It’s pouring this Sunday morning in the Smoky Mountain area of Tennessee. Yesterday night I was fortunate to find this beautiful little hotel built like a plantation-style house as a tribute to movie Gone with The wind. The lobby is decked with pictures of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh and when you walk in you […]

Friday morning, I wake up in Roanoke, NC. In the breakfast room the TV is open and showing Iranian President Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN General Assembly. He claims that the 9/11 attacks were a US conspiracy. I chat with a few bikers from Kentucky that I met last night and in the meantime think […]

So far the weather has been great. No rain, sunny skies, no humidity, not too hot… I carry a big rain suite and rain boots in the back, waiting for the rain that is bound to come at some point on a five week trip. Before leaving this morning I checked the weather forecast and […]

Before setting off, I had the opportunity to talk to Barbara Livingston Nackman of LoHud.com. We  discussed the itinerary, the interviews and the motivation behind my journey to find inner peace. Read the entire article here: http://www.lohud.com/article/20100919/NEWS02/9190372/Briarcliff-Manor-biker-dad-hits-road-to-find-inner-peace

Dear friends – if you are in the DC area this would be a great opportunity to meet. On September 21 at 7pm I will be at the “Carpool” in Arlington, in a “Happier DC meetup” hosted by Doug Hensch joined by many happiness enthusiasts. Hope to see you there! Here’s the link with more […]

Ride Of Your Life started as my own personal midlife cross-country fantasy. I then thought it would be nice to share my thoughts and experiences from the road using a simple blog, perhaps with some videos, Twitter, interview a few people… Eventually it became a project. The video stuff in particular was a little challenging […]

Jennifer Edwards writes about human experience as expressed in the arts and creative process, and its scientific study. A few years before setting out on the road I had the pleasure of speaking with her about motorcycles, family, creativity, technology, and inner peace. Here it is on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-edwards/technology-and-happiness_b_719909.html

We’ve all heard that “the clothes make the man” or that “you are what you wear”. And sometimes it is pretty astounding to see how different one looks when wearing different clothes. Check me out in the picture below. No jeans, no bandanna, no leather, no boots. I’m on my way to a wedding, wearing my best […]

I got in touch with L.J. James looking for local motorcycle clubs in New York to join me on my first day of the Ride. As it turns out, L. J. Hosts a great BlogTalkRadio show called “Biker Lowdown Radio”. We spoke and decided that I’ll call-in each Wednesday when the show is broadcast live […]

I grew up in the 80s and my musical identity was shaped when hair bands where hot (which seems strange today – perhaps it was a conspiracy of the spandex industry). So to date, even though I try to keep an open aperture if musical styles as a guitar player, if I pick up a […]