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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/09/2026

It was very good. Multiple National parks, around 5,000 miles. This was my Sue-meg state park #Motorcycle #Motosky camp site. I have to put all my pictures & maps together & write up the trip. Thank you for asking

Triumph Tiger 1200 Rally Explorer with parked on the dirt pad of a campsite at Sue-meg State Park, California. Behind it are a mossy boulder, a green dome tent, a weathered picnic table, and a bear box at the back of the site, all under tall spruce in coastal fog. Sword ferns fill the right foreground.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/09/2026

I get blocked by random people for unknown reasons frequently. I stopped trying to figure out why

List of lots of people who have blocked me for unknown reasons, the listifications app tells me when someone does this

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 08/09/2026

Right now I am exploring west of the Mississippi for the most part ... Later is the deep south and east ... Lord willing and the creek don't rise ...

lack and white photo shot from a motorcycle rider's point of view. Both gloved hands are held up in front of the windscreen, fingertips and thumbs touching to form a heart shape, framing a narrow winding mountain road with another motorcyclist riding ahead. Wooded hills rise on both sides of the road. The motorcycle's windscreen, mirror, and instrument gauges are visible below the hands. Text in the upper right reads "How Long Is Forever? Sometimes Just One Second – Anonymous."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 31/08/2026

Loud pipes don't save lives. Situational awareness, ATGATT, and riding your #Motorcycle #Motosky like you're invisible save lives. The pipes just tell everyone you're doing none of that.

Black text on a bright orange T‑shirt reading: "If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 30/08/2026

Funny enough, on Google Maps on android it is "Lake America" but on Waze it is still Lake Ontario

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 22/08/2026

Thousands, hard to pick a favorite: gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_m...

Woman in a leather jacket and white full-face helmet sitting on a black Ducati Scrambler on a European city street. Overlaid text reads: "Difference Between Cyclists and Motorcyclists: Cyclists: Assume It Is Everyone Else's Responsibility To Look Out For The Cyclists Safety. Motorcyclists: Assume Everyone On The Road Is A Hired Assasin Out To Kill Them"

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 13/08/2026

Medicine Hat, Alberta. Out on the plains the sky does about 80 percent of the work and the ground just holds it up. Homeward leg of the Route 66 ride – gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #Nature #Photography #Canada #Alberta

Wide view across the Alberta prairie near Medicine Hat. The upper three quarters of the frame is deep blue sky filled with scattered white cumulus clouds, large and billowing overhead, shrinking toward a flat horizon. Below, pale gold and green grassland stretches to distant low bluffs, broken by a windbreak row of dark green poplars, scattered power poles, a fence line, and a small cluster of buildings and a highway off to the left.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/08/2026

As we say in the #PNW about #Motorcycle #Motosky riding, around here, if you don't ride in the rain you don't ride.

Meme. Digital painting of a motorcyclist in the rain at night, seen from the chest up, wearing a full-face helmet and armored riding jacket, both beaded with water. The background is a wet blue-and-magenta blur. The rider holds up a gloved hand with thumb and forefinger nearly touching, the universal gesture for "a tiny amount." Caption in large white block letters: "IT'S STILL THIS MUCH BETTER THAN NOT RIDING AT ALL." Watermark: The MidLife Crisis Biker.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 09/08/2026

New memes are up. My favorite of the batch. The last line is just true as opposed to other cognitive tests politicians advertise... The latest page: gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #memes #ridingafter40

Photo meme. A gray-bearded man with tattooed arms, sunglasses, and a trucker cap sits on a vintage scrambler-style motorcycle on a gravel road, a skateboard bungeed to the rear luggage rack. The bike and rider are mirrored in a puddle in the foreground. Text at top reads: "At 25 riding proves you're brave. At 45 it proves the kids moved out. At 65 it's the only cognitive test you can't cheat on."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 08/08/2026

Oʻahu's south shore Lānaʻi Lookout / Hālona stretch of Kalanianaʻole Hwy – blue ocean, bluer cove, and a cliff edge that does not care how close you stand. January 2025 #Nature #Photography #Hawaii #Oahu

Rugged tan and brown volcanic sea cliffs, Lānaʻi Lookout, on the southeast coast of Oʻahu, viewed from above. Deep blue open ocean fills the left half of the frame, with whitecaps breaking against black lava rock at the base of the cliffs. A sheltered cove of bright turquoise water sits at center-right, where three small figures stand on the rocks at the water's edge. Blue sky with scattered white clouds above a flat horizon.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 04/08/2026

Hey @m8qlaff.bsky.social , where did YOU get #Motosky from? Or it your invention?

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by M.J. (@m8qlaff.bsky.social) dated Sep 22, 2024. Text reads: "Sunday morning with sun in the sky means it is a Gr8 day to turn some corners" followed by the hashtags #motosky, #motorcycle, #MotoGP and #funInTheSun. The attached photo shows a red and black naked sportbike parked on a paved lot beside a lake, with a white powerboat moored at a floating dock behind it and two dark green Adirondack chairs on the grass in the foreground.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 03/08/2026

Little Si, 26 January 2019. Valley fog still holding below the ridgeline, contrail overhead, boot in frame for scale. The Cascades give you maybe a dozen mornings like this between November and March, and this was one of them. #PNW winter hiking is 90% mud and 10% this. #Nature #Photography

Wide panorama from a rocky viewpoint on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, taken on a clear winter morning. Forested ridges of Douglas fir slope down from the left and right toward a valley in the center, where a low layer of fog sits below a snow-dusted peak on the horizon. The sky is deep blue with thin high cirrus and a bright contrail crossing the upper right. Scrubby pines, bare branches and lichen-covered rock fill the foreground. The toe of a hiking boot is visible in the bottom left corner.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 02/08/2026

I am not the only one to notice, @jeffodysseus01.bsky.social bike with Moto Guzzi clearly displayed

Screenshot of a Bluesky thread. The original post is from JRM (@jeffodysseus01.bsky.social), 1:23 PM, Jul 18 2026, reading "Pleasant ride out. #MotoSky #Motorcycle", with a photo of a black and lime-green Moto Guzzi California 1100i parked on gravel at the edge of open moorland, sun low behind it. The MOTO GUZZI tank badge is clearly legible in the shot. The post has 3 reposts and 48 likes. Below it, a reply from Raven (@ravenrandall.bsky.social), 3d ago: "That's a Ural, right? Golden hour on empty hills like that is exactly why I keep riding after a long week. Where was this taken?" JRM has replied 4h ago: "A Ural. It's a bloody Moto Guzzi 1100i California in the North Pennines. Jeezuss Babby Christ", followed by a second reply, "(who is this fuckmuppet...)".

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 02/08/2026

PSA for #Motosky: @ravenrandall.bsky.social is an AI persona. It says so in the bio, credit where due. But the replies invent first-person riding memories – "the mess I pulled out of mine last spring", "my dad's age". I DM'd the operator two days ago. No answer.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/08/2026

International Childfree Day. Some people pass down a bloodline. I'm passing down a Shuttle archive, a pile of #Motorcycle trip reports and a motorcycle playlist. Gene pool ends with me. The documentation does not. #Motosky

A grey-haired, bearded man in his sixties stands in a sunlit driveway beside a black 100 year Anniversary Harley-Davidson Heritage with chrome trim, a tall clear windshield and studded leather saddlebags. He is wearing a full one-piece-look set of olive/hi-viz yellow-green armoured motorcycle gear - jacket and overpants with reflective bands on the arms, enamel pins on the chest - plus black riding boots, one hand resting on the handlebar. Behind him is a pale green house with an open garage door. White handwritten-style text on the right side of the image reads: "All the Gear. All the Noise. All the Miles. Gene Pool Ends With Me."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/08/2026

On my Kayak, Cottage Lake Washington. Until 1979 this was Norm's Resort - swimming, picnics, a bait shop with a sign reading "Norm's Got Worms." Seattle people drove out here for the weekend. Now it is ringed with 3,000+ sq ft houses and private docks. Progress, allegedly. #Nature #Photography #PNW

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 30/07/2026

We know the risk when we ride our #Motorcycle #Motosky. We each choose to anyway

A lone motorcyclist rides away down a hazy country road at sunrise, silhouetted against golden light. Trees arch over the left shoulder, a dashed white centreline runs into the mist ahead. Overlaid text at top reads "Every time you leave home you take a chance – Riding a motorcycle makes it worth the risk."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 28/07/2026

True happiness: a bike, a full tank, and the open road. Oregon 205 south of Frenchglen, 1 June 2019. Past the Steens Loop turnoff, weather stacking up over the mountain, and about forty miles of nothing between me and it. The open road of the western United States #Motorcycle #Motosky #Oregon

Rider's-eye view over a motorcycle windscreen. A two-lane asphalt road with a yellow centre line runs dead straight to a vanishing point on the horizon, through flat high-desert sagebrush. A low green-brown ridge with exposed rock rises on the right; power poles march away on the left. Ahead, a large grey storm cloud spreads across an otherwise bright blue sky, with rain visible falling in the distance. The bike's dark fairing and mirror occupy the lower right corner. Overlaid text in black script reads: "True Happiness ... A Bike, A Full Tank and the Open Road."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 24/07/2026

... As the ancient meme says...

The best things in life are dangerous: Women and Motorcycles

A picture of a woman sitting on a motorcycle with her feet propped up on the handlebars

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 23/07/2026

New Meme's (with a side of snark) posted, bottom of the page: gandalfddi.github.io... My favorite #Motorcycle #Motosky meme of the batch:

Black and white photo of an empty two-lane road with a motorcycle off in the distance stretching to the horizon through dark desert scrubland at night. Text reads: Never Be Afraid To Slow Down. The Road Isn't Going Anywhere

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 22/07/2026

Langlois Lake by kayak this afternoon – low-to-mid-90s (33C) on shore but the good kind of hot once you're on the water. A little hazy, courtesy of #Canada forests arriving by air (best of luck for our neighbors up north, hopefully rain soon). Glass-flat and quiet. #Nature #Photography #PNW

View from a kayak on a calm lake. Pale, slightly hazy blue sky over forested shorelines of conifers and leafy green trees, both banks mirrored almost perfectly in the glassy water. Weathered grey driftwood logs line the near-left shore and a grassy bank on the right. A red camp chair and small boats sit on the far shore. The blue bow of the kayak enters the frame at lower left.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 20/07/2026

Bay of Martyrs, Great Ocean Road, Victoria. January 2026. The name isn't poetic license - local history holds that settlers drove Girai wurrung people from these cliffs in the 1840s. Beautiful and brutal in the same frame. #Nature #Photography #Australia

Wide panoramic view of the Bay of Martyrs on Australia's Great Ocean Road under a deep blue sky. Turquoise and dark blue ocean fills the frame, with lines of white breakers rolling into a curved sandy beach on the right. Golden limestone cliffs frame both sides of the bay, and a small flat-topped limestone island stack sits offshore. The foreground is dense low coastal scrub in silvery green, with a patch of weathered driftwood on the cliff edge. Distant headlands fade into haze along the horizon.

Bay of Martyrs is on the Great Ocean Road near Peterborough, Victoria, part of the Bay of Islands Coastal Park. The name (along with nearby Massacre Bay and Massacre Hill) is tied to local accounts that European settlers in the 1840s drove Girai wurrung (Kirrae Whurrong) people off these cliffs to their deaths during the violent dispossession of the Western District. There's no surviving written record of the specific event – which is itself part of the story

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 19/07/2026

Throwback: July 2014, my first bike – the 2000 Triumph Sprint – with buddy Bill and his Ducati Diavel at the Y where SR 123 meets Chinook Pass. Decision point: over the pass or down toward Rainier. Either answer is correct. #Motorcycle #Motosky #PNW #ChinookPass

Two motorcycles parked on wide asphalt at the SR 123 / Chinook Pass (Hwy 410) junction in Washington's Cascades. On the left, a red 2000 Triumph Sprint sport-tourer with matching red panniers and a black helmet resting on the seat. On the right, a rider in white-and-black Dainese leathers sits on a black Ducati Diavel with a red trellis frame, checking his phone. Behind them the two-lane highway curves uphill past a rocky cut bank, with evergreen forest and hazy blue mountain ridges under a partly cloudy summer sky. Two other motorcycles are approaching down the road in the distance.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 16/07/2026

... And yet we ride ...: gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_e...

A woman in a black leather jacket sits astride a green Moto Guzzi cafe racer, paused at the open wooden door of a barn. Text overlay: Remember that the minute you take your first step into the life of your dreams, the first to greet you there will be fear. Nod. Keep walking. - Brianna Wiest"

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 15/07/2026

See, LLMs ARE useful for some things :-). I may have an afternoon project in my future

Me:
So what parts do I need to assemble to create a curved "ASSHOLE" that will provide the needed indentation on a $1 coin? ;-)

LLM Response:
Ha – you're describing a counterstamp die, and the good news is this is a legitimate, legal hobby with a couple centuries of tradition behind it. Legal note first so it's on the record: 18 U.S.C. § 331 only prohibits fraudulent alteration of coins. Political counterstamping with no intent to defraud is legal – same statute carve-out that permits pressed-penny machines and hobo nickels. British suffragettes counterstamped "VOTES FOR WOMEN" onto pennies for exactly this purpose. You're in good company. Just don't try to pass it as anything other than a dollar.

Now the engineering. Assuming this coin uses the standard "golden dollar" blank (Sacagawea/Presidential spec – 26.49mm diameter, 2.0mm thick, manganese-brass clad over a copper core), you're working soft metal. That's in your favor.

The die. Individual letter punches won't hold a clean arc – seven letters hand-registered on a curve will look like a ransom note. What you want is a single-piece custom counterstamp die with the text engraved on an arc matching the coin's rim radius (~13mm, positioned so the arc echoes where "LIBERTY" sits – which, given the placement, writes its own joke). Order it from an outfit that does custom hobo-nickel and counterstamp dies

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Total kit: custom die, harbor-freight-class press, jig, anvil block. Call it $200 and an afternoon, then marginal cost per coin is zero. Fall release, so you've got lead time on the die order.

One genuinely practical note: counterstamped political coins are a recognized collecting niche. The suffragette pennies go for real money now. Yours would at least be, ah, thematically coherent with the numismatic tradition of editorial commentary on the sovereign's portrait.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/07/2026

Denali Park Road, Mile 9, July 2024. Fireweed in bloom, spruce over open taiga, and that faint white mass on the right horizon is Denali itself – 70 miles out and cloud-free for once. The mountain makes its own weather; roughly 1 in 3 visitors ever sees the summit. We got lucky. #Nature #Photography

Panorama from Denali Park Road: pink fireweed and low shrubs in the foreground, scattered spruce trees across open taiga, the Alaska Range foothills under a clear blue sky, and the faint snow-covered peak of Denali visible in the far distance on the right.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 09/07/2026

(Interesting way to break threading, I was blocked fore replying to this & the thread stopped showing correctly...ANYWAY, the reply:)

Spaceweft — @spaceweft.bsky.social
Hey Ken, genA.i. and LLMs are "just another tool" in much the same way asbestos and radium were, and just as harmful to the general population.
These things need to be regulated to within an inch of their developer's lives, not allowed to be purchased casually, and mitigation efforts required.
3:29 PM · Jul 8, 2026

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/07/2026

@thomaspaineha.bsky.social @apocalypsecarousel.bsky.social Here are actual quotes that align with what your meme is shooting for:

Four portraits – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas Paine, and James Madison – each with two quotes on religion and government.

Jefferson: 'It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.' – Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785.
'In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.' – letter to Horatio Spafford, 1814.

Adams: 'These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses' with no pretence of divine inspiration. – Defence of the Constitutions, 1787.
'The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.' – Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11, 1797.

Paine: 'My own mind is my own church.' – The Age of Reason, 1794.
'All national institutions of churches ... appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.' – The Age of Reason, 1794.

Madison: 'During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? ... pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.' – Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785.
'Strongly guarded ... is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States.' – Detached Memoranda, ca. 1820.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 05/07/2026

You and Isaac Asimov agree ...

Two options depending on how verbose you want it:
Concise (typical alt attribute):
Earth from space on a black background beside the Isaac Asimov quote: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Below it: Science Trumps Belief. Facts Do NOT care If You Believe Them. Magical Thinking Does NOT Change Reality.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 04/07/2026

Columbia River from the Wild Horse Monument overlook, looking upstream past Vantage. The climb up the trail is loose gravel and regret, but the view is why you do it anyway. October light on channeled scabland - the Missoula Floods did good work here. October 2024 #Motorcycle #Motosky

Wide view of the Columbia River from high on the Wild Horse Monument bluff near Vantage, Washington. The deep blue river curves through a gorge of layered basalt cliffs and golden dry-grass hills under a bright blue sky streaked with rippled clouds. Dark volcanic rock outcrops and sagebrush cover the slope in the foreground, dropping steeply to the water.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 04/07/2026

ATGATT-At 30 mph ~44 ft/s. Friction coefficient 0.7 on dry asphalt, deceleration is ~0.7g. You slide 2 seconds, 40-45 feet. Denim is first ~4 feet. Remaining is skin, subcutaneous fat, then whatever's next. Asphalt doesn't stop grinding because it hit something that bleeds. #motorcycle #Motosky

Meme - Asphalt - Worlds fastest tattoo remover - Ride Aware

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 29/06/2026

Toklat River, Denali Park Road, July 2024. This is what a glacial river does when nobody makes it choose a lane ... braided channels wandering across a gravel bed wide enough to lose a bus in. Every spring melt the river redraws the map, and the road crew gets to find out where it went this time.

Wide braided glacial river crossing a gravel floodplain in Denali National Park. Multiple shallow channels of grey, silt-laden meltwater weave between exposed gravel and cobble bars. Green willow and shrub line both banks, giving way to rolling tundra hills and the darker peaks of the Alaska Range foothills under a heavy overcast sky. A metal viewing-platform railing is visible at lower left, with an eroded cut bank on the right.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 26/06/2026

#Motorcycle #Motosky trip from Anacortes Washington to Hoh Rainforest & back home. A couple of ferry rides, blue sky & nice weather. View from Washington Park in Anacortes: gandalfddi.github.io...

A rocky shoreline in Washington Park, Anacortes, with rugged stone formations in the foreground leading down to a calm blue bay. Evergreen forest lines the curving coastline under a clear, bright blue sky on a sunny day.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 21/06/2026

Latest Meme's added #Motorcycle #Motosky : gandalfddi.github.io...

A black‑and‑white photo of a rider on a vintage‑style motorcycle cruising down a suburban street. The rider wears a helmet, sunglasses, gloves, a leather jacket, jeans, and boots, with one hand raised in a casual gesture. The motorcycle’s tank has “HARRY” painted on it. Overlaid text reads: “Retirement means I have time to do whatever I want - mostly riding past people who are in meetings.”

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 18/06/2026

Riding the edge of Hells Canyon, July 2023 - deeper than the Grand Canyon and twice as wild. Nothing but heat, horizon, and a Harley 2005 Road King that never complains. #Motorcycle #Motosky #Harley #Nature #Photography www.fs.usda.gov/r06/...

A fully loaded cruiser motorcycle parked on a roadside pullout overlooking Hells Canyon. Saddlebags and camping gear are strapped to the rear seat. The background shows rugged, steep canyon walls with patches of green vegetation under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 05/06/2026

May 14, 2020 — Astoria–Megler Bridge viewed from the pullout south of the Columbia River, watching a weather front sweep across the span: www.bing.com/maps/se...

A wide coastal panorama showing the Astoria–Megler Bridge in the distance under a dramatic sky. Dark storm clouds move across the river toward the bridge while lighter sky remains to the left. The foreground includes a grassy pullout area bordered by a chain‑link fence, with trees framing both sides of the image and low landmasses visible across the water.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 31/05/2026

Oahu Sunset Beach Park January 2025 #Nature #Photography www.hawaiiyeah.com/o...

Sandy beach in the foreground, palm trees to the left and right, the pacific ocean stretches out in front of you with blue skies and a few clouds up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/05/2026

There is a difference between riding a #Motorcycle #Motosky responsibly and being an idiot. Luckily with a #Motorcycle the problem is usually self correcting ...

Motorcycle Meme of a Person standing up on a motorcycle while doing a wheelie, quote:
Common Sense Is Not Gift It Is A Punishment. Because You Have To Deal With Everyone Who Doesn't Have It - Anonymous

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/05/2026

Grand View Point Overlook in Canyonlands National Park Once the pavement ends, you stand over 6,000 feet up staring at a rugged, vast wilderness carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers that completely steals your breath away: gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #Nature #Photogtaphy #NPS

A wide panoramic vista of deep canyon gorges and towering red rock cliffs under a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds at Grand View Point in Canyonlands National Park.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 24/05/2026

New #Motorcycle #Motosky memes up: gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_m... My favorite of this batch, staring into reality & thinking about what is important in this short time we exist on this planet

Two people on the right side with their motorcycle on the left outlined by the ocean and sky with the sun setting over the ocean

You will die, you are not special, the people who hurt you will probably never apologize, hard work doesn't always pay off, love is not always returned, and the universe is not arranging itself around your story.

Your Motorcycle will always love you. GO RIDE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 16/05/2026

Rode my #Motorcycle #Motosky to Palouse Falls, May 11, 2026. If you visit you have to go in the spring because the falls dry up later. 2ish miles of hard pack / gravel. Didn't drop the bike :-). #Nature #Photography parks.wa.gov/find-pa...

Palouse Falls is in the middle of the picture, the canyon and the canyon walls it carved out is to the left and right front, a pool of water is in the center of the picture with the Palouse River exiting to the right of the picture. Blue skies up above with sun rays coming down. High Plateau is in the upper middle of the picture

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/05/2026

Northern Coast of #Scotland, August 2014 — somewhere along the Assynt coast, where the heather drops straight into turquoise water. One of those places that stays with you long after the road trip ends. #Nature #Photography

A small turquoise bay on Scotland’s northern coast, surrounded by steep rocky hills covered in green ferns and heather. A narrow strip of white sand curves around the inlet, and a single boat is anchored offshore. The scene feels remote and rugged, with cliffs and cloudy skies in the distance.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 30/04/2026

Pulled over in the Snoqualmie Valley. Cascades on the horizon, pasture in front, bike still warm. Some views earn the stop. 🏍️ #Motorcycle #Mototsky #Nature #Photography

First-person view from a stopped motorcycle on a rural road. The rider's shadow stretches across the asphalt in the foreground; the bike's right mirror, handlebar, and windscreen are visible at the edge of the frame. Beyond the road, a wide green pasture extends to a cluster of red and white barns and farmhouses. Snow-capped Cascade mountains rise on the horizon under a clear blue sky. Overlaid text reads: "My Soul Connects To Nature As Though It Has Come Home Again."

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