Written by awneitsch on October 29, 2025
The Last Camp – Rochon Sands
Motorcycle Vapors . Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesUnits Traveled – 576 Or So I wasn’t going to bother documenting this motorcycle rip and camp. It seemed too short and inconsequential, insignificant compared to the other adventures on two wheels instead of four that I squeezed in this year. I had already done the annual fall ride of the south to north Highwood
Written by awneitsch on September 14, 2025
Rocky/Brazeau-Nobody On The Road-Laws Broken-And A Loss
Motorcycle Vapors . Social StudiesA MERE BUT SATISFYING 800 OR SO UNITS TRAVELLED ONE UNIT = ONE KILOMETER Other than the title and it’s sub, ‘Nobody On The Road’ didn’t have much to do with this short rip north and back. Other than the distinct possibility of death while on a mission, the Rocky and Brazeau areas north of
Written by awneitsch on September 4, 2025
The Acknowledgement – The Wave
Motorcycle Vapors . Social StudiesThe motorcyclist wave, also known as the biker wave, is a gesture used by motorcyclists to acknowledge and show camaraderie with other riders while engaging in a mutually satisfactory and necessary activity. It is a courteous and sometimes awkward or inconvenient way of saying ‘hello’ and expressing community among fellow motorcyclists. It is a two or
Written by awneitsch on September 3, 2025
The Centers Of North America – There Be Monsters – Part II – Mission Aborted
Motorcycle Vapors . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseOne of the markers of whether a ride was a success or not is whether anything broke during the trip, whether I got stranded or whether I lost any gear or not. This trip, aside from the challenges and anxiety of being vulnerable in a meteorologically challenged world netted a loss of one banana and
Written by awneitsch on August 30, 2025
An Almost Selkirk Loop – And A Border Crossing
Motorcycle Vapors . Social StudiesOnly 1609 Units Travelled – One Unit Equals One Kilometer A NOTE ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF MOTORCYCLE RIDING – Riders will often proclaim that they enjoy the freedom of riding – the 360-degree stimulation of the senses, the open-air concept of riding with perhaps some faint knowledge of the movie, ‘The Wild Ones’ starring Marlon
Written by awneitsch on August 18, 2025
The Centers Of North America – There Be Monsters – Part One
Motorcycle Vapors . Social Studies“You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters!“― Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow “I’m just going to go for it” – Noraly Schoenmaker (AKA Itchy Boots) Here there be monsters, or here be dragons, are phrases used on geographical maps. It derived from the inscriptions on first maps of the mostly unexplored world that
Written by awneitsch on July 22, 2025
Riding…Down Under
Motorcycle VaporsThe epic Australian adventure happened a lifetime ago it seems. I’ve delayed finishing this piece for reasons I’m only now beginning to come to terms with. After watching the leaked news out of Australia during the brutality of the worldwide COVID grift pandemic of international concern I wondered if I would ever get to see
Written by awneitsch on June 8, 2025
Lolo Pass, Lolo Passed, Lolo Past
Motorcycle Vapors . Social StudiesMay 29 – June 2, 2025 – Total Loop 2050 Kilometers I begin, relieved to be on my way, away from my troubles and worry, away from an iffy ignition switch and away from a very Canadian Jones Plantation truth doom scrolling news porn treadmill – and back on two wheels instead of four. I
Written by awneitsch on May 9, 2025
Flash Memory – I Need More Time
Motorcycle Vapors . Poly Tics . Social StudiesOpposable Thumb Technology. Flash memory is a form of nonvolatile memory with continuous storage, even without a power source. It enables byte-level rewrites and deletions of data blocks. Flash memory devices are commonly found in a wide range of portable devices, like USB flash drives, smartphones, digital cameras, video games, tablet computers, flash memory cards
Written by awneitsch on April 11, 2025
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Asanas
Motorcycle Vapors . Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesRobert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was written in 1974. It presents a partially fictionalized auto-biography that examines how people seek or ignore quality in their lives and how they deal with fear, love and other emotions. Most of the narrative is interwoven with an extended motorcycle trip the author took with his