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Riding With Strangers – 40th Anniversary Team Strange Airheads Grand Tour

NOTE: For the last eleven years, I’ve competed in a large-scale motorcycle scavenger hunt sponsored annually by Team Strange Airheads. This is a Twin Cities-based organization that got its start as a bowling team that evolved into a  BMW motorcycle … Continue reading

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After 23 Years, Memories of 9/11 Are Still Raw

9/11/24 Editor’s note: Yesterday morning I showed the “Welcome to the Rock” clip from the 9/11 themed musical Come From Away as my pre-class video in JMC 100 – Global Media Literacy. I then tried to tell my class the … Continue reading

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Remembering A Motorcycle Ride to the United 93 9/11 Memorial on a Rainy Summer Day

It was 22 years ago this morning that I was teaching my freshman media literacy course at West Virginia University.  I had a class with close to 350 students in it. C-SPAN’s Washington Journal morning show was playing on the … Continue reading

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Remembering 9/11 over the years.

Editor’s note: Much of this is drawn from a series of annual posts I have made over the years to commemorate 9/11 It was 21 years ago this morning that I was teaching my freshman media literacy course at West … Continue reading

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Riding the MABDR: Part 4 – All good things…

This is the last of a series of posts about riding the Mid Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route with a couple of my old motorcycle friends. Stage 7 – Of Bees and Trees.  As our ride up the Mid Atlantic Backcountry … Continue reading

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Riding the MABDR: Part 3 – Getting schooled on the road

This is one of a series of posts about riding the Mid Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route with a couple of my old motorcycle friends. After finishing the challenges of Stage 3, the next several days of riding were a lot … Continue reading

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Memories from 9/11 – Musicals, Movies and Motorcycles

It was 19 years ago this morning that I was teaching my freshman media literacy course at West Virginia University.  I had a class with close to 350 students in it.C-SPAN’s Washington Journal morning show was playing on the big screen as … Continue reading

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Travels With Putt Putt: Finishing out the season with a ride to the Ozarks.

Last week was fall break at UNK, and so it was one last chance for a multi-day ride before cold weather settles in for the season. First things first – get the bike ready to go complete with saddlebags, tank … Continue reading

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Travels with Putt Putt: Mountain High, Valley Low

I don’t generally name my cars, and I don’t really set out to name my motorcycles, but it seems like over the past decade most of the motorcycles I’ve owned have somehow let me know what they wanted to be called. This … Continue reading

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Travels with Putt Putt: ‘Oh thou that tellest good tidings to Zion’

I don’t generally name my cars, and I don’t really set out to name my motorcycles, but it seems like over the past decade most of the motorcycles I’ve owned have somehow let me know what they wanted to be called. This … Continue reading

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