2012 has been an interesting year...Leslie got a new job and is now working for BC Transplant as an Organ Donation Coordinator and Organ Donation Specialist.
Cheryl continues to do well in her police career and we got engaged. Wedding will be next August 2013. More info please read below.
Cheryl and I met in 1997 in Bellingham, Washington. We kept in touch over the year via the internet plus flying back and forth. Before we both knew it I moved all the way across the country to a new country no less in march 1998 and been here ever since. I, meaning Leslie grew up in New York on Long Island where her family still remains except my brother.
Went to College in upstate NY and grad school back on Long Island where I got my Masters Degree in Social Work. In 1999 I started working as an Intensive Care Unit Social Worker at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC and loved my job after all those years.
Cheryl grew up in the lower mainland of BC and many of her family members are here as well. Beautiful place to grow up and go to school. Throughout Cheryl's teenage years and adulthood she worked for her mother's family business. However, at the ripe old age of 35 she decided to embark upon a career in law enforcement which she has been enjoying for over 5 years. Cheryl has found a passion within the Police force working with kids in schools.
We have been together as partner's for 15 years and after Cheryl graduated Depot (Police Training) we both got motorcycles and our licenses. I grew up on bikes and Cheryl always wanted to learn to ride. Learning was easy for Cheryl and getting back on a bike for me just made sense. Cheryl thinks I am obsessed with bikes but to be honest once she is on the road I can't stop her.
Cheryl loves video games, I love wild life, Cheryl dreams about white sandy tropical beaches, I dream about seeing the polar bears in Hudson Bay, Manitoba.
Opposites attract and we both share a passion for adventure motorcycle touring. We learned this after buying our first 2010 BMW F650GS bikes. We travel well together making sure we are both taking care of ourselves. Cheryl is the brains, mechanic, navigator and packer, I am the organizer/planner.
Cheryl is the quiet one, I am the loud New Yorker. Cheryl loves video games, I love live web cams featuring Bald Eagles, Falcons, osprey's and Owls. In the end it seems to work.
More pics and video to come from today’s Newbie Dual Sport BC Spring Ride….it was awesome. No damage to me, Leslie or the bike!
You did very well considering what the trail was like. I’m not sure I would have had the confidence to ride in that stuff. Good for you!
I am going to post some other clips of the sections we rode…what I love about Dual Sport BC is that the “C” trail is considered easy…not saying it’s difficult but it’s not easy and every time I ride out there the trail looks different and has interesting twists literally. But I loved it…was so good to get out there and ride with the guys!
ha ha been there dun that probably going to do it again. As long as it is just a bruised ego all is well
Boy it happens just so fast! I am now way beyond wanting to do this as I just don’t feel I can afford to fall anymore. Last 2 times I ended up with a leg caught under the bike which never happened before so now I have it in my head that my reflexes are too slow to have a safer get off. So glad you are fine and I admire the ‘get back up on your horse’ and ride out. I would’ve turned around too before the snow even! I wonder if there is an age when it is just smart to back off and keep the anxiety level to a dull roar?? I would not be on those roads without my tires studded with the old sheet-metal screws I had on back in the winter of ’74 when I rode all winter on snow to work. There just seems to be a bunch of red flags waving now to stay outta trouble. I know…no fun there! Are your tires the Heidenau Scouts?? Did they compare favourably to others…say a TKC in this stuff?
you just have to go with what you are comfortable doing…I mean I probably got a few gray hairs yesterday but it was a good adrenalin not overwhelmingly stressful. At any age taking a ride out of your comfort zone would make anyone turn around. Just depends on you. The Heidenau’s on my bike right now have over 22,000 KM and might change them in the near future. they still have a lot of tread on them. TKC’s would have been better but even the guys with more knobby tires still wiped out.