I have to write this in response to my critics who’ve been beating me up lately about not posting entries on my blog here.  MotoHippie is suppossed to be a blog about adventure motorcycle riding… being in strange lands, strange roads, seeing and meeting strange people.  Well… you need a motorcycle to experience adventure motorcycle riding.  Right now, I have in my possession only an adventure lawnmower.  I’ve taken a few 200+ km trips on ol’ Esperanza, but it’s not a joyful experience; I spend the rides stiffened against the wind and ducked down behind my two inch tall odometer.  So for now, I’ve been chronicling my daily experiences on another venue, my myspace blog.  My U.S. license turns 24 months old next month which will trigger a chain of events leading up to my registering and riding my BMW.  After I register and service her, I’m going to be all over the place.  Riding will once again be fun… I’ll have a little more mobility i.e. a bike that doesn’t max out at 90kph.  Life will be good.

Until then, I probably should bring the site up to snuff.  There’s a lot of items that I need to work on.  You see, I’m very interested in getting all these services talking to each other so that the site will be on autopilot when I start travelling in earnest.  I want to be able to upload coordinates, photos, videos, and blog posts independent of each other and have them form relationships which will make visiting my site interesting.  I’m talking maps with routes I’ve taken and places I’ve stayed… embedded pictures and video… major news related to the locations I visit.  You get the picture.  So what’s the problem?  Here it is: I can’t bring myself to write the code when I live in such a bad-ass city.  I can’t get enough of El Puerto, and I’ve only seen a little bit.