Iceman 2019. The story this year was the mud. The story every year is that I have a nemesis. Hour 1 At 46 minutes, I was still upright, but as I approached another section of single-track hell, I moved aside to let riders pass. “Go,” I said, waving them on. I knew I would slow them down […]
Motocross Camping
When Covid canceled all the races in the world, one rare breed persevered: motocross. So when our son Nelson, 16, wanted to take on bigger races in Michigan, we had nowhere else to be. It was good timing. And I was thrilled that we would get to take our camper for our first ever weekend […]
The Dodge Ram
I’ve never found a more willing teenager than one who is on the verge of buying his first truck. After months of COVID chaos and virtual driver’s ed, Nelson finally got his Segment 1 permit at the end of August. He had his class done and his drives—and instead of the predicted three-month wait to […]
Sleeping with the enemy
It was a camping trip I threw out there on a whim—hey, let’s just head over to Interlochen State Park for the week—we can do “lake living.” Tim could commute to work, and I could work online from a picnic table overlooking Duck Lake. Little did I know I wouldn’t sleep the entire week. Prep […]
Snowmobile Lessons
My sister and I grew up on snowmobiles. Weekends and evenings were spent outside sliding off the back of the slick seat of a 1981 Ski-Doo, trying to hang on to one another, riding double. Of course, the point was to dump the other one off, pretend we didn’t notice and leave a sister in […]