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England & Scotland

In the Spring of ’23, Tori and I took a two week trip to the UK. We spent 5 days in London so Tori could show me the sights from her grad school days at University College, had a brief stay in Sandwich to continue our quest of visiting every town named Sandwich, then spent

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NEBDR Sections 3-4

After burning out the DRZ’s clutch earlier in the summer, I decided that I needed to redeem myself with at least a short off-road trip. I replaced the DRZ’s clutch pack with a heavy duty set from EBC, changed the oil, and repacked my bags. Since I had used a decent chunk of vacation time

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Macedonia Falls

After spending the winter planning and gear shopping for a two-week trip on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Backcountry Discovery Routes, I wanted to start the spring with a shakedown run to make sure I had everything sorted for my planned load out. Mostly I wanted to make sure I had the chance to test the

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NEBDR Section 3

This was a short overnight trip I took on the DR-Z I took to test out a new hammock camping set-up and the Acerbis 4-gallon tank I’d just installed. I’d always been super hesitant to take solo off-road trips prior to this for fear of getting stuck in the woods by myself, so this was

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Block Island

In August of ’21, Tori and I took her mother, Dorothy, on a day trip to Block Island, RI. After an early morning drive to New London, we set off on a windy ferry ride to the island. Tori and I had only been dating for a few months at this point, so this trip

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