motorcycle – Page 8 – The Travelin' Gringo

No Lottery. No Beer. What’s left? (meet a Tennessee original)

Knoxville, TN — Often the best part of travel is the people you meet. When I’m on the road, in[…]

DeLand, FL — “Beer Festival” — there’s no happier combination of words in the English language. I realize that beer[…]

Devils Tower, WY — If you’re of a certain age — that is to say, “old,” like me — you[…]

Sulphur, Louisiana — Sometimes you just know a place is gonna be good. When I’m on the road, I love[…]

Silver Springs, FL — As part of my never-ending search for high-calorie, low nutritional-value snack foods, on a recent road[…]

Caryville, TN — Each morning, Hack Ayers greets breakfast guests at the Hampton Inn hotel in this tranquil Tennessee town[…]

Thorn Hill, TN — There’s something extremely comforting about stopping at a roadside restaurant for a cup of coffee and[…]

Key West, FL — Thanks, Henry Flagler. Maybe I’m 100 years too late, give or take a few, but if[…]

Crazy Horse, SD — On any given day — weather permitting — the sounds of heavy machinery echo through the Black[…]

Sanford, FL — There’s no such thing as a bad day for chili, but it may be best as a[…]

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia — The ranger station at Rockfish Gap near Waynesboro, Virginia, is unattended as I glide past[…]

Near Shanksville, PA — Nestled within the serene, rolling hills of Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands sits a somber reminder of the[…]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the 37 years I’ve been a licensed motorcyclist, it’s that bikers love good[…]

Harry Sperl is just wild about hamburgers. “Made short, they taste good, they look good,” he proclaims. “And the hamburger[…]

I waited for a conductor to shout “All aboard!” And waited. Then waited some more; I was among the last[…]