Yes, it is time again…. we’ll be heading for the States this Fall again and planning on seeing a lot of friends, most on 2 wheels, with or without wings ! First we’ll head over to Aruba on Sept 30, to celebrate Vivian’s 30th birthday, then we’ll hop over to Florida for a few [...]
Apparently the French politicians – like most of their counterparts all over the world – have nothing better to do than come up with anal retentive ideas. Recently one of them came up with the brilliant idea to forbid lane sharing by motorcycle riders. That means filtering in between (almost) stationary cars. The good man [...]
Our friend Kenny Simon lost his job in a similar way I did a a few years ago, after many years of loyal work. He too decided to start his OWN business instead of trying to work for another thankless company again and he now opened his motor service and repair shop. I made him [...]
Since not many people read here, I can safely list some of the projects I am currently working on….. And yes, as usual for me, not enough hours in a day! Oh, that picture on the left? Check out the list below….. I have a few irons in the fire so to speak. The top [...]
Darn! Been too busy once again! Here’s a quick update of what we did: we got on the bike, and onto the ferry to England. We visited our friends Didier and Liz in London and had a most wonderful 4 days visiting the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, meeting up with BMW friends at Duxford’s [...]
Finally, I might add. Been wanting to do this for many years, ever after my first (co-authored) book appeared. Now I have decided and started. Working title is ‘Guide to Motor Travel in the Alps’, but that may change. I drew up the initial chapter titles and made a bunch of notes of what to [...]
Yes, I KNOW my last post was on August 24th, when we returned to France. And now we’re almost ready to head north to Holland again. Been too buys to write here…. sounds familiar? But apart from the usual headache-inducing thoughts and discussions centered around how to make a buck with flightsim things, we had [...]
Unfortunately still temporary, but nonetheless a major improvement over the old one…. see for yourself ! Yes, we arrived at our ‘second home’ again. I say HOME instead of house, because that’s what it is to me. My favorite home at that, too! We’ll be here for awhile and I have all the (PC) gear [...]
Not definitely yet, but still…. we’ll be back home and truly settled by September 28th !! Lots of things to do… we start by taking the bike and my office PC’s (and ourselves) down to France. Planning of seeing the ‘Tour de France’, or at least the advertising circus….. doing a lot of pass riding, [...]
Since I’ve discovered Facebook, and became addicted, I am neglecting some of the other writing efforts. Among which is my blog, sadly. On the other hand I sometimes don’t know what to write and then won’t write. Simple. And effective. Let me collect some of the things that I FB’d about the past week, in [...]
One of the curses of modern-day Internet and computers is that there is TOO much information and too many places to uphold it seems. Or maybe the problem is simply that I am such a nosy guy and like to try everything and anything. *grin*. Whatever the issue, fact is that I have been spending [...]
There’s nothing I like better in Spring and Summer than the sweet smell of hay! I don’t know why. Maybe becasue I don’t smell anything all too well anymore, maybe because it reminds me of my childhood in Switzerland when I spent all Summers there. Today I took a ride out to Amsterdam and due [...]
…. Pinch…. ….OUCH ! …. Apparently yes. Writers block? Maybe. Busy? YES! And here I am, the man who bought a new paint set to take up the old hobby again in order to get some relax time off….. well, I sketched the outlines of my first new acquarelle and that was 2 weeks [...]
Today Riding School P’and Marieke Schipper get their brand new Yamaha XJ6 bikes and I am joining them to take some pictures of the delivery and the bikes themselves for the website. Before that I’ll take a ride to Enkhuizen and do some errands for Nina. Riding season now really has started and I’ll be [...]
Some people in our hobby seem to think they need to defend a bunch of lowlife running a software pirate site in Sweden (I reported on simFlight about the trial that started trying to get them in prison – again – ). Some for good, or rather sincere, reasons of political correctness, democracy rules, abiding [...]
You can usually tell when I managed to get myself too busy again when blog posts get few and far between. Like now! But it is not all bad (except for the prostate infection which is not only painful in a physical way ) because being busy means work and work means income! Trying to [...]
I had been looking forward a 4-week vacation in the Alps and riding all our favorite, and some less favorite, passes. Hoping to scout some new routes too. That wasn’t to be because of Mom. We returned after 2 days and one ride. I was now looking forward to a shortened vacation of two weeks, [...]
First some Flightsim news….. I owe that to all the ‘FS readers’ on this blog: We have signed up two new authors, Ron Jeffers and Simon Smeiman, who have been working on some projects of their own. Ron is making some bush missions for FSX that we’ll put up in a nice package, and Simon [...]
You know I bought and installed a Zümo 550 recently. The thing is, to mount it on the bike you put it in its holder and then push down a little lid, which i turn inserts two small pins into the Zümo itself, so it won’t fall out. But what if the lid pops up, [...]
Hah! Got ya! This is NOT about flightsim aircraft. Sorry! I recently bought and installed a real Garmin Zumo 550, the ideal companion for motorcyclists who love to plan and ride tours. This is a great kit, not only adding all-weather navigation capabilities to the motorbike, but also providing the spoken instructions to both our [...]
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