Longitude & Gratitude

Tag: travel

  • Mille Miglia New England

    Mille Miglia New England

    Lago di Como, meet Lake Winnipesaukee. Passo dello Stelvio, say hi to Jefferson Notch Road. Autostrade Uno, I give you I-93. It’s good that we get to know each other. Because this Connecticut Yankee is going to traverse King James’ old colonial court aboard his very sleek, very Italian motorbike, searching for la dolce vita in the…

  • A Town Called Allis

    A Town Called Allis

    For American kids who came of age in the Eighties, The Jam were a slightly off-kilter band. Not as iconically punk as the Sex Pistols, not as commercially successful as the Clash (my first true love), and not as sonically original as Gang of Four. Nevertheless, one spin of This Is the Modern World and…

  • An Urbane Adventure

    An Urbane Adventure

    Greetings motorized tweed lovers, Goodyear welt-wishers, suspender fetishists, bowtie buffs and Members of the Loyal Order of the Pocket Square. This one is for you. For many riders, motorcycle adventuring has come to mean, almost definitionally, scrambling across hardscrabble terrain in far-off lands, riders clad neck-to-toe in armored, dust-crusted GoreTex spacesuits, their peaked helmet-visors pointing towards…