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A Father and Daughter Adventure Ride – Making memories and cultivating a life style.
It’s March 2021 and there is a foot of snow outside my window. I won’t complain, we need the moisture. The unexpected snow fall did however alter my plans to go riding. But the interruption gave me time to reflect on a dual sport adventure ride I was able to...
Keep Going – Adventure Ahead
Recently, I took my friend, Nate, on a dual sport bike ride in the Badlands of Utah. Nate had ridden street bikes but had no off road riding experience. He was, however, a very skilled mountain bike rider, so I figured he would catch on quickly. After a 30 minute...
Five Reasons Fitness Improves Your Riding
Fitness is important for Off Road Adventure Riding. We all know exercise and good fitness are important, however, sometimes we lack motivation to exercise. I know I have this problem. For me, having specific fitness goals helps keep me motivated. For years, I enjoyed...
“Is my bike okay?” and Other Off-Roading Lessons
In preparation for the RockyTrax adventure tour season, I ordered some hats and shirts with our logo printed on them. As a joke, two of the shirts (one for me and my wife) had a question in upside down letters. The question asked: “Is my bike okay?” It’s a...
Did Waylon Jennings and “Luckenbach, Texas” Change My Life?
March 22, 2019 When I tell people I left a successful career of 26 years in the corporate world to start an outdoor adventure company offering camper, ATV, and dirt bike rentals as well as guided dirt bike tours, most often I get asked, “What made you do that”? I...
Vacation Drama = Lasting Memories
In the movie, there is a very funny scene involving RV septic systems, and the family nicknames their RV “The Rolling Turd” – I swear there must have been a Hollywood writer witnessing our trip and getting movie ideas!
The RockyTrax Family
Our Family Gavin, our oldest, kind of started this crazy journey by being the first member of our family to have an interest in dirt biking. Having grown up on ranches my whole life, I was partial to horses, but when we moved from town to the country, I knew we would...
Disclaimer
A Brutally Honest Disclaimer Here is a brutally honest disclaimer you likely won’t hear from a customer oriented business: “The customer is not always right” and “There is no such thing as a 100% satisfaction guarantee.” You might be thinking that if I’m trying to...
What is Adventure
For some, adventure is back packing in the Himalayas or adventure biking across Asia. Still for others, it’s more instantaneous, like sky diving or bungee jumping. Few live in these extremes. What about the rest of us? What does adventure look like? Maybe it’s taking...