Adventure!

Aviation. Motorcycles. Mountain climbing. All these activities and more can be a vehicle for adventure.

I have always looked for adventure....

When I was four years old, I climbed up on top of the big commercial greenhouses next door (and got stuck). When I was ten, I rode my 10-speed into downtown Portland, a distance of over thirty miles one way. When I was thirteen, I took a bus to San Francisco and got lost for the day. When I was eighteen, I hitched from Portland to the Bay Area and back. I've walked the spine of the Cascades the length of Oregon. I am a licensed pilot, although I have never seen fit to jump out of one.

Well, I'm forty three right now and I am still looking for adventure. I suppose that the day I stop yearning to see what is over the next hill will be the day I die, or at least the day I begin to die.

These days, most of my adventuring is done on motorcycles. Specifically, dual-sport (or what used to be called enduro) motorcycles. Bikes that are capable of travel on highways or off road. On a bike like this, I can ride on the highway to my destination and take off on trails into and over the mountains.....and around here, I can go for days and days in the mountains if I want to.