20 Years ago....

20 years ago to the day ( where did the time go?) I first swung a leg over the seat of a motorcycle on day one of the MSF basic rider course. I never ridden a motorcycle before that day, and inspired partially by the fact that a couple of my then co-workers rode motorcycles to work, and a false rationalization on my part that it would save me on gas money I decided to try it. Little did I know the places, the motorcycles, the people and the adventures that I would end up having over the next 20 years! My first posting on this blog was on August 12th of 2006 so it won't hit the 20-year mark till then. Since my first motorcycle, a Honda Aero which I quickly outgrew, to a BMW r1150 RT, to 4 Ural sidecars, a Suzuki DL1000 with a sidecar, a BMW R80 classic and finally my Yamaha TW200. You might say there's been a few motorcycles along the way. From my December 31, 2023 post: I had ridden (roughly) a total of 238,563 miles ridden. That works out to be a bit over 9 times the circumference of…