Because We Still Can – Hondas, Harleys, Hardship, and Healing
After losing his first wife to cancer, the author remarried quickly and bought a motorcycle. Touring the countryside on motorcycles became a way to build memories with his new wife, cope with painful memories, and deal with stress.
Because We Still Can details how motorcycle riding became an essential part of the author’s maturing process as he learns to face his fear of being alone with solo rides across the west, balance the past and the present, and count his blessings as he encounters people with far more problems and pain. In Because We Still Can you will tag along as the author rides through many places in the western United States, solo and with his wife. Feel the emotion as he says goodbye to friends and loved ones and learns to better understand himself. Share in the adventure as he hits a deer on his bike, gets drenched in pouring rain, rides through blistering heat, buys a Harley, and gets his first tattoo. Try to keep up as the author and his wife push themselves just a little too hard, simply because they still can.
Two Years On The Run
Losing his spouse of nearly twenty-eight years to fast moving cancer the author found himself facing loneliness like never before. To combat this powerful malady, he took the most logical steps he could think of. Within eight months of her passing he had married a woman he barely knew, and decided to live life in the fast lane on a motorcycle.
“Two Years on the Run” is the story of the author and his wife, also widowed, attempting to build a history together. As they travel to Alaska, Florida, and Maui, backpack Zion National Park and take many motorcycle trips in the first two years of their marriage, they face their painful pasts and build memories together. As you travel with the author and his spouse, you’ll enjoy his self-deprecating humor as he describes his attempts to transition into this new life. You’ll face the challenges with them as they travel four thousand miles in two weeks on their bikes, overcoming the elements and the author’s mechanical ineptitude. Along the way you’ll laugh with and at the author and learn interesting facts about the places they visit.
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
This is a collection of humorous short stories detailing the author’s desire to become an outdoorsman. Follow the author as he receives hunting lessons from his father and passes his knowledge on to his son. In the process he gets caught trespassing, tries to train a retriever, gets hit by a logging truck, avoids jail with a rifle and much more. In the process of being amused by the author’s stupidity, you’ll also learn some history and interesting trivia surrounding the places he’s lived, hunted and grown up.
Misguided Fishing Trips and Other Near Disasters
In this book, the author of “It seemed like a good idea at the time” shares more of his humorous outdoor experiences. In this book you’ll laugh as the author:
Rides a raft constructed from an Army war games map
Crashes during a hang gliding lesson
Buys and sells an ancient boat
Catches a duck while fishing
Nearly drowns trying to surf in Hawaii
Chases calves through neighborhoods and fields
Contends with drunk fishermen
Sit back and enjoy reading about the author’s mishaps and stupidity and realize that some people should never go outside.