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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 29/09/2026

At least it's light enough to easily pull it out.

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

You are welcome. I will try to get some pictures out in the next few weeks. I will indeed let you know, you will be at the top of the list for when I post. As for the ride I would be more than happy to.

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

Lots of twisties on a bike was the plan, and the plan worked. It was a good trip. LOTS of long lonely roads in the SouthWest. I did question some of my life choices during the trip but in the end it was all good :-) "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" - Nietzsche

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

It will probably take me at least a month to put it all together but here is just ONE ride I took of many. Death Valley, Artists Drive: youtu.be/eRoQG_fS-Mw

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Death Valley Artists Drive 20260918

YouTube video by GandalfDDI

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

Just the pictures in nature that I have taken. It is a mystery but I have stopped trying to figure out why some people are the way they are

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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 · 18/09/2026

Ouch, yeah that's a long ride

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 18/09/2026

That sucks, sorry to hear it

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 18/09/2026

How many hours was the ride?

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 17/09/2026

It is my Zen. Especially riding down a "lonesome highway" mountains off in the distance with no cars in sight

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/09/2026

And what was the answer? Enquiring minds want to know 😎

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/09/2026

Beautiful #Motorcycle #Motosky but... "Pricing has yet to be announced, but something in excess of the AMB 001’s $100,000 starting price seems likely." Ouch

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/09/2026

But it WILL be SPECTACULAR 😂😅🤣😎

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/09/2026

... It's becoming a matter of WHICH kills us all first, not if...

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

Thank you ☺️. I have more ...

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

Looks legit 😂🤣😅👌... And yeah I have been getting those also

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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 · 07/09/2026

That was an odd one but I grew to like it mostly because of the crew they assembled

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

Sounds like it is just moving the time frame from the past to a future date...

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

Have you tried r/shorthand yet? Scan a high resolution few lines, they might be able to help

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

... Always have to have acceptable losses to reach your goals 🤣😅😂😎

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

... Not convinced that the AI is the root cause of the confusion and bafflement..

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

You know they all have their own personalities, you just getting to KNOW each other 😂😅🤣

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

Sorry to hear that 😕. Sending hope.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

Ouch. Long day in the saddle

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

"Why are you getting so upset, just calm down" 🤣😅😂 (as if that ever helped 🤗)

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/09/2026

I always loved Nagel's art, every piece was excellent

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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 · 30/08/2026

... And it will end badly. These are not the 'Droids you should be looking for.

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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 · 20/08/2026

Best surgery I ever had. Never needing contacts or glasses again was amazing.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/08/2026

"Did you try rebooting the router?" (Asked who knows how many times after explaining I was a network engineer for over 20 years ...)

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/08/2026

That's what #Motorcycle riding is all about :-)

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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 · 12/08/2026

My Triumph Tiger 2024 is amazing. 105 DegF temps riding through the desert & no issues at all.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 11/08/2026

This is how the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. Diane Vaughan's argument in The Challenger Launch Decision is the uncomfortable one: this was not villains gambling with lives. It was ordinary people following rules that had drifted, one accepted anomaly at a time.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 11/08/2026

Here we haven't had a good deluge for a while. But fall is headed our way & we will get all the rain we could ever want

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 11/08/2026

Ouch. Yeah, that is "only if you absolutely have to" ride weather

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

Readiness bar: can you double-pivot into a segmented subnet without looking up the syntax? ligolo-ng or chisel, cold. That's where most people lose the exam, not on the individual boxes. GOAD is free for the AD half. Screenshot everything as you go. The report is scored.

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

Then take the 2x12 split, not the single 24. Schedule them 2–4 days apart. You will want long enough to sleep and clean up notes, short enough you still remember the topology. Draft the report in the gap. It's due 7 days after your last session and inside the 30-day range window.

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

Suggestion: first check whether that 30 days is the voucher clock or the exam range clock. The range window only starts when you activate it. Don't activate until you're actually ready. A free voucher plus a $499 retake isn't free.

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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 · 10/08/2026

It is the world we live in indeed and no it doesn't make it right. As the Stoics say, you push, you say it's wrong, you treat people better than the norm when it's your turn to be on the other side. What you let go of is the outcome, not the obligation.

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