While Canada should be celebrating it's 150 anniversay of confederation it instead has entered what many refer to as it's darkest hour! July 7 is not a day any Canadian will forget, no their was no climatic disaster nor was there a major disaster, no famous person died but chaos politically as the ailing unliked Prime Minister Trudeau hurriedly left for an ürgent G20"conference and quickly made his main topic , yes you guessed, that tied, untruthful, money maki...

The routes changed, it's hot by Calgary standards it covers 4.5kms but still official figures estimated the world attended the 2017 Calgary Stampede Parade. The world you say, well later in the day at the opening of the Indian Village a show of hands was called for those in the crowd who did not live in Canada it looked like some 80% of hands rose skywards. So why do people come, well having been in Canada 5 out of the past 7 years i think i may just have some o...

A play on words I am now at Golden in the Canadian Rockies having just spent two days of sweeping curves, mountain passes in both upward and downward traverses and a collage of greenery that rivals the Redwood forests of the Western USA states. However one needed to keep a sharp lookout when riding as the native fanua such as Big Horn sheep, Elk & deer frequently decide the grass is greener on the other side of the roadway. Today I even encounted a traffic...

How often is one afforded the opportunity to have a concrete lunch? To add to this blog I ended up with a non flushing toilet so maybe it was an omen to have a concrete lunch. Lets not forget that I have not long came from Portland in Oregon, the home of cement. Even in Australia people are familiar with Portland cement. Therefore being offered the opportunity to partake of a Concrete lunch on the way North to Canada seemed an unusual opportunity not to be missed...

Freighter meets freight. The reason for me visiting Seattle was to show the Indian some of it's history. As you know it was flown to the US by air with United. However it flew first class in a 787 Boeing Dreamliner (cargo first class). Could it be the first Indian Scout to fly in such an aircraft? I had prebooked my 1pm tour as it is US summer holidays but actually Tom Tom worked wonders and had me at the Everett Airfield by 1015am and found a park in the bus ...