Gophers and Cheese

Nope, this post has nothing to do with college basketball... the blog turns SIXTEEN years old today.  The blog is old enough to drive by itself now.  It could have gotten its learner's permit last year.  Crazy.  It's grown up so fast.

The blog turns 15 years old today!!!  1,370 blogposts featuring over 25,000 photos, and over 3,500 Instagram posts  (usually re-posted on my Facebook page too) make Gophers and Cheese the world's premiere rodent & dairy themed motorcycle & van blog focusing on events right here in Minnesota & Wisconsin.  As always, thanks for stopping by.

The blog became a smart-ass teenager last year and I failed to call that out but today marks 14 years since this rodent & dairy themed motorcycle & van blog started.   1,300 blogposts containing over 20,000 photos later, it's still going.  No ads, no sponsors, no merch, no income streams, only expenses...but continuing to do it anyway... like an insane person.  Thanks for stopping by.

The blog is 12 years old today!  While I haven't been posting much content here, I did just update the 2022 Events Calendar .  I hope to hit quite a few motorcycle and van events this year.  My current focus is getting my new-to-me 1978 Dodge Tradesman ready to roll.  I bought it in the fall and it's been a fun winter project so far with lots more to do.  It's about 100X better than the first van I owned .  If you wanna see pics, follow along on Instagram .

Gophers and Cheese is 11 years old today.  I probably should have made a bigger deal for the 10th but, you know... pandemic.  Stay safe out there, keep looking forward to good times ahead, and don't lose your sense of humor.  The fact you're reading a rodent & dairy-themed motorcycle blog is a clear sign that hope is not lost. I've been pretty bad at blogging over the last few years.  I still went to a lot of shows and took lots of photos (except last year) so, over the coming weeks (months?) I will dip into my photo archives and share photos from some of the shows that I never blogged about.  Far be it from me to deny someone out there the thrill of saying "hey look, some random dude took a picture of my bike and put it on the Internet."  I doubt I'll get through all of them before getting burnt out on photo editing and blogging again but we'll see how it goes.

Gophers and Cheese is 6 years old today!!! Sometimes it's amazing what a difference one year makes.  Since last year: I've had 2 features on Chop Cult (soon to be 3) Combined followers on Instagram / Facebook / Twitter have more-than-doubled My photography continues to improve and I recently upgraded my camera, bought new lenses, and got a new cell phone I bought my 3rd motorcycle (2003 XL883R) I had my first (and hopefully last) motorcycle accident I've received legit press passes to 2 big events I bought a van I sold the van I helped promote the first-ever Moto Mania dirt track event I started getting back into radio control cars People continue to visit the blog even though blogs are supposedly dead THANKS FOR VISITING!!! Gopher photo © Angela Stanton , used with permission.

Gophers and Cheese is five years old today!!! Stats : 5 years 989 blog posts 8,000+ original photos 268,000+ blog pageviews (not counting all the views on Chop Cult) - Thanks for visiting!!! Nearly 600 followers across Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter Over 900 posts on Instagram that are primarily original photos and typically different from what is on the blog 1 photographer, 1 photo editor, 1 blogger, 1 social media guy, 1 sticker designer, 1 sticker sales guy, 1 sticker packer & shipper, and 1 guy to handle e-mails... and all those guys are me. :) 5 years is a long time so I'm going to take a few minutes and reflect on some key milestones that I've experienced over that time and thank a lot of people.  It's a blog.  You should expect some text once in a while. 2006 and the MSF course A few years before I started the blog, I got into motorcycling.  I've been interested as long as I can remember but I never really did anything about it until t...

To celebrate the blog's 4th birthday, all stickers and t-shirts are on sale in The Cheese Shop for a very limited time!!! Visit the store here: http://gophersandcheese.bigcartel.com/ The sale runs now through midnight (CST) on 3/31/2014. T-shirts: Regularly $15.00 each , Sale $12.00 each Assorted Stickers: Regularly $1.50 each , Sale $1.00 each Premium Stickers: Regularly $2.50 each , Sale $2.00 each Logo Stickers: Regularly $1.00 each , Sale $0.75 each Prices shown above do not include shipping.  Quantities limited.  Sale does not apply to eBay listings. Assorted stickers:

The blog is four years old today!!!  It's getting very close to having 1,000 posts and 200,000 page views.  This should be a big year!  As always, thanks for visiting!

Gophers and Cheese is 3 years old today!  The blog currently contains about 600 posts and I would guess 3,000-4,000 original photos (but I'm not going to count).  Thanks for visiting!!!

Gophers and Cheese turns 2 years old today!  With 445 posts and thousands of original photos, it's still going strong and I'm still having fun writing it.  Thanks for visiting!!!

It's my blog's first birthday!  I started Gophers and Cheese back on March 24th, 2010.  One year, 234 posts, and about 1,400 original photos later, it's still here and going strong.  Thanks for visiting!!!