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by James on October 28, 2011

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Current Michigan Travel Plan

by James on July 14, 2011

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Ok so here’s my current Michigan travel plan…

I’m going to ride on back roads through Peoria to Milwaukee where I will spend the night at the Aloft hotel. I will board the Lake Express Ferry the next day at 12:30pm and arrive in Muskegon, Michigan at around 4:00pm. After that, it’s a quick hour ride south to Douglas, Michigan where I will meet up with the family.

I haven’t booked the hotel or ferry yet so if Milwaukee doesn’t seem appealing then I’ll get on the 7pm ferry across the lake Friday night.

Here’s a map that sort of approximates my ride north of Friday to Milwaukee. I will probably stray from this route but I will check in every hour or so on my SPOT.


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NYC with a Leica M6 and Some Film

06.01.2011

I bought a Leica M6 (film camera) and took a little trip to New York City for some street photography. Here are a few of my favorites, the rest are on Facebook: NYC Shot on Film

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Lost Creek on my F800GS

03.23.2011

Lost Creek on a F800GS from James Dixson on Vimeo. Taylor, Chris, a couple of www.advrider.com friends and I went out and rode Lost Creek area on Sunday. We got off to a bad start on one of the low water bridges on Charrette Creek Road and had to recover the DRZ. We later made [...]

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A New Two Wheeled Machine

03.19.2011

I got a new mountain bike…let the fun and carnage begin. It’s sort of frightening heading out with shorts, a t-shirt and a styrofoam cooler strapped to my head when I’m used to riding the motorcycle with the equivalent of body armor on. Anyway, it’s equally fun and probably better for physical fitness.

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Weekend Riding in the Cold

03.07.2011

I went for a little ride to check all my gear over the weekend. The heated jacket works quite well but I need to upgrade my gloves. The temperature dipped to below freezing and my hands where a bit cold. I put some OR overmitts on and this helped a bit but they felt weird [...]

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ContourHD External Mic Mod

02.28.2011

ContourHD External Mic Mod from James Dixson on Vimeo. I modified my ContourHD video camera so it had a plug for an external microphone that I put inside my helmet. The mod is pretty easy if you have a #0 phillips screwdriver and a soldering iron. Basically, I took the camera apart, cut the mic [...]

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A Sunny Sunday Ride on the F800GS

02.27.2011

F800GS Sunday Ride from James Dixson on Vimeo. I was messing around with the helmet cam. I would have gone to the woods but my ankle kind of hurt so I just played around St. Louis a bit.

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First Ride on the DRZ400

02.20.2011

First Ride on the DRZ400 from James Dixson on Vimeo. My buddy just got a DRZ400.

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Lego Kubrick & BMW F800GS

02.16.2011

Lego Kubrick & BMW F800GS from James Dixson on Vimeo. Here’s my contribution to the Lego Kubrick stop motion thing that people are so found of… I made it because my friend said my new motorcycle looked like a storm trooper. I shot it with my S95 so you would have thought I would have [...]

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