BBBC Challenge Days 3&4

Days 3&4 of the Brave, Bold, Blogger Challenge (BBBC) issued by my moto-blog friend Kathy, aka Toadmama! 

Yesterday I completed my second post, albeit on the third day of the February challenge, and today (Day 4) I am again taking advantage of the ‘no rules’ philosophy and combining days 3 and 4 to get current! Continue reading

BBBC Challenge accepted! Day 1

I know this is crazy, since I haven’t posted since last August, but I have accepted the Brave, Bold, Blogger Challenge (BBBC) issued by my moto-blog friend Kathy, aka Toadmama! It involves a post each day in the generally moto-bare month of February, based on a list of prompts she provided. I am starting off strong with my first post, on the actual first day of February! 🙂 Continue reading

No blog joy with pictures

For all two of you waiting patiently for updates on our epic inaugural retirement motorcycle trip, just an update: I only brought my Samsung Galaxy Tab S, and there is apparently an issue with the latest version of the WordPress mobile app for Android.

Since our arrival in Texas on April 9th, I have done quite a bit of writing, but I am unable to post ANY pictures. Boo. What is a story without pictures? Didn’t happen, that’s what.

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Voices of Motorcycle Bloggers

Looking south on NC 80

I recently became a follower of a motorcycle blogger with the fabulous name of Fuzzygalore, who writes about riding, motorcycles, and fun things to look for out on the road during motorcycle travels, and uses the tagline “Girlie Motorcycle Blog”. How could anyone resist? Incidentally, I discovered Fuzzy through her comments on Leslie’s Motorcycle Adventures blog, Advgrrl. Leslie posts videos all the time, so we know what she looks and sounds like!  Why shouldn’t the rest of us join her?

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The stars aligned…

Photo credit: www.zdnet.com

Photo credit: http://www.zdnet.com

I have spent almost 30 years in corporate life, with the first ten in the relative security of a large private insurer, and the last 19 and a half in the much more volatile telecommunications industry. Those of you who are familiar will understand living with the quarterly, if not monthly, fear of being impacted by a reduction in force (RIF), lay off, redundancy, or any other fun term you may have heard for losing your job. I was truly fortunate to have survived dozens of these events, plus mergers, bankruptcy, flaming implosion, CEO going to jail, more mergers and acquisitions over almost 20 years.  My husband had lived through years of the same in similar hi-tech industries, although in smaller, start-up companies, before finding his calling in the motorcycle business.

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