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"Taking the Indian home" This is a true adventure that takes place in The United States of America and Canada beginning from my home base on the East Coast of Australia. Lets explain the title. The Indian is my 2015 Indian Scout motorcycle purchased new from Indian Sydney immediately upon my return from my 2015 European trip aboard my well travelled Triumph Sprint ST 1050. That was a almost 20000km 30 country adventure, that stretched from the Altanic Ocean to ...

The skies were dark, rain had fallen yesterday quite heavily and it was threatening again. The smell of pancakes was the lure to another Stampede pancake breakfast. So it was all in the car and a trip to the Green Gate Nursery (plants not kids) in the South West of Calgary just off Macleod Trail and we arrived to be greeted with no Yes empty tables where we at the wrong address or wrong day,then looking closer there were a few (hundred) people waiting in line alr...

The GPS was forgotten in our haste to leave so it was geography to find #225 59249 18 Ave SE. Fortunately none of our party suffer from ADHD or ADD so we happily to accept that ADSS was our chosen destination. It was raining so it was a drop at the gate of ADSS and the car parked some distance away. ADSS made us welcome for their Stampede breakfast and offered pancakes well no they didn't gee withdrawal was likely to happen. So what did they offer well a bun (sa...

Any of my readers who have visited Calgary will know that it is not only famous as the home of The Calgary Stampede & Exhibition for the past 104 years is also known as the City of four seasons in a day. Faced with rain,sunshine,sleet and winds annually around this time of the year it means that the annual Stampede will proceed regardless of the weather. The Calgary floods of 2013 is again lived up to the Calgary testimony to this spirit when even the infiel...