyclists consider freeway speed limits to be a barrier. On a Ural, they’re more like an accomplishment. But the thrill one feels at...

Ohio River Valley: On the Trail of Simon Kenton

Simon Kenton is one of America’s least-known heroes. Kenton and Daniel Boone were contemporaries in the beautiful but deadly wilderness of the Ohio River...

The Olympic Peninsula: Travel in Northwest Washington

Story and photos by Phil Buonpastore When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is look out the window. It’s a...

Cruising Yankee Country: A Northeastern Four-State Getaway

If your goal is to ride Yankee Country with its rural roads, quaint colonial villages and charming churches, there’s no place better than western...

Great Roads: Motorcycle Riding in Missouri

The crack of the bat and the smell of yeast are never far away in St. Louis, a vibrant city—kingdom of baseball and beer....

Twisted Sisters: The Texas Hill Country’s Most Famous Trio

Three Hill Country Ranch Roads, 335, 336 and 337, are known throughout Texas as the Twisted Sisters, and riders come from near and far...

Hunting Waterfalls in Oregon

Oregon’s Cascade Mountains were created by volcanic fire and falling water. Today the fire is gone, but the volcanic formations and falling water remain,...

Motorcycle Riding Along the Natchez Trace Parkway

Click here to see and download the Natchez Trace Parkway route on REVER Rod Serling’s words ran through my mind as I turned off Highway...

Great Roads: Motorcycle Riding in Montana

Yellowstone National Park, on the south end of Montana, is a veritable three-ring safari and special-effects razzle-dazzle where, no matter what you’re taking in,...

Iowa’s Unique Scenic Byway

What landform is found only in a small part of Iowa and in China? If you answered, “Huh?” you need to ride the Loess...

Western Massachusetts BONE Ride

I’m a western Massachusetts native who’s been called Bones since childhood, so when I learned about an upcoming “Western Mass BONE Ride,” naturally, I...

4 Corners 4 Kids: Traveling to the Four Corners of the U.S. For Charity

I have made some road trips in my nine years of riding, but I’ve never managed to stay gone long enough to want the...

Motorcycle Tour of Connecticut: A Taste of Nutmeg

Connecticut is a compact state, some 60 miles wide by 100 miles across. When I studied a map of this coastal New England state,...

Short Motorcycle Ride through West Virginia and Maryland

Done. Finally! The lawn is mowed, trimming completed, garage swept, and I even got the car washed. The Honey-Do List completed, I venture inside...

Wild Texas: A Winter Ride to Big Bend

When winter drifts into North Texas, those of us who ride year-round seek more agreeable climates, yet never have to leave the state. Big...

Great Roads: South Dakota

The following is an excerpt from the article Connecting the Dakotas: The Long Way Around North and South, originally printed in the August 2009...

High Sierra Adventure Weekend

“I want to come back here after the thaw.” Thus I remarked to my brother as we stared at the expanse of snow spreading out...

Great Roads: North Carolina

The following is an excerpt from the article Of Ribs and Roads: Barbecue and Byways in the Carolina Mountains printed in the June 2004...

Riding to Daytona: A Woman’s Solo Journey from Ohio to Florida

Deep in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, I pulled my 2011 Harley-Davidson SuperLow 883 Sportster over to the edge of a back road. I took off...

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