About BigLefti
I started this blog in July 2007 with no particular plan except to document a road trip. 20 years later, 29 blogs, 861 posts, and more miles of American road than I have bothered to count, I am still at it.
Long before the blog — some years and a lot fewer miles ago.
I ride motorcycles. I ride ATVs. I have ridden in the Arizona desert in summer, which is either brave or foolish depending on who you ask. I would tell you it is neither. I have been to Alaska, Arkansas, Mexico, Idaho, Utah, and most of the American Southwest. Nearly all of it was shot with a Canon PowerShot SX620 HS. I know that camera better than most people know their phones.
My captions are short. My observations are dry. I once wrote that a naked ocotillo cactus might offend sensitive viewers. I have photographed my food in Albuquerque, sat in the shade of a fountain in Fountain Hills, and taken a little girl named Rose for peppermint ice cream on the back of the motorcycle because she was too shy to ask and I could tell she wanted to go.
I am a handyman by trade, a rider by vocation, and a writer by habit. I am working on a chapter book called Tales from the Road. Chapter One is the night I parked a 57 Pan Head chopper in a church parking lot at midnight and two sheriffs showed up, sat on the bike, and left without writing a single ticket. It is a true story.
Also long before the blog. The hair came and went; the road never did.
My wife Jeannie has been along for more of this than the blogs let on. Garry has been patient. Sherm has strong opinions about helmets and cell service. Together we have covered enough ground to fill a decent atlas.
This site collects all of it in one place. 2007 to the present. Every blog, every post, every photograph worth keeping.