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Copper Canyon
Have you ever wanted to do an offroad trip to copper canyon in Mexico ????
Do you need advice how to prepare your bike and cross the border ???
Have you been a zillion times and want to relive it again ??????
Would some gps tracks and waypoints help you along ????
This video goes to all the popular places---but goes much further
and travels some routes not many have rode---just click on the helmet !!!

And don't forget the Pacific Northwest Adventure ride that was featured in the
July, 2008 issue of American Motorcyclists magazine.

I just got my American Motorcyclist magazine in the mail today and popped her open and was appalled to see
the GasPipe, Killer and BigDog in their feature riding article. I took that picture of GasPipe and that is
our riding buddy Chris Kyle in the background.
I will never forget taking that picture as it is certainly one of best ones I ever took.
I looked at the picture when I got home and exclaimed..................

"If this picture doesn't stir your adventurous soul-----check you pulse"

Here are a few of my bikes that I travel on
And I wanted to include a picture of my lovely wife of 33 years who has
somehow put up with me and my adventures all these years
I don't know if she is waving Hi or Bye--she does that a lot !!!

If you ever seen this coming at you--better get out of the way
The rider is old and the brakes ain't very good,
And he never knows where he's going.

I guess only my closest friends know I am a musician--had a really good band for years.
We opened up for the Dixie Chicks and some other famous acts.
Yes that's me with the chicks.

If you ever heard me sing---you'd wonder how the heck did I every play a guitar !!
Notice I don't have a mic.
Don't let your daughters date a musician----or a motorsickle rider.

BigDogAdventures--the early years

Honeymoon May 24th, 1974
1969 Triumph 650 tiger chopper

Bike accessories
Headlight was a fender light off of an old tractor with an 1156 bulb (yes an ordinary turn signal bulb)---front brake, none--aftermarket gas tank, 3/4 gallon---front fender, none---rear suspension, you kidding ??-----Seat, there was none, just the "old gold blanket" folded up---sleeping bag, one biggin', we were in luv, and still are---rain gear, Huh ??----mufflers, oh please-----helmets, hah !!!----GPS, I don't think so.

The bike got us 45 miles from home and blew up---spent the afternoon in Goreville, Illinois waiting for a pickup---finished the honeymoon back in our 600 sq. ft. apartment.
Our first adventure !!!!
I still luv you Debi

So--please join me and my friends.

As we go down

The Road Less Traveled

Long Way UP BigDog and The Breeze ride the Tour Of Idaho Trail---a 1,300 mile road
and trail from the Utah border---to the Canada border.

Trans Wisconsin America Trail This adventure ride starts at the
Wisconsin--Illinois border and runs mostly offroad to a bluff overlooking
Lake Superior. I rode it alone on my KLR in June of 2008.

Shadow Of The Rockies Trail --Join me as we ride Sam Correro's newest ride thru New Mexico------a 700 mile trailride which starts at the Mexican border in Texas and ends up at the Colorado border where it crosses Sam's well known Trans Am Trail.

Barrancas Del Cobre -----A Husky TE610 and Honda XR650R travel some different routes around the Mexican Canyons and beyond.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils -----Fall 2007-----a dirt ride ?? a dualsport ride ??? an adventure ride ???----Well yes--it was !!!

Taylor Park Colorado July, 2007.... 9 dirt bikers hit the trails and mountain passes----am I too old to still ride a real dirt bike ????

Little Dog Gets Off The Porch June, 2007....BigDog, GasPipe and Killer take the big bikes to the pacific Northwest--and little dog................well,.........takes the little bike. 4,500 miles of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

200 Miles Of Bad Road BigDog and GasPipe in the Mark Twain Forest of Missouri--March 2007

Trans America Trail 2006 New years day 2006 we ride the unridden Kentucky and Northern Tennessee portions of the Trans America Trail.

Hoosier Hookey Ride It's fall in beautiful Indiana----we try to drowned a new KLR, find many new "old" bridges, and take a ride thru a live railroad tunnel--no, I still haven't growed up !!!

Arkansas Fall Color Tour 2005 We ride the Fall Color Tour Dualsport and get to hang out with Scott Harden--the man who headed the USA Paris to Dakar race team in 2005.

Homeless HoeDown The long way round'--to the adventure rider rally in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Le Tour De Divide A 2,700 mile offroad journey from Canada to Mexico--if Lance Armstrong can ride this far in the mountains--so can we !!!!!

Flag Day Adventure 3 KLR's, a KTM 950 and 1150GS ride the Missouri and Arkansas mountains-----and actually camp !!!!

It's a Bummer Snowfari

2004 TAT Trans-America Trail----7 riders ride the Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas portions of the TAT.

2004 Weekend Madness Join me on just some short weekend rides to some really neat places I've went throughout the year.

Swinging Bridges Dualsport 8 riders on 650 dualsports find and ride over the old and historic swinging bridges on the backroads of Missouri.

Mexico--Copper Canyon 9 days in Mexico--much more than just copper canyon. With a little trip thru big Bid Bend National park before coming home.

2003 Arizona Adventure --------Bears, scorpions, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, and cactus needles call us to the backcountry of Arizona on a KLR650, DR650 and XR400.

2002 Fall Adventure Ride 4 adventure riders tackle the backroads of the Appalachain Mountains---BMW R1150GS, DR650, BMWF650 and BMW 650 Dakar.

2002 Moab Dualsport ride from Moab, Utah to the North rim of theGrand Canyon and back!! 1,700 miles of rocks, sand, dirt, washes, mountain passes and jeep trails--On a Suzuki DRZ400S and DR650.

2001 Colorado Mountain Pass Ride----------3 riders tackle the high mountain passes of Colorado on a several day offroad dualsport adventure--on a Suzuki DRZ400S, DR650 and Honda XR600L.

2001 Arkansas 650 Adventure --4 riders, 5 days, rain, floods, flat tires, cold--well you get the picture !!!!! On 2 BMWF650's, DR650, BMW650 Dakar.

I don't have a clue who this guy is below---all I do know is----"He's My Hero".
I've got a feeling this is not only his transportation----but his house, kitchen, garage and church