Gophers and Cheese

Last month, my father and I took a 5-day motorcycle trip to the Gunflint Trail to ride, relax, and do some fishing.  If you're not familiar, the Gunflint Trail is way up in the northeastern tip of Minnesota.  You basically ride north, past Duluth, along Lake Superior until you reach Grand Marais (not far from the Canadian border) and then ride northwest along the trail.  It's a beautiful area of the state and it was my first time there. We had a great time and I'll share a bunch of photos from the trip over a series of posts. Here's a map of the direct route taking I-35.  It's about 300 miles or 6 hours if you take that route. View Larger Map We came back that way in one day but we broke the ride up into 2 days.  Day one, we headed due north and rode around Lake Mille Lacs before cutting east and stopping for the day in Duluth.  Day two was a more leisurely ride up to our lodge on the Gunflint.  Days 3 and 4 were spent around the lodge. ...

Heading up to Duluth today.  I plan to visit Aerostich and hopefully buy some serious riding pants.  I typically wear jeans when I ride (sometimes chaps over them and/or long underwear under them when it's really cold) and I've been lucky so far.  I just know Levi's with no padding won't protect me much in the event something ever goes wrong.  From what I've seen in their catalog and on the website, I am really interested in their AD1 pants but also plan to check out the original Darien pants and the Protekt riding jeans.  I may also pick up another pair of gloves from them.