Category Archives: touring

Before #1: Geezers on Beemers: (AKA: Steamboat Springs 1997)

Posted on November 9, 2022 by toomuchexperience

All Rights Reserved © 1997 Thomas W. Day [For the last many years, I’ve said Geezer #1 "What Are We Riding For? (The original, from whence The Geezer came from October 1999" was the first thing I ever wrote for … Continue reading →

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Go Places, Meet People, Burn Their Fuel

Posted on August 1, 2022 by toomuchexperience

August 2022: This is another old one, from the Geezer blog (never published) in 2008. I thought enough of the title to turn it into a t-shirt and I still wear that shirt often. I sent this one in from … Continue reading →

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Geezers on Beemers

Posted on July 25, 2022 by toomuchexperience

(AKA: Steamboat Springs 1997) July 2022: Turns out, this might have been the first article I wrote for MMM in late 1997, published in issue #13. If that’s true, I don’t know what happened to the letter that I intended … Continue reading →

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Getting Parked and My Opinion

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Man, talk about digging up the past! I wrote this essay after writing an essay, twice, about the subject of motorcycles and urban parking. Andy has been a good friend for longer than he has known me, having … Continue reading →

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#77 On Being Alone

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is another old one, from 2008, and another Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge column. For me, today, there were a lot of insights into my own personality here that I didn’t unpack until I’d been … Continue reading →

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#84 Because It Is Still There

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Yet another one from my deep, dark, boring past and the 84th Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge Column. All Rights Reserved © 2007 Thomas W. Day George Mallory, the British mountaineer, supposedly told a reporter that … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Dawson City

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is another old won, originally a Geezer with A Grudge Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly column from 2013. All Rights Reserved © 2013 Thomas W. Day I’ve written about this a couple of times, but on a vacation trip … Continue reading →

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Miles and Miles to Travel (1994)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is a really old one. I was living and working in Colorado at the time. An old friend called wanting to celebrate his recent brush with Microsoft fortune and fame by inviting me to his place near … Continue reading →

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No, 70 Is Not the New 50

Posted on August 16, 2021 by toomuchexperience

A good friend and I are trying to plan a moderately unscheduled motorcycle trip, meeting in South Dakota and traveling up the Hills into Teddy Roosevelt and across to Bismarck, before we split up and he heads north into Canada … Continue reading →

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Product Review: Wolfman Enduro Tank Bag

Posted on September 11, 2014 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is a much older review than the copyright notice below suggests. It was written in 2009 for another MMM Geezer with A Grudge column. My already low opinion of Wolfman dropped even further when a representative of … Continue reading →

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