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Riding Vermont Historic Route 7A

Many of Vermont’s roads were built a couple of centuries ago when oxen pulled wagons. Now merely covered by asphalt, these narrow serpentine roads...

Riding Pennsylvania’s Northeast Corner

When I want to enjoy a fantastic ride, I look for a place with a diversity of sights, great roads, and the opportunity to...

Riding Maine’s Rugged, Winding Coast

Measured in a straight line, the entire coast of Maine from Kittery to Lubec isn’t even 230 miles long. Visit the Maine coast, however,...

Motorcycle Touring in West Virginia (and a Bit of Virginia)

There’s an old joke about the Mountain State that goes something like this: “If you could flatten out West Virginia, it would be as...

Great Motorcycle Riding in Southeastern Ohio

Each day in Jackson, Ohio, I ride State Route 93, which shares its title with Main Street until it pops out on the other...

Motorcycle Riding Through Scenic Eastern New York

I glanced down at the clock on my GPS and saw the time change from 6:59 to 7:00 a.m. I looked back up and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Motorcycle Travel in the Appalachians

“I think I’m lost.” Twenty miles had passed since departing the only hotel in Cumberland, Kentucky, that had a sign hanging in a broken window...

The Blue Ridge Parkway from the Backseat

Plenty of riders have sung the praises of the Blue Ridge Parkway. But I’m here to give you the straight story from the passenger’s...

Reservoir Roads: Exploring the New York Southern Highlands

When I go on an extended motorcycle tour, I like to ride back roads with plenty of twisties to challenge me, in an area...

Catskills Escape: Curves and Coolness in New York's Reservoir Valleys

Say “New York” and people think of Manhattan with its skyscrapers. But most of New York State is rural, with excellent motorcycle roads throughout....
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