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 […]

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I’ve put it off long enough.
I suppose that I’m a little depressed that my pictures didn’t turn out… and that I accidentally left my video camera on and only got random shots from the first 50km or so of my trip. I also didn’t do much talking to the locals down there. The talking I […]

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I got the call on Thursday that my registration paperwork had been completed. I didn’t fool around at all… I made a mad dash to pick it up, get plates made, and get a parking pass for work. I almost had to kill my ride, Tom, as he took his sweet time at the […]

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I know that I said I wasn’t complaining about my registration/licensing woes anymore, but this is more for my own records than anything else. 
I can’t remember the exact date that I paid the 2000E for the Rieju (I’ve gotten back 300E because they couldn’t register it since), but it was somewhere in the first week […]

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I was right:  I didn’t get my bike.  I was completely let down.  That was the fifth or sixth time that I’ve been to the shop.  I lost count.
I feel I’ve done enough complaining for the month.  I believe it may be time to move on to something slightly more productive.  I want to make […]

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