2023 HoT – World Wide Texas Tour
April 27, 2023 Remember that rally master last year delivering the packet a couple weeks ahead of the ride? I was going over possible routes way too many times! Well, this year Paul Tong...
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2020 HoT Rally Finish – Rawhide
October 17, 2020 The Heart of Texas long-distance motorcycle rally is typically scheduled in the springtime. Need I explain further that the COVID-19 pandemic has totally screwed over our lives this year? But, Paul...
Big Money Rally 2020
January 1, 2020 It’s another new year and another new Big Money Rally. Reno John and his team again spent countless hours to come up with some new themes for this year’s long rally,...
Been There, Done That
Justin Philipson’s HW3 rally had been canned due to the ongoing pandemic. Riders still wanted to ride, including me… Peter Green came up with an idea to keep us on the bikes, ride a...
How the West was Won 32-hour Rally – 2019
August 7, 2019 My Iron Butt Association National Parks Tour was almost done with only one state left to obtain a NPS stamp to complete the certification requirements. I would work this in during...
2019 Big Money Rally
February 22, 2019 It was the first spring of my retirement from the job I had held for 39 years. This was the perfect year to do another BMR. Reno John Austin and his...
2017 HW3 – Heaven and Hell
Justin was at it again… He and his team devised yet another brain-tweaker for the fourth edition of the How the West was Won 32-hour rally. This year’s theme was Heaven and Hell, with...
2017 IBR Checkpoints 1 and 2
June 28, 2017 The 11-day 11,000 mile Iron Butt Rally riders began their challenging journey from Minneapolis on June 21st. They scattered about the USA and Canada making their way to Checkpoint 1 in...
2015 HW3 32-Hour Rally – Albuquerque
October 15, 2015 I was making my way west to “Tucumcari Tonight” trying to find the original path of Route 66 along the way. I did not have to get to the tech inspection...
Colorado 2014 – How the West Was Won
July 24, 2014 It was time for another IBA-style ride. I found the How the West Was Won 32-hour endurance rally in the Iron Butt Association site several months earlier. Justin Philipson was the rally...
