Last year, around my birthday, I figured I could get a street legal dirt bike and put a hitch mounted motorcycle carrier on my truck and go sea-kayaking by myself. I could chain the mc to a tree downstream, drive upstream and have a motorized vehicle to get back to the truck. I purchased a 2007 KLX250, and with a learners permit in my hand, I left the mc store on the bike. I’m sure the salesman was taking bets I wouldn’t make it home. 

      Things didn’t work out exactly as planned. It didn’t matter if I rode the bike on the sand at the beach, off road trails, city streets, or highways, I just didn’t want to get off the bike. I found that the bike and the hitch teamed up well with our 21’ Coachman, and carried it around 30000 miles to explore national and state parks throughout the country.

      I got my license near the end of June and racked up about 4,000 miles on the 250. At the end of July I purchased a 2007 1600 Vulcan Nomad. I also started riding with the Patriot Guard. Today, the Vulcan has about 20,000 miles of hard road riding in all kinds of weather (except ice), day and night.

      I’ve been trying to get to Alaska for about the last 6 years.

      I’ve taught and did graduate studies and research in Electrical Engineering at Tuskegee University, was a clock tree designer for a partnership between Lucent/Bell Labs and Motorola, a chip and board designer for National Semiconductor, a strategic account engineer for Seagate (NCR/ATT), a field engineer for MicroMedic Systems. Gamma Counters, Beta Counters, Pipetting

     I graduated high school in 1971 from Sumter, SC and got a BS in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Computer Engineering from GA Tech.

     Six years in the Navy -- I’m a plank owner on the Nimitz, first nuclear carrier.  I did a Med cruise on the America.  I was assigned to VA-35 and responsible for avionics and weapon systems.

     And while I’m currently semi-retired, I manage my wife and daughter’s law firm