Danelle spends a lot of time volunteering with the Missouri Stream Team. She started with them in college doing water quality monitoring. Now she helps with a variety of things, including planning and attending river clean-ups, doing water monitoring with River des Peres Watershed Coalition during Bike With Your Boots On, and being on the … Continue reading “START Mentor Hike – 4/18/2018”
Spring is here, and we needed to get out of the house. I had a few checks to take to the bank, so I brought the whole family along. Its a little over a mile walk to the bank. The kids were not completely into the walk, but I found ways to entertain them. And … Continue reading “Walking To The Bank – 4/17/2018”
I was invited to my goddaughter’s first communion. I would have brought family along with me, but the mass was at 7:30 am and I had stuff to do late the day before. So I left at 5am Sunday morning to drive to Jeff City. I don’t think they expected me to show up, but … Continue reading “Pheona’s First Communion – 4/15/2018”
April can bring any type of weather and today was actually fantastic. Some of us are barefoot in shorts and t-shirt! Hogan Haake
I was riding one of my favorite unicycle tracks from my house getting some exercise and enjoying the weather. I heard somebody yelling at me (which is normal) but it was persistent. I looked over to see a young man running on the other side of a major street carrying a unicycle. I stopped and … Continue reading “Meeting Austin – 4/5/2018”
I needed to get out of the house and Danelle needed some peace and quiet for her school work. So I packed up the kids and drove to Castlewood State Park. There, I wanted to hike a trail that overlooks the Meramec river. We did hike it for a short time, but the kids and … Continue reading “Cold Day at Castlewood – 4/1/2018”
My new V-Strom is awesome, but like all motorcycles, it needs to be customized to be mine! So I got engine guards, a skid plate, and highway pegs from Happy-Trail. These may not sound that special to you, but they each have a valid use. With the family still on spring break, I was able … Continue reading “Motorcycle Parts – 3/21/2018”
The Port of St. Louis is the third most busy inland port in the United States. I’ve seen it from land many times and paddled to the northern end of it, but never farther south than the Gateway Arch. That was about to change today. Its still spring break and the wife and kids are … Continue reading “Paddling the Port of St. Louis – 3/18/2018”
I’ve been reading about adventure riding and hoping to get this type of bike for a while now. One of the rides I read about was the Missouri Swinging Bridges ride. Its an annual ride through back roads in Missouri and goes over very old swinging bridges. I had downloaded the tracks and been over … Continue reading “First Adventure Ride – 3/17/2018”
After 10 years and approximately 13,000 miles, I wanted something different. I was trading in my Kawasaki Concours for a different motorcycle.Over the years, I had spent far more in repair cost than the cost of the bike and I was starting to loose confidence in the bike. There were many little things that were … Continue reading “2017 Suzuki V-Strom 650”