Written by awneitsch on September 13, 2026
Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan – Part 3 Of The Lake Trilogy – With More Bonus Lakes Too – File Under Another Acerbic And Absurd TMI Post
Motorcycle Vapors . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseAugust 31 – September 2, 2026 Kilometers Travelled – A Paltry And Piddling 1590.9 Meadow Lake is a town and a lake. The town is beside the lake. Typically lakes are the focus of the town. Typically exclusive communities and recreational facilities are built up around the lake. This lake is primarily used as a
Written by awneitsch on August 24, 2026
Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta; Flood And Fire – A Listening Tour – Part 2 Of The Lake Trilogy With A Few Bonus Lakes Too
Motorcycle Vapors . Poly Tics . Social StudiesAugust 14-16, 2025 Kilometers Travelled – A Niggardly 1487.7 While I waited for the Second Coming Of Charlie Kirk, the Strait Of Hormuz to open, the Ukraine/U.S./Russia/Iran psyop proxy wars to end, world peace, collective sanity, or a break in the weather flash floods, and fire storms, I monitored Firesmoke.ca and various weather apps, looking
Written by awneitsch on July 26, 2026
Miquelon And Lac La Biche, Alberta – I Just Had To, Didn’t I? Part 1 Of The Lake Trilogy
Motorcycle Vapors . Social StudiesJuly 6 – 8, 2026 Kilometers Travelled – 1338 The idea was to run a fitness test of body, mind, and machine to see if I still had what it takes to undertake any further moto camping adventures. Some post chemo long range side effect heart/cortisol/troponin issues raised some flutterings and concerns over the long
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
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 existentially 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
Written by awneitsch on September 3, 2025
The Centers Of North America – There Be Monsters – Part Two – 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